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Verify's Advanced Language Capabilities Offer a Comprehensive, All-in-One Multi-Language Inspection Solution for Global Brands
With global brands constantly expanding their reach into new markets, the ability to communicate accurately and effectively across different languages while remaining...
Automating Proofreading to Enhance Regulatory Compliance
In regulatory compliance, a manufacturing change or a health authority request marks the beginning of a meticulous process for your team.
10 Reasons Top Pharma Companies Automate Proofreading with GlobalVision’s ‘Verify’ Platform
In the highly regulated and complex world of pharmaceuticals, accuracy and precision are paramount. Even minor oversights or errors in labeling, packaging, or documentation ...
Reduce Your Carbon Footprint & Boost Sustainability Through Automated Proofreading
Automated Proofreading—A Sustainable Approach to Proofreading That Reduces Carbon Footprint in the European Union and Beyond The current global climate urges sustainability not just in individual aspects of our lives, but also in the ways we conduct business – from European Union (EU) markets and beyond. As individuals […]
10 ChatGPT Prompts to Enhance Pharmaceutical Proofreading
With AI, pharmaceutical companies can now streamline the process of analyzing vast amounts of data and documentation, ensuring compliance with regulatory standards and minimizing errors. ChatGPT, for example, with its natural language processing capabilities, empowers regulatory and quality assurance teams in pharma to leverage AI in simple ways […]
The Verify x Esko WebCenter Integration Automates Proofreading and Inspections for Packaging Artwork
The Verify x Esko WebCenter Integration represents a digital shift in the packaging artwork review process. Verify x Esko WebCenter – An Integration to Unify Your Artwork Management Processes The integration brings together Esko’s WebCenter, a web-based platform specifically tailored for CPG and pharmaceutical corporations to manage all aspects […]
A Quick Guide on How to Compare PDF Files
Today, physical files are becoming less common as digital files slowly replace their use cases and take center stage. Because of this, knowing how to manage these documents efficiently is vital for professionals across various industries. In pharmaceuticals and in similarly regulated industries, PDFs, in particular, stand out […]
7 Reasons Why Pharma Needs Document Comparison Software for Regulatory Proofreading
Why does pharma need document comparison software for their regulatory proofreading? For pharmaceutical companies, keeping documentation compliant with regulations is a top priority. From regulatory submissions to drug labels, promotional materials, and more, every piece of critical content must be meticulously proofread to ensure it adheres to strict […]
Why Regulatory Affairs Teams Need Document Comparison Software in 2024
Why do regulatory affairs teams need document comparison software in 2024? For Regulatory Affairs, where adherence to strict compliance standards and efficient quality control processes are critical, the use of technology to help ease daily workflows has become particularly apparent in the past decade—2024 is expected to be […]
Manual vs. Automated Proofreading: A Comprehensive Guide
One area where companies can largely benefit from automated quality control and proofreading is packaging and labeling. Pristine, error-free packaging and labeling not only increases customer loyalty to your brand, it’s also a necessity, regardless of industry.
How AI Proofreading Will Power the Future of Pharma
The introduction and recent rise of artificial Intelligence (AI) and automation proofreading technology allow pharmaceutical companies to reap significant competitive advantages by streamlining workflows, reducing errors, and getting to market faster for often life-saving drugs.
OCR: Everything You Need to Know About Optical Character Recognition
GlobalVision’s newest, most innovative cloud-based proofreading software, Verify, is currently developing and testing the platform’s OCR capabilities that allow users to inspect flattened text on documents such as promotional material screenshots and supplier proofs by converting the digital images into readable, live text format.
An Introduction to Automated Quality Control
Automated quality control technology like GlobalVision, help businesses get products to market faster without compromising quality. By automating manual tasks that would otherwise take hours to complete, this technology speeds up the entire quality control process and significantly cuts down proofreading time.
Upgrading Your Brand? Streamline Brand Transitions With Document Comparison Software
Upgrading your brand is a complete journey but document comparison software is a solution that makes it that much easier. Not only does it prevent content errors, but it also ensures a seamless transition to new typefaces by automating a good deal of the proofreading process.
