Rough cuts and grading standards

Originally Posted by Wid_Conroy

I don't agree that penalizing centering and not cut is arbitrary. If a factory uses a wire to cut cards, it is not avoidable, it's just how they did it at the time. Centering, on the other hand, is a characteristic distributed randomly. They were not able to precisely measure all the time, and sometimes it worked well, other times not. Cards should certainly be penalized for bad centering.

Even though it’s a random characteristic it’s very common and impossible to keep sheets perfect on large running offset printing presses. Even though they check sheets regularly throughout the run sheets get by with imperfections before the press can be adjusted. I’ve press checked thousands of jobs over my thirty year career and like trimming it’s common to the printing process.