I approved my proof but just noticed a typo, can you fix it before printing?
What print shops need to publish
This is the single most important policy in the industry, and stating it honestly prevents a much worse dispute after printing.
How customers actually ask it
The same intent arrives in wording your page probably does not use. All of these mean the same thing:
- “I approved my proof but just noticed a typo, can you fix it before printing?”
- “mistake after approval”
- “reprint for free”
- “error in approved file”
What a complete answer contains
For print shops specifically, an answer is only complete when it covers all 4:
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The real policy stated plainly
- 2
That an immediate catch (before printing starts) might still be possible
- 3
That a reprint after approval is a new charge, not free
- 4
Why — approval is the customer's confirmed sign-off
A worked example
Illustrative — not a real business
If we haven't started printing yet, contact us immediately — we may be able to catch it. But once approved, a proof is your final sign-off, and if printing has already started or completed, a reprint to fix the error is a new charge, not something we can do free, since the approval is exactly what confirms the file is correct to print. This is why we always recommend a careful final read before clicking approve.
Which page should own it
Proof approval policy page
What silence costs
This exact scenario, handled without a clear published policy, is the industry's most common source of billing disputes.
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AI customer support for print shops
The moment that matters most in a print job is proof approval — once a customer signs off on a digital proof, any error found in the printed product (a typo, a wrong color, a misaligned bleed) is the customer's responsibility, not the shop's. RubyRep states this plainly before someone approves anything, along with real rush-order cutoffs and color-matching expectations.
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What is AI customer service?
AI customer service means answering customer questions with a language model rather than a person. The useful implementations are grounded in a specific business's own content; the poor ones let a general model improvise, which produces confident answers that are wrong.
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What is a knowledge base?
Traditionally a knowledge base is a help centre humans read. For AI support it is the source material a representative answers from — which means an ordinary website, well written, can serve as one without a separate help centre.
Does your site answer this already?
Point RubyRep at your website and ask it this exact question. If it cannot answer, neither can your customers.