Show...me...your print variations!

[steve B]

I for one like the crazy oversized scans! There's so much I can see that just can't be seen on smaller scans.

[ALR-bishop]

There are some minor back variants in some of the Leader cards in the 91 Topps set involving either a complete or broken circle around the MLB copyright. Neither are apparently hard to find, but if you have old eyes, they are hard to see. I could not make them out with the scans on eBay or COMC. A fellow board member was able to send me what I needed ( the Hasselhoff Cheesburger man), and even in hand I needed a light and magnifying glass to see the differences.

It is of course ridiculous to care about such differences in cards, but since I do, I appreciate bigger scans as I get older. But they do distort threads when posted. I can still remember, as a low tech guy, being stumped early on in how to size pics for posting. It still presents problems for me on occasion

[savedfrommyspokes]

Originally Posted by ALR-bishop

There are some minor back variants in some of the Leader cards in the 91 Topps set involving either a complete or broken circle around the MLB copyright. Neither are apparently hard to find, but if you have old eyes, they are hard to see. I could not make them out with the scans on eBay or COMC. A fellow board member was able to send me what I needed ( the Hasselhoff Cheesburger man), and even in hand I needed a light and magnifying glass to see the differences.

It is of course ridiculous to care about such differences in cards, but since I do, I appreciate bigger scans as I get older. But they do distort threads when posted. I can still remember, as a low tech guy, being stumped early on in how to size pics for posting. It still presents problems for me on occasion

Like Al, I like the larger scans when details are hard to see .... even in hand.

But if there is a need to use a larger scan to see specific details on a card, at least crop down the image to just the card itself.

[LuckyLarry]

[swarmee]

1974 Topps - [Base] #5 - Hank Aaron Special (1966,1967,1968,1969)
Courtesy of COMC.com

Black dot on the top right border is a recurring print defect.

[savedfrommyspokes]

I can't remember if the "dotted" line print variation located on the upper left of the 1970 389 Jim Shellenback cad has been discussed before or not. However, I came across my first copy and wondered if the dotted line extended onto the card above. The answer is yes, but only a small part of the line can be seen along the bottom edge of the 70 Topps 388 Bryon Browne card.

[ALR-bishop]

The left Browne has two defects and the second may cross over too