Difference Between Printer's Waste And Expensive Errors

If you notice, I did go back and added the sarcasm simiile for similarly challenged readers.

Me, I am fine until my crystal ball goes in for repairs.

Responding to littbarski re: printer's waste. From a retired printer.

Printing paper can either be purchased in sheets or long rolls.

When a large production run is completed using roll paper, there is often unused paper left on the paper roll spool. This left-over paper is usually to short to be used cost effectively and is considered waste.

However, at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing (BEP), due to security reasons, every inch of paper has to be accounted for, even though the paper at the end of the rolls was considered waste. For them, printing additional stamps on this waste was cost effective.

To differentiate the production run of coil stamps from the end run of waste printed stamps, a side bar was added to the printing plates which printed the words: COIL WASTE on each pane of stamps that were to be issued to post offices for retail sale.