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Originally Posted by JustinD
That is not a ghost, but the term seems to be one of the most misunderstood in the hobby.
A ghost is an different image visible on the card. Often caused by a color transfer when stacking wet sheets during printing, a light print from the printing cylinder hitting the card or more rarely an additional print pass by mistake.
What you have is a printing error caused by the sheet moving during a color pass. These are called a registration error, color shift, offset error or other terms. These have far less value normally than a ghost to error collectors. A shift really needs to be drastic or add to the beauty of the card to draw error collectors or often they actually devalue the card as it just looks blurry.
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I'm with Justin on this one.
To me, this is not much different than other defects, possibly worse because it detracts greatly from eye appeal. Who wants to look at a blurry card? Registration is a key attribute of a card, obviously, the sharper the better.