Questions about the printing of vintage cards

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Posted By: Andy

If you could ask the printing company of vintage trading cards a question, what would it be? How were cards cut from the sheet? What type of inks were used? What equipment was used in the printing process? etc.

The American Lithograph Co. (they printed the T206's) closed long ago. Topps, the producer of what we call "new" cards has printed cards since 1950. It would be interesting to sit down with someone at Topps and learn how cards are created, or at least how they were created from 1950 through the 1960's.
So, anyway, back to the reason of this post. If you could sit down with the printers, What would be your vintage card printing question?

Andy