T206 Errors and Oddities.. Show Yours

[t206hound]

Originally Posted by mrvster

after taking a second look with your blown up scan.....front " blue bat" def looks printed!!!......this one has me confused!



calling Tim or Erick

So weird. I would have bet it was after the factory, but with 6 instances, I stand corrected. I'd love to see the back of the orange one. But regardless, I'm stumped.

[Pat R]

It looks like the orange one might have paper on the back.

[atx840]

Scanner didn't pickup that its indented, must have been an issue with the press for a few sheet runs. Orange example was in a binder.

[Matvoo]

Thats very cool chris

[mrvster]

why it appeared "printed"

very good investigation

eagle eye I must call you!!!! grasshopper....the student has become the master

[steve B]

Am I seeing that right? The dent is pushed into the back? Do the others seem dented too?

If so that's the weirdest thing I've seen in a long time. I'll have to do some thinking to figure out how that happened. Do the others seem dented too?

Before you showed the others I figured it was a bit of debris getting dragged across the blanket while light blue was printing. And finally getting ground into the stock. But that wouldn't be recurring and wouldn't dent the back.

Some have a bit of a shadow around them almost like a big fisheye. But that shouldn't cause the back damage.

And a bit of debris on the impression cylinder which would cause the dent shouldn't affect the inking on the front at all.

A piece that damaged the plate ......Ah, that's a possibility. A bad gouge or dent into the plate will hold ink and print. And if that debris damaged the blanket too, it might emboss the card. But that doesn't make sense either. The impression cylinder should be steel. So it wouldn't emboss. towards the front.

The only options that work are so far out there they make no sense. And they'd totally change how T206 production is viewed if there's any evidence of it. I'll have to really start looking into the presses Hoe made for lithography.

Fascinating card in a lot of ways.

Steve B

[mrvster]

maybe something got in between the impression cylnder piece of debris?? that caused the embossing?? and in, turn, the impression picked up blue ink??