2022 Topps printed upside down

[darkhorse9]

I don't buy a lot of new stuff, but I did buy two jumbo packs of 2022 Topps today.

Can someone explain why many of the cards are printed upside down? I've got 80 total cards and 24 of them have the card number on upper Left if you turn the card horizontally. The rest have the card number in the lower left when you do the same.

[John1941]

Darn it. They've been doing that for no obvious reason in Topps Update in 2020 and 2021, but I'd been hoping they wouldn't do it in Topps flagship. Oh well- no clue why they do it. So annoying.

[deweyinthehall]

Originally Posted by John1941

Darn it. They've been doing that for no obvious reason in Topps Update in 2020 and 2021, but I'd been hoping they wouldn't do it in Topps flagship. Oh well- no clue why they do it. So annoying.

I haven't bought new stuff in 8 years, but even then it was clear to me Topps wasn't concentrating much on the quality of it's flagship product. Not where the money is, I guess.

[dealme]

I’ve always found this to be curious. I don’t know that it matters, but it goes back to at least their 1954 issue.

Cheers,
Mark


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[toppcat]

Originally Posted by dealme

I’ve always found this to be curious. I don’t know that it matters, but it goes back to at least their 1954 issue.

Cheers,
Mark


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Due to the full bleed top borders in '54, this is just laziness now.

[tulsaboy]

This was the case with 2020 and 2021 cards I opened. I'd be sorting them to hand collate a set, and I would start with the fronts of the cards all right side up. Then when I went to sort they were weirdly upside down.
kevin

[darkhorse9]

By my quick count, 37 of the 330 cards have the backs printed upside down.

Why? That makes zero sense.

[frankhardy]

That annoys that bleep out of me when they do that. Whether it's laziness or if they think it's some artsy neat thing to be different... Regardless, it's stupid.

I even think it is dumb to mix up horizontal designs with vertical designs. Make it one or the other. I think it would be neat to have a horizontal design for the whole set like 1960.