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That sounds like the easiest thing in the world to source elsewhere on short notice. High-quality printing services exist literally everywhere in the world. Wha

That sounds like the easiest thing in the world to source elsewhere on short notice. High-quality printing services exist literally everywhere in the world. What am I missing?

Dalewyn 4y ago
To make a completely uneducated guess, probably recertifications from a change in bill of materials? These are medical drugs we're talking about.
- HeyLaughingBoy 4y ago
  A change like that shouldn't be a big deal. A meeting to decide whether or not it constitutes a Design Change (it doesn't!) and if the new insert needs to be Validated again (likely not) and you're pretty much done from a Compliance standpoint and on to Vendor Qualification. My guess is that the problem is more likely to be finding a vendor that can print/cut to your specification at the scale you need and, critically, who can produce it on your schedule. Any capable printer is likely already booked solid for months.
  - bombcar 4y ago
    If it was a real problem I dare say they could ship with loose leaf pages detailing everything nobody reads.
    - HeyLaughingBoy 4y ago
      Assuming they fit into the existing manufacturing process, sure. But that still doesn't solve the problem of finding a printer to print those millions of pages.
user-extended 4y ago
It's not as cheap as the stockholders want it to be in the US.
- gorjusborg 4y ago
  Probably true. Better to keep profit margins up than actually make revenue.
- dr-detroit 4y ago
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MengerSponge 4y ago
It sounds like it should be easy? Do you remember the TP shortage of 2020? That also sounded easy. The scale makes it hard.
- marcosdumay 4y ago
  What makes you think toilet paper manufacture is equivalent to printing?
  - klyrs 4y ago
    It involves a supply of specialty paper.
    - MengerSponge 4y ago
      Ding ding ding! Got it in one
HeyLaughingBoy 4y ago
You're assuming that there are high-quality, high-volume print suppliers with slack time / idle machinery. I wouldn't be so sure. And even then, existing literally everywhere in the world now becomes a problem of finding them.
shlubbert 4y ago
There has actually be a pretty significant general paper shortage over the last two years due to difficulties sourcing the raw materials. Not sure if that's the root cause for the issue mentioned here but I'd bet it contributed to it.

That sounds like the easiest thing in the world to source elsewhere on short notice. High-quality printing services exist literally everywhere in the world. What am I missing?

Dalewyn 4y ago

To make a completely uneducated guess, probably recertifications from a change in bill of materials? These are medical drugs we're talking about.

HeyLaughingBoy 4y ago
A change like that shouldn't be a big deal. A meeting to decide whether or not it constitutes a Design Change (it doesn't!) and if the new insert needs to be Validated again (likely not) and you're pretty much done from a Compliance standpoint and on to Vendor Qualification. My guess is that the problem is more likely to be finding a vendor that can print/cut to your specification at the scale you need and, critically, who can produce it on your schedule. Any capable printer is likely already booked solid for months.
- bombcar 4y ago
  If it was a real problem I dare say they could ship with loose leaf pages detailing everything nobody reads.
  - HeyLaughingBoy 4y ago
    Assuming they fit into the existing manufacturing process, sure. But that still doesn't solve the problem of finding a printer to print those millions of pages.

user-extended 4y ago

It's not as cheap as the stockholders want it to be in the US.

gorjusborg 4y ago
Probably true. Better to keep profit margins up than actually make revenue.
dr-detroit 4y ago
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MengerSponge 4y ago

It sounds like it should be easy? Do you remember the TP shortage of 2020? That also sounded easy. The scale makes it hard.

marcosdumay 4y ago
What makes you think toilet paper manufacture is equivalent to printing?
- klyrs 4y ago
  It involves a supply of specialty paper.
  - MengerSponge 4y ago
    Ding ding ding! Got it in one

HeyLaughingBoy 4y ago

You're assuming that there are high-quality, high-volume print suppliers with slack time / idle machinery. I wouldn't be so sure. And even then, existing literally everywhere in the world now becomes a problem of finding them.

shlubbert 4y ago

There has actually be a pretty significant general paper shortage over the last two years due to difficulties sourcing the raw materials. Not sure if that's the root cause for the issue mentioned here but I'd bet it contributed to it.