How to Choose the Best Proofreading Software For Your Business in 2023
Choosing the right proofreading software can be overwhelming. Thankfully, we’ve provided some key features to look out for to heighten your quality control process and ensure the integrity of your content and products.
Ready for a New Verify Release? 2023.2 is Here
With the latest Verify 2023.2 release, users can expect a heightened and more streamlined automated proofreading experience. This upgraded version comes equipped with new features and capabilities that not only enhance the user experience but also improve the accuracy and efficiency of quality inspections.
What is File Comparison Software?
File comparison software is designed to help users detect changes made to files as they move through revision cycles, ensure consistency, avoid errors, and overall simplify proofreading processes while increasing accuracy and efficiency.
Proofreading Made Easy: A Comprehensive Guide to File Comparison Software
Through its automated technology, file comparison software runs side-by-side comparisons of two files to identify discrepancies and errors in mere seconds. The software then generates a holistic report highlighting all the differences between the two files, allowing users to navigate through the report and correct their content effortlessly.
Introducing Our Latest Release: Verify 2023.1
GlobalVision's Verify is cloud-based proofreading reinvented that ensures error-free content with the utmost ease of use. With Verify’s automated proofreading platform, you can streamline your work processes and produce higher-quality content in record time.
Overcome Your Content Challenges in Cosmetic Labeling to Meet FDA Requirements
Cosmetic manufacturers operate in a highly regulated industry, further complicating the labeling process. Not only do they have to consider branding and marketing guidelines, but they also have to focus on FDA cosmetic labeling requirements, as there are strict rules and regulations behind every cosmetic label.
How to Ease the Labeling Proofreading Process for Medical Devices
A medical device can range from the simplest household item found in everyone’s pantry, like a band-aid, to more complex technology like an x-ray machine. Regardless of its complexity, there is a constant amongst them all. They all need to be tested and approved to meet FDA requirements and compliance.
Use Text Inspection Technology to Keep Up With Global Market Demands
Text inspection technology allows you to not only automate your workflows, but it also relieves the burden of having to rely on outdated methods and technology that will not let your business reach its full potential.
The Everlasting Benefits of Taking Your Proofing Process into the Digital Age
Just as we become more dependent on technology with every passing day, businesses should also take note. Digital transformation is essential for any business that wants to remain relevant and competitive in the market. Automating workflows and processes is the only way to keep up with demand, and relying […]
How Automated Proofreaders can Increase Productivity
To keep up with increasing global consumer demands, most companies in various industries need to create immeasurable amounts of written content. From packaging to digital to marketing, all of this beautifully created content needs to be carefully checked and proofread to ensure that your final product is perfect. […]
Risks of Manual Verification as a Proofreading Method
Before a product reaches the hands of consumers, there are thousands of behind-the-scenes steps, procedures, and inspections that have to be completed to ensure that the final product is perfect. All aspects of the product must be free from error, including the packaging, labeling, and copy. Not a […]
Five Best Proofreading Practices for Business
Top 5 Business Proofreading Practices You’ve spent hours writing your copy, you got every word, sentence, and paragraph to flow perfectly in sync, and you are finally ready to publish your content. Are you confident you checked every last detail to the T? Sure, you […]
The Best Automated Inspection Software for Creative Agencies
The creative process can oftentimes be messy due to its collaborative nature. From the brainstorming phase to the actual execution of ideas, creating content for brands with complex and multi-dimensional requirements is no easy feat. A fragmented creative process can be enough to put a halt to any given project, especially within marketing and creative agencies that include several different departments and strict deadlines.
The Advantages of Automated Pharmaceutical Packaging Inspections
The automated inspection of pharmaceutical packaging has become essential to the day-to-day affairs of companies wishing to attain the efficiency and error-free work that is demanded of them. In addition to the rigorous quality control implemented on the products themselves, it is important to ensure the compliance of packaging and labeling information.
