You'd be amazed how many printing mistakes make it through to the final print.
To avoid these mistakes, it's always best to use a professional printing service, like
instantprint. Check out our Top 10 embarrassing printing mistakes:
- In a headline about Mississippi, one American newspaper spelt the name of the state as 'Missippi'. Unfortunately the article was about literacy...
- A woman who thought she had won £80,000 on a National Lottery Scratchcard had actually won £2. She needed a number eight to win, but actually had a three which looked like an eight, due to the patterned background.
- The Daily Mail once reported that Kate Winslet was 28, when she was actually 34. This mistake might seem harmless, but it caused people to lose faith in the accuracy of the paper.
- Macy's once published the wrong price of a necklace in their brochure, stating it was $47 instead of $1,500. The necklace sold out (at the wrong price) which must have cost Macy's a huge sum of money.
- In November 2013, the Cricket Association of Bengal hung up a huge poster in support of cricket player Sachin Tendulkar but spelt his name wrong as 'Sachine'.
- In a poster for Spideman 2, Kirsten Dunst's arm is in a ridiculous position. Her arm would have to be unnaturally long to reach round Spiderman like it appears to in the poster.
- Birmingham City Council recently printed thousands of leaflets that featured the skyline of Birmingham, Alabama. Obviously somebody had been asked to Google a photo of the Birmingham skyline and hadn't done their research. The council insisted that there had been no mistake and the leaflet was supposed to show a generic cityscape... Local media and residents were dubious of these claims.
- Perhaps the oldest ever printing error occurred in the 1631 reprint of the King James Bible. The Wicked Bible, as it came to be known, told readers: 'Thou shalt commit adultery'.
- TIME magazine printed a front cover that featured a voting machine and its shadow, only the shadow was all wrong. The magazine was ridiculed for its mistake.
- Fashion adverts in magazines commit printing crimes so often that it's impossible to name them all. Anyone using Photoshop should ask everyone in the office to take a look and tell them if the image looks normal or not, for example are there any extra limbs, missing belly buttons or freakishly long necks?
