What is scrap and what isn't?

[MuddyMules]

Originally Posted by mrvster

but all the stock should have been consistent for the most part right??? since there was probably some deviation.....I'm still sure there had to have been some that were taken home/ thrown aside

I'm sure someone took something home. We all do......

The thickness of the stock would be the same during a first run. The thickness of the stock could change on a second or third printing of the card(s). A perfectly centered card at a perfect size would have came from the top of the stack. The inconsistency would have come from the sheets shifting during the cut. The thicker the stack of sheets, the more shifting of the sheets. If you had a guy in a hurry to cut the sheets or show off that he could cut more sheets than the next guy, this would cause inconsistency.

If ALL of the same player cards were printed at the same time, regardless the paper will be the same thickness. The only variable would be a reorder/reprint of the cards, using the same negatives to make new plates and a possible paper product change. A lot of times a customer would reorder "certain" player cards and the printing company would not reprint the same layout because the plates were already destroyed or they did not need the "other" players. They would use the same negatives to create new plates, which would cause a difference in color variation, cutting variations and paper thickness, in which these cards could have been printed on a different press, depending on the new layout of the cards on the sheet. A customer may have only ordered 1,000 of one player but 10,000 of a more popular player and then decided that they needed 1,000 more of only one of the players.