How Automation Streamlines the Quality Control Process
Automation comes in many forms and covers a wide array of modern technologies that can operate without the help of consistent human intervention or supervision. The first benefit that emerges from this is the idea of reducing workloads. Having an automation system or software implemented at various stages of your workflow will allow you to spend more time on other projects and leave you with additional resources.
How Automation Technology Helps Protect Consumer Packaged Goods Brands From Critical Errors
One particular area to which CPG brands must pay close attention is quality control. In the consumer goods industry, the quality of labels and packaging is just as important as the quality of the product inside. These types of labels and packaging components contain product-specific information and suggest critical content that is carefully written and placed in order to protect the end-users.
4 Reasons Why Your Business Needs a Graphics Inspection Tool
Not many aspects of design and production are still being done manually when it comes to packaging in 2020. Despite modern advancements, many businesses are still stuck in a rut of manual proofreading. The good news is that automation technology has been increasing in popularity over recent years, especially in the areas of quality control. Of these automation innovations, graphics inspection tools are becoming widely implemented across many industries.
5 Common Packaging Mistakes in Pharma
More than in any other sector, pristine packaging is critical to ensuring success in the pharmaceutical industry. Aside from being visually appealing, packaging must be free from the 5 most common critical mistakes that often plague the pharmaceutical industry.
The Competitive Advantage of Effective Packaging
Effective packaging is multi-functional. At the bare minimum, packaging has to be able to adequately contain the product inside, but in cutthroat, performance-driven industries “good enough” rarely is. Five Criteria for Competitive Packaging To be successful, effective packaging should fill no fewer than five different criteria: Protect […]
How Different Departments Help Develop and Proof Packaging
It’s easy to imagine how much work goes into the production of packaging materials. The Packaging Proofing Process Even looking at the process in a vacuum, the back-and-forth alone in trying to finalize a design may spark images of heated boardroom debates on details as seemingly trivial as […]
What Is Prepress?
In spite of a whole industry dedicated to it, very few people know what prepress is. “Prepress” is used in the printing industry to refer to all of a commercial printer’s activities after they receive an order and corresponding graphics from a client, but before the actual job […]
All the Popular Printing Methods from Letterpress to Digital
The invention of the printing press is often understated in terms of its importance, with the advent of the digital age in which we now live. It’s true that these days, people can go entire days without reading something that’s been printed out thanks to the internet. However, […]
10 Ways to Improve Your Barcodes
It’s a bit of a conundrum in our technologically advanced day and age, but, without barcodes to scan, the retail world would effectively grind to a halt. The dependency is understandable though, as barcodes are just that much more effective relative to labels, they can contain that […]
Why Error-Free Packaging and Labeling Is a Must
Pristine, error-free packaging, and labeling undeniably look good, but it’s more than that. It’s a necessity, regardless of the industry in question. Of course, it conveys brand strength, but, more importantly, it’s about respecting regulations that were put in place for a reason. Mislabeling Misadventures The strength of […]
Footprint Packaging, Going Beyond Sustainable Packaging
Every minute, 1 million plastic bottles are being bought all over the planet. It’s fair to say each one won’t end up being recycled either. In fact, 91% won’t be, leading to a lot of unneeded plastic clogging up the eco-system. To help combat the situation, a few years ago the […]
How Can Printed Manuals Improve Your Staff Training?
Virtually all specialized surveys find that print-documentation properties such as portability, readability (legibility), and quickness, with which one can absorb large portions of information, make print manuals a preferred choice for most readers.
How Can File Comparison Software Improve Your Print Ready Files?
While some experienced graphic designers might be very familiar with print-ready work, this concept still represents a terrifying and intimidating aspect of graphic design for many newcomers. For those of you that don’t know what it is, the term ‘print-ready’ is often used in the printing business to […]
26 Experts Share Ideas on 2018 Packing Trends and Sustainable Packaging
For years, the shift towards sustainability has been top of mind in the packaging industry. To keep up, businesses have had to adapt at an incredible rate to please a more educated and savvy consumer. Staying on top of the trends and changes can be a tough task on its own, so we asked experts of the packaging world to forecast where the industry is going.
