GQ, the UK's best-selling men's magazine, has 32 pages missing from some copies of the January edition. The Guardian reports a spokesman as saying: "The printer used by GQ confirmed that the omission and subsequent duplication of a section of the January issue was caused by human error in the bindery."
Something similar happened earlier this year with my magazine; the pages in a small number of copies were somehow assembled in the wrong order. Think, 1, 2, 33, 34, etc. In our case we only discovered rogue copies but there could have been a dozen or so that slipped through.
In Thailand the quality control process, certainly at our printing company and at those I have met, consists of the physical checking finished copies. That human element means there is always the possibility of mistakes.
GQ estimates 10 of its 130,000 print run might have missing pages. I wonder how long it might be before those copies start appearing on eBay?
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