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Originally Posted by Phil68
Steve,
Good stuff!
Yeah, the object wasn't to make them look exactly "leafy"
but to make them "leafy " without making them gross, lol.
The print plates slipped quite a bit on the originals.
What other earmarks would you consider adding to a super-leaf?
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Mostly just little stuff that I notice but other people probably wouldn't.
On my monitor it's hard to tell but it looks to me like the yellow was rotated slightly to get some of the out of register look? Leaving some yellow in the name.
And maybe a bit of something on the edges of the halftone black to make it a bit out of focus looking (Can't recall the technical term, and it's probably different for digital anyway)
If it's just my old eyes, then the following is way off.
The originals were very crude 4 color, and I believe designed to minimize ink usage. So there wouldn't have been any other colors under the name panel.
While it can happen, a rotary displacement of one colors registration isn't at all common. That would have to happen when the mask was made (Or the plate, but that would be even less common, and would mess up the cards farther away from the center of the rotation even more) Usually if there is that sort of displacement they got all four colors wrong the same way.
Of course, it's Leaf..... if anyone messed up that much it would be them.
Most printers use subtle " tricks" to hide minor misregistration. Like having a transition from one color to another be under black, or another darker color so if it gets printed a little off it won't really be noticeable.*
Leaf apparently missed that day in printing class.
What they did was sloppy, but while sloppy each color was crisply done.
All that stuff is also likely a boatload of work to do digitally, unless doing the four colors as overlays.
To me that's why the left one looks like what Leaf was probably trying for, while the right one just seems "off"
*Black is almost always printed last, yellow almost always first. If you know registration is a problem, and it's something like 57 Topps, they either didn't care, or made the entire yellow halftone slightly smaller than the cyan which would be slightly smaller than the Magenta. that way small registration problems aren't obvious.
Of the few exceptions I've seen, one of the most interesting is the 81 fleer star stickers fronts, which are typically dark blue, but come in a lighter blue that as far as I can tell has the black printed before the blue.