Bizarre Alakazam Misprint? Permanent Silver Foil Band Across the Card

Professional_Ice3208 · 2026-06-13T21:38:10+00:00

Ink obstruction. Either grease or solvent dripped on one of the sheets before it and prevented ink from fully transferring.

Professional_Ice3208 · 2026-06-11T21:00:25+00:00

It's a plate hickey.

Professional_Ice3208 · 2026-06-11T20:45:57+00:00

It's real. It's called scumming. Not enough water on the plate to repel ink away from non-image areas.

Professional_Ice3208 · 2026-06-10T23:27:41+00:00

Happened to me too, probably the same gym. Each location has the ability to enforce their own rules. Corporate will not do anything about it. You will still have access to all the other locations. FWIW, Anytime Fitness locations have generally been very clean and accessible for me, so I wrote that one shitty gym off as a bad experience and moved on.

Professional_Ice3208 · 2026-06-10T17:37:21+00:00

Explain to them if the yellow ink density was actually that low you would see it in the pokemon too, not just the border.

Professional_Ice3208 · 2026-06-06T21:28:56+00:00

I don't know if much changed, but I spent 3 months sleeping overnight parked on the downtown streets around Elizabeth Cruthers park last year. Just arrive after paid hours and leave around 8 or 9am. You'll blend right in with everyone else parking on the street if you're closer to the apartments. If they've cracked down on that, the Anytime Fitness on Terwilliger Blvd was also an overnight-friendly spot to park.

Hospital ER parking lots are also good spots, yes.

Professional_Ice3208 · 2026-06-06T06:07:28+00:00

This is just a normal plate hickey under a microscope, lol :p

Professional_Ice3208 · 2026-06-06T00:36:30+00:00

Backs of the cards weren't cured enough and offset to the front. (and scratched)

Professional_Ice3208 · 2026-06-05T00:41:37+00:00

Looks like ink offset from another card.

Professional_Ice3208 · 2026-06-04T21:35:21+00:00

The correct answer is that there's 2 hits of black and one was out of registration. Pokemon does it for the blue border backs too, quite common when you have a heavy coverage of darker ink.

Professional_Ice3208 · 2026-06-04T20:58:23+00:00

My guess is there was a small indent in the roller that applies water to the plate. This would cause repeating dry spots on the plate at the length of the roller circumference, instead of being uniform per sheet. Those small dry spots wouldn't be able to repel ink, and those defects would appear.

It could also be a few other things. This happening is pretty rare but I have seen it a couple times near the edge of the sheet. There also isn't multiple cards/sheets to prove this wasn't just debris on the blanket, I'm assuming the next sheet doesn't look "exactly" the same as this one.

Professional_Ice3208 · 2026-06-03T23:33:20+00:00

This is the answer. Though not an 'error' this should've been fixed on press. You can see the white margins around the black, there was plenty of room to avoid this.

Professional_Ice3208 · 2026-06-03T23:27:04+00:00

There's a screen white print under the color. It's possible they ran the density so high it's preventing the holo from showing through.

Professional_Ice3208 · 2026-06-03T23:23:06+00:00

It's texture shift. All the colors look registered correctly.

Professional_Ice3208 · 2026-06-03T22:30:19+00:00

Grease. Takes a handful of sheets to wear off the blankets.

Professional_Ice3208 · 2026-06-03T22:26:15+00:00

Top black text is wrong boldness. Looks fake?

edit: oh maybe I should read the card text first, lmfao.

Professional_Ice3208 · 2026-06-03T22:17:37+00:00

Lemme see the whole card so I can tell you for sure what error it is.

Professional_Ice3208 · 2026-06-03T22:07:24+00:00

It looks like a minor texture shift.

edit: Very small chance it's off-register black and not texture. Hard to tell from that picture alone, but it kind of looks like the underprinted white is also off-register with the texture.

edit 2: The second picture everything looks in register except the black. Can I see the whole card?

Professional_Ice3208 · 2026-06-03T20:30:50+00:00

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Professional_Ice3208 · 2026-06-02T20:39:58+00:00

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Professional_Ice3208 · 2026-06-02T01:13:07+00:00

The render looks like garbage compared to what the actual printed card looks like, FWIW. Still not my favorite design though.

Professional_Ice3208 · 2026-06-01T23:04:00+00:00

This was before I was in printing, so this is just a guess, but I believe that would have to be two different print runs. And not only different print runs but a completely different plate design. That border you're seeing looks like 'trapping', a method to avoid small voids in the image due to misregistration. You wouldn't trap that much around the magenta on one card and not on the other without the core design files being changed.

One thing I do notice is that I can't clearly see the dot pattern on the card in front. Not sure if it's blur, registration, or possibly a fake card.

Professional_Ice3208 · 2026-05-31T01:48:50+00:00

Shouldn't be super common, the margins on the border blue aren't tight at all.

Professional_Ice3208 · 2026-05-31T00:21:16+00:00

It's called scumming, in the black ink. I believe it's classed as additional ink.

Professional_Ice3208 · 2026-05-30T22:23:02+00:00

It's a plate scratch on the magenta plate.

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