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Posted By: Judson Hamlin

It would seem to make sense that the Amer. Lithographic Co. would print all the cards at their facility, probably in one location, and then bulk ship the cards out to the ATC trust for them to distribute to their factories to be hand-insterted in the packs. The multi overprint that is shown in this thread seems to fit in with this model. It wouldn't make much sense for AL to print the sheets and then entrust their customer with the cutting of the sheets into cards. It doesn't seemlikely that the ATC would have the machinery on site to perform that kind of work.

While they would have cutting machinery on-site, it seems improbable that they would repurpose (sorry, Dilbertesque word) a line to cut cards that would cut the cigs or create the wrapping for the packs.


edited to include the second paragraph.