Quality Vision

In pharmaceutical packaging, one defect in critical copy is rejectable ("reject on one"). "If I am producing two million folding cartons and I break copy on the dosage information, that would be considered a critical defect and the whole two million lot would be rejected," Siragusa explains.

"If you're running a press at 18,000 sph, while it's relatively easy to keep track of color, there is still a lot of text and potential defects like hickeys, ink spots, paper dust in the substrate, etc.) that put us at risk. Nosco's job is to catch those situations internally, contain them, and get the bad product out," says Haraf.