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Originally Posted by Road Rat
Packaging is a total waste of BILLIONS of pounds of paper and plastic (that you need a sharp knife to cut).
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that is only the end product you see. every different work order we run use around 800 sheets of paper getting the registration(all colors to line up) and the color right. depending on the size of the run, we may throw out another 100 to 500 sheets. every time the press shuts down for any reason takes 30 at least 30 sheets for quality useable labels. we are pretty good and average about 7.5% waste per job. we have 3 presses, each averaging about 120,000 sheets a day. so we throw out roughly 27,000 sheets a day. which works out to 7,020,000 sheets a year just from us. our sheets range in size from 19" to 28" wide and 35 to 40" long. we print on plastic, metallized and paper substrates.
changes in labels mean trial runs which waste paper. i've printed labels that, after seeing them on the bottle, have been altered yet again and never see a store...sometimes minor changes are made without the consumer even realizing there was a change.
and we joke about how picky the customers are when the label just ends up in the garage anyway...