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04-26-2013, 09:42 AM
RE: Can anyone help explain this?
I have read that there is an indication that topps produces printing plates for insert purposes and they are not actual used printing plates.
I have no way of knowing if that is true or not, but it wouldn't surprise me
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04-26-2013, 03:38 PM
RE: Can anyone help explain this?
(04-26-2013, 09:42 AM)rentzington Wrote: I have read that there is an indication that topps produces printing plates for insert purposes and they are not actual used printing plates.
I have no way of knowing if that is true or not, but it wouldn't surprise me
With Digital printing, there are no plates, so are they printing digitally or using 4 color process printing? That would give you the answer. I believe they are still 4 color process and the plates are still used.
I guess if I saved used tinfoil and used tea bags instead of old comic books and old baseball cards, the difference between a crazed hoarder and a savvy collector is in that inherent value.
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04-27-2013, 02:17 AM
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RE: Can anyone help explain this?
(04-26-2013, 09:42 AM)rentzington Wrote: I have read that there is an indication that topps produces printing plates for insert purposes and they are not actual used printing plates.
I have no way of knowing if that is true or not, but it wouldn't surprise me
source? do you remember where you read that?
seems pretty silly, of all things I wouldn't put past topps... I am not really too worried about my printing plates being fake haha.
hell half my printing plates have physical abnormalities on them as well as leftover ink/smudges/fingerprints/etc
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