{"id":17118,"date":"2019-03-13T01:44:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-13T05:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/?p=17118"},"modified":"2019-03-13T01:49:20","modified_gmt":"2019-03-13T05:49:20","slug":"asq-bungles-print-quality-for-ahem-quality-handbook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/asq-bungles-print-quality-for-ahem-quality-handbook\/","title":{"rendered":"ASQ Bungles Print Quality for (Ahem) Quality Handbooks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Seems the American Society for Quality hasn’t quite figured out that whole “quality” thing yet, despite claiming to be the world’s authority on it. Put your meta-irony shields up for this one.<\/p>\n

One ASQ member reported<\/a> that the ASQ’s Certified Quality Engineer Handbook (4th Edition)<\/em><\/strong> includes entire pages that can’t be read because of — gasp!<\/em> — quality errors<\/strong> in the printing process. Have a look:<\/p>\n

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At least one reader on Amazon reported<\/a> the same, posting this photo of missing text. This one is particularly hilarious, since the defective text apparently is discussing product defects:<\/p>\n

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Another Amazon reader reported similar printing errors, calling the printing “subpar<\/em>.”<\/p>\n

In response to one complaint, ASQ only offered to give scans of the corrupted pages. That’s, um, a … unique … way to address the issue.<\/p>\n

Other recent ASQ Quality Press publications fare similarly. The reader reviews<\/a> for the Certified Quality Improvement Associate Handbook (3rd Edition)<\/em><\/strong> included one 2018 comment saying, “Book was water damaged and smelled like mold.”\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

For the Certified Six Sigma Green Belt Handbook (2nd Edition)<\/em>,<\/strong> one reader also reported<\/a> print problems, saying, “There are multiple blank pages that are missing content. I counted 8 in the first 38.”<\/em><\/p>\n

If you thought the American Society for Quality might have mastered, you know, quality<\/strong> <\/em>in their own products, you’d be laughably mistaken. Quality is for other people.<\/p>\n

Who wants to bet they had it printed in China?<\/p>\n

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In yet another embarrassment for ASQ, recent books published by its Quality Press imprint are rife with print quality problems.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17122,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","mc4wp_mailchimp_campaign":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[18,987],"class_list":["post-17118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinion","tag-asq","tag-quality-press","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17118"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17126,"href":"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17118\/revisions\/17126"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}