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Printer's scraps were sheets that were printed wrong-- off colors, missing colors, mistakes, backs miscut, double print, bad color alignment, other. Scrap sheets were literally or figuratively tossed by the printers into the trash bin, where someone retrieved them and hand cut the cards for their own fun/use. For example, a worker might have brought home a sheet for the kiddie. Thus scaps are usually handcut and often have noticeable printing deficiences about them. A ghost or wet sheet could be one of the errors sometimes.

Though wet sheet transfers or ghosts often to usually appear on issued cards too. In these cases, the cards look otherwise fine and have factory cuts.

In short, ghosts are wet sheet transfers, and whether or not a ghost card is a scrap or an final/issued card is usually determined by the cut-- factory versus handcut.

Also, you will often hear the phrase "probably a scrap." Meaning it's most likely a scrap-- a fair guess. Usually applied to a rough card with printing issues. Being a scrap, aka a factory reject, isn't something to brag about or bring in big $$ premium, so it's not like claiming at auction "probably a proof" or "probably one-of-one" or "probably from the Honus Wagner estate." A dishonest seller looking for your money would make up that it's a proof not a scrap-- unless it's a horrible ugly terrible home computer printer baked in the toaster forgery that can only be reasonably explained as being horrible factory mistake. "Of course it looks little like a real Honus Wagner-- it's a scap. Scraps always look different. Don't you know your printing history?"