A Printed Proof for Every Occasion: A Guide to the Types of Prepress Proofs
If you’ve spent enough time in the packaging and labeling industry, you probably understand what printing proofs are and how they are used. For those of you who are new to the industry, welcome! There are different kinds of printing proofs that serve different functions. For anyone in […]
What Is a Dieline in Printing and Packaging?
In the packaging and printing industry, the term “dieline” refers to a template needed to ensure the correct layout of a final physical package. This template serves as a diagram that marks all the folds and cut lines of a package in a flattened form. Dielines can be […]
Understanding the Impacts of a Great Label in Marketing
In a world where consumers have become more discerning of the products they buy, we can’t emphasize enough the importance of marketing labels. Shopping is a process that every business owner needs to understand and the discovery of a product or service starts with an effective marketing strategy. […]
The Role of Packaging in Supply Chain Management
The packaging industry is evolving. We now know that packaging no longer refers to a box or a carton, but rather to a coordinated system of preparing goods for safe, cost-effective, and efficient movement throughout the whole supply chain that eventually leads to maximizing consumer value, […]
What to Do When You Find Spelling Errors in Your Print Job
Errors in packaging components arise all the time and are part of the game. They are unavoidable, but, what is a surprise to most people, is that spelling mistakes are the most common. The largest investment in error avoidance includes expensive inline web inspection systems, cameras, scanners, […]
How Automated Proofreading Is Replacing Obsolete Difference Checker Tools
Packaging serves as the face that products show to the world. That’s why colorful and well-thought-out designs are meant to grab customers’ attention. Packaging is also supposed to convey a message that is associated with each brand. Therefore, packaging mistakes are expensive – not only financially, but they […]
New Technologies Every Pharmaceutical Packaging Company Should Consider
Nowadays, pharmaceutical packaging companies are experiencing big market growth. Reaching an expected compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of CAGR of 11.34% from 2021 to 2028, the market is witnessing particularly quick development in the BRIC countries and throughout Asia. Given this rapid rise, financial experts claim that the market […]
How Modern Prepress Software Is Changing the Packaging Industry
When flipping through a brochure or any sort of packaging, you probably think that to get a design printed all you have to do is press the print button. The truth is there are plenty of steps in between before that design becomes ink on paper. One or […]
Are Spelling Errors Lethal? When It Comes to Medical Packaging, You Bet
What’s at stake with a product misspelling? For any other type of business, it would mean a complete recall – costly, but maybe otherwise harmless. When it comes to the pharmaceutical industry, a whole other set of issues could present themselves. Setting aside the financial costs of a […]
5 Ways to Minimize Issues While Preparing Artwork for Box Packaging
The process of preparing artwork is essential for box packaging. There is a considerable amount of detail that goes into preparation, but it doesn’t have to be a frustrating ordeal. PakFactory has put together a series of practices to help customers and companies minimize artwork issues during the […]
How to Avoid Complete Medicine Recalls due to Labeling Errors
The Pharma industry is by far the most demanding industry when it comes to packaging quality control. The processes, rules, and regulations are extremely complex and must be adhered to. Unfortunately, because many companies still implement manual packaging and label artwork inspections, these results are often prone to […]
6 Tips for Creating Error-Free Packaging
Mastering Print Inspection for Your Business Creating error-free packaging is a daunting task. With so many parties involved from brands, marketing agencies, pre-press, and print suppliers, ensuring no errors in packaging go by can be challenging. We’ve compiled a list of industry best practices that you can use […]
How to Know When a Printer’s Proof is Print-Ready
A brand company goes through many revision cycles until a final PDF is approved. A typical cycle may look something like this; management gives the go-ahead to print 500,000 labels. Then, purchasing fires off a purchase order to the printer with the approved PDF file attached. Most people […]
Ensuring Barcode Accuracy from Packaging to the Patient
Barcodes have changed very little over the last 60 years. For pharmaceutical companies, the barcode has taken on a vital role throughout the product’s lifecycle from original packaging to in-hospital unit dose identification. For pharmaceutical companies, a barcode helps to assure the origins of the drugs, which in […]