Just-In-Time Finishing — Finishing Touches

Spoilage and waste can be a problem with personalized, one-to-one marketing products, because a mistake in the finishing stage can mean the entire process needs to be repeated. But that is less of a fear at KIT Packaging because it does its finishing work off-line.

"Spoilage is so minimal when you do it off-line," Gagnon reports. "We've been led to believe that there is fairly high spoilage on webs when you have print head problems. We avoid that by going off-line because if a print head doesn't print, we only lose a sheet or two. It's become a non-issue for us."