Gang Run Printing - Disadvantages

Disadvantages

• Lack of paper stock choice--you must choose the paper stock common to all the projects on the same sheet
• Lack of color control--color balance on a gang print run is difficult to maintain. Since so many other print projects are placed side by side, a gang print project is harder to control for color quality issues
• Ghosting--because an adjacent project may have a heavy solid color that may affect your final result
• Hard to accommodate custom print quantities--normally
• Reprints cost more--rerunning a print job from the sample plate would mean reproducing unwanted copies of adjacent projects sharing the same sheet or plate
• Harder to get custom colors or cut--by nature of the press run, it is harder to get custom spot colors, varnish effects, or coatings.
• Timing issues--gang printing customers normally need to be more patient with their client, since it takes more time and effort to coordinate all the jobs through the singer viewer.