Printing in China
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- luckyorphan0
^ No sweat, gramme.
Quick story: We're in the middle of a total packaging design overhaul because our overseas vendors can't get their shit together. We require that our boxes be shrink-wrapped with slip sheets and placed on either plastic or fumigated wood palettes.
What did we get recently? Loose boxes with no shrink wrap or slip sheets, stacked and packed tightly, and directly in the container. Each set is on a thin piece of corrugate that is pushed into the container by a forklift (in order to get more per container, we're told).
Thus, when they finally arrive state-side – or worse, in Europe – they have spent weeks at sea rubbing up against each other. Most boxes emerged from a recent shipment with barely visible product images, and text that was largely missing from the box. We had to re-print and package all boxes at the destination cities.
We fired that broker, and are giving that vendor (one of three that service us at the moment) one more try to make it right. Good times.
- Vivá la globalización!luckyorphan
- Wow. What a nightmare. Hope it isn't breaking the bank to fix.gramme