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Old 11-19-2001, 07:12 PM
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Default The Printing Process

Posted By: Scott Forrest

Thanks for the great description of how old cards were printed. What got me curious about the printing process was when I read that the "Wagner estate" T206 copies were printed from the original plates I don't know anything about plates, but this makes me think that plates were unique to each card - did they create separate plates for each color? Also, if the T206 Wagner plates still exist, plates for a lot of other cards must exist also. But you never hear anything about them - can you shed any light on this? Thanks.
Also, here's the worst example I've ever seen of the old process:

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