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Old 02-28-2009, 10:16 AM
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Default 1908-09 BB card Wars....RAMLY vs American Caramel

Posted By: Frank Wakefield

I'm not finding the idea of an 11 x 11 card press run very believable.


A printer doesn't want 11 of something on there. It makes for an extra, unnecessary cut. As a teenager I worked for a newspaper. They had a huge paper cutter. The blade was easily 3'. Had a large metal table area that was gridded off, a wheel in front that would move a bar at the back of the platform for moving your paper into alignment, a wheel at the top that would lower an arm of metal down onto the work to hold it in place, and a huge blade...

Something twelve wide you'd cut into 2 bunches of 6 wide, then 4 bunches of 3 wide, then 2 more cuts. A total of 4 cuts. Something 11 wide you'd cut into 5s and 6s; then 3s, 3s, 3s, and 2s; and you start getting to an unmanageable stack.

11 wide doesn't seem likely to me.

Some double prints are out there.... now that seems likely. More so than 11 wide.

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