the trim plate has become its own reject example

A trainee sorted them from photos. The quality lead checked some plates, but nobody linked those decisions back to individual pictures.

Then I'd keep the pictures and start the labels again with the quality lead. Include awkward accepted plates, not just lovely clean ones. Otherwise the first ordinary finish variation will look like a crisis.

Are the physical plates still around?

Yes. In a drawer, fortunately.

Put an ID on the back and photograph that separately, then link the front views. Cheap filing work, but it stops one shiny object acquiring three personalities

And repeat the seating. We had this come up in another image discussion: careful labelling doesn't rescue a picture taken with the plate leaning differently each time.

We tried the drawer samples in a locating nest. That big stripe still moves when the light position changes. One actual scored plate loses its visible mark at some positions too, which complicates the easy answer I wanted.

Who chose which scored plate counts as a reject?

Our quality lead, against the customer's cosmetic examples. It's sample S6 in the new list.

Good. Keep S6 when comparing lights, even if the clean plates look better without it.

That's the annoying tradeoff. A flatter-looking image can be easier to threshold and worse at showing the thing you care about. Have you got the faint rejects in there as well as S6?

I'd leave the disputed samples in a separate pile, too. No need to turn a disagreement into a confident label just to fill a folder

Two faint rejects now included. We've also got three the inspectors disagree on. Those aren't going into tuning yet. Thanks for the back-label suggestion, Anika; we caught another duplicated plate that way.

Will the next shift get the actual samples, or only the pictures?

Both. The samples have a storage tray now, with the image list beside it. Lighting choice is still pending; we have one arrangement that hides less but gives us a very bright edge.

How did that edge behave on the faint rejects? I'm interested in what you settle on, especially if it doesn't require a second presentation for every plate.