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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cwtokenman, post: 301002, member: 2100&quot;]I think the saying &quot;a chain is only as strong as its weakest link&quot; applies very well for this situation. What does it matter how perfect/consistent the actual grading portion of the process is if the label maker(s) screws up a fair amount of the time? If no one checks or verifies the labelling step of the process, and I would certainly be surprised if all labels are reviewed due to the extremely obvious nature of some of the errors that I have seen, is the resulting product really any different than having graders performing at a shoddy level and the label maker(s) being extremely accurate. Of course, it is easy and convenient to blame the label maker, that way the graders can still look good. </p><p><br /></p><p>I know if I were in charge of a grading company, I certainly would not allow a situation to continue where some low paid label maker could make my final product look bad, especially when the essence of my business IS the information contained on that label. A bad label negates all work provided up to that point. While I agree that most very obvious errors are due to the labelling process, it makes me wonder how many more labelling errors have been made that are not quite so obvious.</p><p><br /></p><p>Maybe it is just the nature of the work that I have done, but having been involved in many engineering endeavors (with many years as a checker) in industrial sectors that have required our machines to operate at reject rates at or below 1/1000 of one percent, and repeatable part dimensions within a tolerance range of 4 millionths of an inch, I know that is possible to virtually eliminate all errors for something as simple as label production.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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