Show...me...your print variations!

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Originally Posted by aronbenabe

Saved From My Spokes,

Thanks for your response, but i beg to differ. Firstly, this is a sliver color, not an expert but it seems to be at the opposite spectrum of black. Second, I’ve probably seen over 10,000 Topps 1968 cards in my adulthood and never came across another one from that set....it seems indeed quite rare.


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OK...I wasn't aware that silver was one of the four colors used in the printing process. In my experience, it is not uncommon for sheets being printed by Topps to be printed when one of the four ink colors were running low during the printing process producing a lighter than expected appearance of what was printed.

Light black print, or any light print from any of the other three primary colors is common.... occurrences of such would not be considered "quite rare". Overall print quality with 68s in regards to color levels, IMO, is better than other years.

Not really big into light print anomalies, but here are few "light" and missing print anomalies which I more enjoy. The 68 Schofield card appears to have the same lightness in it's black print as your Pena card. The Ricketts has both missing and low ink. The Marichal has low red ink as does the 80 Hassey card. The 82 Ozzie has low black ink as do many other cards from the 82 set. The 73 FB card is missing an entire color ....