Scott 711 - Proof Readers Are No Longer Needed.

Hi guys...Just posting this to humour more than anything else.

Take a look at this Scott 711...There are three stages to this misalignment...In the olden days a PRG (Proof Reader Guy) would check stamp quality and alignment before printing off sheets.

Now they have let the PRG go and hired a GEG (Good Enough Guy) instead...haha

Hi Robert,
Agreed.

Over my lifetime I developed hundreds of Inspection Drawings. These were done as part of the design and development process in the Engineering Department but used by other Departments such as Purchasing, Receiving, and QA. Purchasing would send them out to various venders to get quotes but venders also used them to understand they had to deliver. And of course Receiving Department and QA used them to inspect new shipments; anything that did not meet or exceed the specifications in the drawings were rejected and sent back to the vender. (Read as; there is always a lot of these drawings floating around.)

So for example, I made many Inspection Drawings for product labels. These would define the correct Pantone colors and call out criteria like the maximum amount of offset that would be acceptable. During incoming Receiving, they would use a color chip standard, under defined ambient light conditions, to match the colors and they would also measure any possible printing offset.

I would think that this kind of drawing would be critical to flyspeccers and other EFO collectors since it would be the definitive resource used to ID what was, and was not, considered 'correct' and/or 'normal'.

So my question is this, has anyone ever seen an Inspection Drawing or similar document for stamp production?
Don

So cool Don, and I have never had the opportunity to see any inspection drawings what so ever...There in itself lays the reason for proofreading.

In high school printing class we ALWAYS proof read everything..Mind you we did not print massive sheets as Canada Post produced, BUT we kept quality, alignment, etc. all the time.

Thats why Canada Post believes in GOOD ENOUGH...Good enough for stamps to be used for mailing purposes, but not for us as collectors.

Robert

That set is well known for colour shifts, especially the 10c value. I suspect it is because most people did not have a clue what the stamp depicted. Is it a flower, an exotic deep sea creature, or an alien's brain? Perhaps the QC inspector did not know either, so had no clue how the colours should line up and let anything pass .

The way I look at it BeeSee, there is a stamp colour..A stamp outline design..No excuse to not match them up...They just dont care any more..Money drives their process..Not accuracy.

Robert

Not sure how a couple of misregistered stamps condemns the entire operation. A better sampling technique is required to conclude whether quality control is slipping or not.

Hi John..I know what you are saying, but there are LOTS of Canadian stamps misaligned...Lots...Quality control is not as good as I think it should be..Just saying.

Robert