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Can someone explain this to me?
both of these cards came from a sealed fat pack, but they look slightly diffirent.
I doubt this is just me, but several of my cards, across all of the cards in the sealed pack, seemed to have a diffirent hue to them, and I can understand why,
Is this normal? I already tore a cheap green card I had to compare it to another which looked more uniform but was the same name, and sure enough trademark blue glue and glowed through light.
Why are some of my cards like this?
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>>54807241
Shit printing.
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>>54807241
It's a common printing error. The printers were running low on ink. Not worth any more than normal cards, unless you find a super dedicated collector, which is unlikely.
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WotC has had some pretty shitty print quality the past few years. Wait until you open one of the no-black-ink ones or the ink-too-dark ones.
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>playing magic
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>>54808619
I work at a print shop and anytime you have huge runs like this your color is going to fluctuate as >>54807448 said. It's not really shitty printing so much as the capabilities of current printing technology. Even if they printed one card as a template and matched every other card to it one-by-one, there would still be slight variations in each card.
Theoretically, they could hire people to sort out all of the bad cards before they get put into packs. However, when you are printing 100k+ of each card per block and there are like 200 unique cards in a block, that's not really practical or economical.
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>>54808909
>going into threads about things that they don't like or play and leave witty stupid comments...
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>>54810179
Thank you for being reasonable. I'm a graphic designer with a lot of print production experience. Everytime I hear some grognard (Desolator) complaining about "HURRR WHY CAN'T THEY STOP FOILS FROM BENDING? SHITTY WIZARDS NO QUALITY CONTROL" I am amazed by the fact that people just think printed material is as easy as doing ctrl+p.
It's like the countless boneheaded clients I've had to explain the reasons why they can't print white with CMYK...
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>>54811922
>It's like the countless boneheaded clients I've had to explain the reasons why they can't print white with CMYK...
On colored paper?
Or is there some subtle reason why paper-white isn't the correct shade of white?
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>>54815503
Not that anon, but bare paper tends to yellow and rot. Plus different grade/material of paper subtly changes to various hues and shade of white
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