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Posted By: Frank Wakefield

Hey Dave,

I agree.

They were either made together, or out separately at each factory. Since there are cards with different factory backs overprinted on the same card then one consolidated printing makes sense.

I once thoght that all of the fronts could have been printed one place, and the backs at the separate factories. But the overprinted backs makes that unlikely.

Besides, if the cards were printed different places I think we could tell slight differences in the card fronts. They seem too uniform for that.

So I vote one printer for the entire process. I wonder if the cigarette boxes were printed on site, which is what I think did not happen, or if they were printed elsewhere. I figure cigarette making is much different than paper and cardboard making, printing, and processing. Coca Cola doesn't make their cartons. Lexmark doesn't make their boxes. It just seems that paper goods were outsourced.

Frank.