does anyone know if printer hickies can be graded as an error? I feel like they should, but idk if they are too "insignificant" to count. I want to send this to cgc. Treecko: some standard copies have a yellow printer hickey resembling a leaf in the area above "weakness".
Deino: some standard copies have a white printer hickey resembling a large accent or apostrophe 2 mm above the "D" in "Defending". Many standard cards in this set are spackled with missing ink dots that can vary in size, location, and number. A Fossil Slowpoke with a large Printer Hickey in the top right of the front of the card.
Click images to enlarge. Printer Hickeys occur when a small particle or piece of debris sticks to either the printing plate or the blanket. This imperfection will show up as a small, round defect on the card.
Sheet Wrinkle A Town Map from BREAKthrough with. A Butterfree and a Seaking are sharing a black printer hickey. What happened was that dirt somehow got into the printer during the printing process, causing the black ink to fail to adhere properly.
Omanyte (52) - "Gold Stain Omanyte" - Gold Printer Hickey - Unlimited Slowpoke (55) - "Psychic Symbol Stain Slowpoke". I own a CGC 9 card with a printer hickey. The card is pristine, not a blemish on the thing besides this hickey.
It got a 9 for surfaces and 10s on everything else, so my guess is that it docks at least 0.5 possibly 1 off the grade. Does a printer hickey on a card decrease the surface grade? or would this not effect the grade given for surface? The *ERROR* Printer hickey Pokémon TCG Ivysaur Base Set 44/130 Uncommon card is a vintage collectible card game item from the Pokémon TCG series. This card features the Grass-type Pokémon Ivysaur with 60 HP, part of the Base Set released in 1999.
Illustrated by Ken Sugimori, this unique card is a Stage 1 Pokémon card made of card stock with a regular finish. It is a sought. Would love to see any printer hickey errors that add something aesthetically pleasing to the card.
Showing this off again as its a great time of year for it lol. Printer hickey and effect on grading. As stated, do the small pink printer hickeys affect the grade? Have an alt art Umbi VMAX with a small pink circle on the rear and just want to know if I ended up pulling a dud? Thanks all!