A couple of printer scrap cards I recently picked up

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Posted By: Hankron

As far as miscuts, printing goofs, blank backs and such go, I think Dave's definition was essentially a good one (The above Dave, not me). In many cases, the difference between a 'scrap' and a non-scrap printer's error (miscut, blank back) is that a scrap was thrown away ('scrapped') while the printer's error was included in the pack. If you pull a blank back card out of a 1987 Topps, it's a printer's error not a scrap .... Typically, scraps have printing problems and have unprofessional handcut edges (the giveaway, often oversized too). The error pulled straight from a pack will have professionally cut edges.

Both types were printer's goof-ups, so the difference between them is not that big of a deal.