The total craziness to be found in modern cards.

[steve B]

Some of you may have read a few of the things I've written about printing on the other forums. With modern stuff it gets even crazier.

Some of the stuff I collect.
All 3 versions of 88 score.
1990's Upper deck with diffferent holograms.
1993 especially with 3 different versions of gloss on the back
1991 Topps - light and dark logos on A+B sheets, and all cards with UV reactive ink on the back or unreactive. Or less commonly slightly reactive.

There's tons of variations in the late 90's stuff since the cards were printed at multiple locations. And each location varied in their reaction to different mistakes. And for some reason the companies actually bothered to fix them.

And it continues today
Heritage this year has two different backs.
And Gypsy queen has two different backs or cardboard -I'm still not sure which.

And the addition of extra steps like embossing, foiling, die cutting, all lead to more interesting printing errors!

I'm really glad most of it is really cheap!

Steve B