Title: "A Word Error, The Change of Fate of a Thousand Taiwan Calendars".
On the stage of life, mistakes are everywhere, some are slight and ridiculous, and some make people want to cry without tears. Everyone makes mistakes at some point, and that's the norm of human nature. However, mistakes vary in size, some can be remedied, and some seem irreparable. Just like a man in Henan accidentally printed "Lichun" as "Li Chun" when printing the desk calendar, this seemingly small mistake led to the fate of 10,000 desk calendars facing the fate of abandonment.
In this story, the mistake is not a spur of the moment, but a design error in the production of the document. The company did not discover this fatal mistake until the calendar was bound into a book. And this unfortunate mistake linked multiple links such as design, plate making, and printing into an irreparable disaster.
From design, plate making, printing, cutting to binding, errors can occur at every step. Practitioners in the printing industry know that a small mistake can be magnified into a fatal mistake in the number of prints. This mistake is obviously that a word on the design draft was mistakenly typed by the intelligent input method, and the follow-up processes such as plate making and printing were not discovered in time, resulting in the gradual deepening of the error and pressing step by step.
This mistake is not an easy task, especially when the calendar has already been bound and it takes more money to remake it. Therefore, the company urgently summoned employees to work overtime and pasted the stickers printed with the correct words "Lichun" one by one to save the disaster. However, even the stickers were printed crookedly, which made the whole remediation process extremely difficult.
Although this mistake is a common occurrence in the printing industry, the pain and bitterness can only be truly felt by those who have experienced it firsthand. When a design goes wrong, it can involve the entire printing process and mean the team has to pay for the error. In this case, the company had to bear the additional costs, and at the same time, the employees also paid for the mistakes of their colleagues and worked overtime overnight to remedy them.
Interestingly, the timing of the discovery of this error is crucial. If any link in the early stage is found and remediated in time, the problem may be better solved. You can change a word when you find a design, you can resend a plate when you find it, and you can reprint some pages when you find it. However, this mistake was not discovered until the last step, making it impossible to disassemble the desk calendar, and the error could only be covered up with stickers. This loss is not just a monetary loss, but a kind of irony of the entire team's efforts.
For this incident, many netizens have proposed solutions. Some suggest selling all desk calendars to people with the surname "Li Chun", while others advocate putting small reminders on the desk calendars so that customers can find fault with them themselves. These humorous yet practical suggestions suggest that people should be good at resolving embarrassment and face problems with a more relaxed mindset when facing mistakes.
Fortunately, this time the customer was relatively tolerant of the wrong way to deal with it, allowing the use of self-adhesive stickers to remedy the situation. However, if the customer's attitude is more "difficult", the company may have to remake 10,000 desk calendars, which will be a huge financial loss.
People always grow by making mistakes, but whether they can learn from their mistakes is a question that everyone needs to think about. Careful work can greatly reduce the chance of making mistakes, and for those in the printing industry, it is necessary to be vigilant at all times. This incident undoubtedly taught the printing industry a profound lesson, and also reminded every practitioner to maintain a high degree of attention in their work and prevent problems before they occur.
Overall, although the story is full of absurdity and helplessness, it also reflects the difficulties and risks faced by the printing industry in the production process. Every mistake is a painful experience, but it is these experiences that make people more cautious in order to avoid similar mistakes happening again.