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> Luna reorders products that are not selling and sometimes gets orders wrong. A recent one of Andon Market mugs with big, green smiley faces came misprinted with the faces so small, they looked like tiny dots.

The mug with the tiny happy face is kinda hilarious. If I was there I would buy one.

I wonder though if the mug was a case of getting the order wrong or was a misprint? The article isn't clear on that.

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Maybe it confused metric and imperial units?? The order form had text entry with a value of 2 with no units. The user assumed 2" but the print house assumed 2mm. Always always always show your units. I can still hear the voice of my high school physics teacher saying that.

It's equally likely that the unit was implied by other content around the input field and the model didn't make the connection (like "scale: [___] mm"), or perhaps the file format was just wrong and a human placing the order would have resulted in the same outcome.

I think if a human received artwork and was then told to scale it down to 2mm on a mug so that it was just a dot, that the human would ask some questions. This context that keeps being talked about is kind of important yet so sorely not working

What I mean is that the file was specified in one unit/resolution and the site expected a different one. Like, "draw a circle of radius 2 at (3, 3)".

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