? Printing Error

[Runscott]

Interesting. I also have an Arndt that is extra tall like that - wonder if it was the top card on the sheet?

[rp12367]

I was going though a stack of cards I got a few months ago last night and came across this card. It's a Sullivan Portrait with printer's cross mark, hard to see in scan but vertical mark is still there right on edge of card.

[mrvster]

i have 7 to varying degrees love these!

[mrvster]

HUge Crop

[Texxxx]

I have thought about these marks all day at work and have come to the conclusion that they where put on the cards for cutting alignment. You would only need the one on top of the stack to have them. You could actually print several of them out then remove the mark off the plate and print the sheets out.
I may be way out in left field though on this thinking. I know many of you have a lot more knowledge of the T206's than I do.

[mrvster]

Tex,


i totally agree......used for alignment/sheet cutting.....usually seen on miscut cards where the mark wasn't supposed to be seen...

BTW...

nice card....probably the best crop mark i have seen so far and i have been searching them for years....

they go typically $50-$150.....

[steve B]

That's just way too much work. The marks were most likely just at certain places on the sheet, but on every sheet. That way the cutter could simply take a random size stack of sheets and cut them. The extra time to place a special sheet atop a stack would slow things down too much.

The question is exactly where they were on the sheets. Almost certainly at each corner. It's possible there were marks other places too, commonly in the middle of a side, less commonly in the middle of the sheet.

Steve B

[mrvster]

Tex,

Steve is right about the plate....too much work......i think they were on all 4 corners of every sheet.....

[rp12367]

Originally Posted by mrvster

HUge Crop

Love that Kruger card. Is that printer's scrap?

[Abravefan11]

Johnny - What's the anomaly on the Pickering in your post? It looks fat on the top and thin on the bottom like mine.

[Jantz]

Ralph - Thank you for posting a scan of your Sullivan. I have a Sullivan with a crop line too, except mine has a Piedmont 150 back.

Johnny - One of these days, I got to see your collection! PM coming soon.

Tim - I might be wrong, but I think the anomaly with Johnny's Pickering is that it has a different name at the top.


Jantz

[mrvster]

Ralph!

2 beautiful scraps...i still have ghosted howell thinking about trading/selling you.....krugs.obviously off same sheet....name on top/no name at bottom(almost like those hindu adds).....alfred e newmans i like to call them....sorry bout the scans....one is ghosted a 1/16" more than the other, but maternal....

i have been thinking about trading one for a brown om, but would still be hard to part with one.....i don't think they like to be broken up

Tim!!
t206 owes you and jim!! all you guys put into it, your a class acts
i have another pickering exactly like yours....but the pickering in the scan has MYERS on top!!SAweet! Erick s loves that card....

PLease excuse my pics