Production error - print alignment
I thought I was about done with error parts for now, and then this one showed up :-P
The instructions were made by printing several colours over each other to form the final image. The colours used were Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Black (CMYK). For each of these colours, the image was formed using a halftone screening method that uses dots of differing sizes and spacing to reproduce colour gradients. When done well, the combined pattern is perceived as a whole where we do not notice the separate dots or print colours.
Several of these images are printed together on large sheets, and as a final step they are cut and folded.
Here, something went wrong and the separate colours became visible.
The white colour we see is the unprinted paper. The Yellow and Cyan prints are exactly aligned with the white areas. Next Magenta and Black were printed. They do not align with the previous printing steps, but do align with each other. Therefore it seems most likely that the paper moved before these steps were printed.
Errors like this will happen once in a while, but usually they will be noticed and the prints will not make it into sets.
Set 6833, released in 1990.
Document "part ID": 120091.
Printed in Denmark by LAURSEN TØNDER.
Production error - print alignment
I thought I was about done with error parts for now, and then this one showed up :-P
The instructions were made by printing several colours over each other to form the final image. The colours used were Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Black (CMYK). For each of these colours, the image was formed using a halftone screening method that uses dots of differing sizes and spacing to reproduce colour gradients. When done well, the combined pattern is perceived as a whole where we do not notice the separate dots or print colours.
Several of these images are printed together on large sheets, and as a final step they are cut and folded.
Here, something went wrong and the separate colours became visible.
The white colour we see is the unprinted paper. The Yellow and Cyan prints are exactly aligned with the white areas. Next Magenta and Black were printed. They do not align with the previous printing steps, but do align with each other. Therefore it seems most likely that the paper moved before these steps were printed.
Errors like this will happen once in a while, but usually they will be noticed and the prints will not make it into sets.
Set 6833, released in 1990.
Document "part ID": 120091.
Printed in Denmark by LAURSEN TØNDER.