Future of card grading?

[ReefBlue]

I would love to see technology really take hold of grading a card and run off the end of the earth with it.

Place it on a platten, have a laser scan its overall dimensions to the micron.

Rounded corners? How would you like to know each corner's radii?

Then, it could actually get the quality of the ink and its brightness and come up with a value vs. a known brightness of what the ink should be vs. its age.

It could also determine, based on where it finds the white border, the exact centering. 55/45? Give me a break--54.3877/46.6123 is a lot better.

You could even go as far as to invisibly microstamp each card with the serial number recieved at time of grading. This way, if it was ever cracked and resubmitted (or stolen and resubbed) you'd know it is showing up for a second go around.

Of course, unless you have hundreds of these machines, wait times would spiral out of control, but you'd have the perfectly graded card.

[CMIZ5290]

Originally Posted by ReefBlue

I would love to see technology really take hold of grading a card and run off the end of the earth with it.

Place it on a platten, have a laser scan its overall dimensions to the micron.

Rounded corners? How would you like to know each corner's radii?

Then, it could actually get the quality of the ink and its brightness and come up with a value vs. a known brightness of what the ink should be vs. its age.

It could also determine, based on where it finds the white border, the exact centering. 55/45? Give me a break--54.3877/46.6123 is a lot better.

You could even go as far as to invisibly microstamp each card with the serial number recieved at time of grading. This way, if it was ever cracked and resubmitted (or stolen and resubbed) you'd know it is showing up for a second go around.

Of course, unless you have hundreds of these machines, wait times would spiral out of control, but you'd have the perfectly graded card.

John- Are you kidding or what?? What a concept that would be!