Secure to the Max

It may be a brave new soft-proofing world outside. But inside the realm of pharmaceutical packaging, it’s the hard copy that counts. “We do electronic approvals under strict rules,” Fowler says, “but we like to work in a hard-copy world, and we check and double-check that hard copy for accuracy. And, we don’t take electronic files from just anybody.” When the price of a printing error could be as high as going out of business for a pharmaceutical manufacturer, Fowler adds, version control is also a huge concern. “We control that quite a bit,” she says. “I have to make sure I have only one version of a file on the system at any one time.” This is not always as simple as it sounds, since “our customers don’t always tell us when they’ve revised or obsoleted copy.”