Importance of Print Inspection In Print and Packaging Business

The art of packaging is not complete until after it had been printed. Therefore, print inspection is important so as to meet client satisfaction. Clients have very high demands as to what is supposed to be placed in their packaging.

They expect full compliance with the packaging in their order. Quality control should be important to anyone in the print and packaging business. The smallest error and inconsistency can lead to serious consequences.

Mistakes that happen during the printing process do not happen all the time but print and packaging companies should understand that the risk already exists and quality is now dependent on the print inspection team to make sure that errors are zeroed out.

Case Study:

For example, a client from the pharmaceutical industry orders packaging. Someone from the printing house makes a mistake. All it takes is a single mistake and the design from the pharma code, the lack of a dot in the description or in the Braile, or the smallest mistake in the text can be rejected by the client’s quality assurance department and the entire batch will be returned by the client.

When mistakes are made, the company blames the printing house, the printing house blames the quality department. The case can take weeks before it can be resolved and it may cause termination of a contract and lose on the side of the print and packaging company.

Quality assurance and thorough print inspection is very critical and therefore must not be taken lightly as it can make or break a project.

How to Avoid Mistakes in the printing process

What is the simplest method to verify the accuracy of the print material? Is it safe to hire a person to manually check for printing errors? While this method is feasible, it is time-consuming and the risk of human error is higher.

With today’s growing technology, a solution to check for possible print errors had been introduced to the market. These devices are designed to check for accuracy, to protect the company from damage losses and corporate trust but rather build production efficiency and more clients for the company. These devices are known to work at the speed of the way processing the company is going and therefore it is cost-effective, fast, and reliable.

Print Inspection machines are programmed according to the client’s provided requirements. To further ensure 100% accuracy, first print is tested and manually checked for errors. After first print inspection had been done, then printing process of the whole batch is good to pass client quality assurance team.