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Posted By: J Hull

One way, maybe, to answer this question is if anyone out there has any T206s where the brown ink layer is badly out of registration with the other colors. If the name/team designation line was printed from the same plate as that color layer it should be equally displaced top to bottom or side to side, as the case may be.

I think it's pretty well established that the name/team line is not black and was not printed with the black ink layer. I have a couple T206s where the black frame and black part of the player image are both displaced more than 1/16th of an inch from the rest of the image, so it's clear based on that that the frame was part of the black layer. On those cards the name line is not displaced. Now, if anyone has any cards like that where the brown ink is askew, we may have some insight about the name line.

Jamie