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Special => Error Notes => Topic started by: Archey80 on July 06, 2024, 10:14:31 am

Title: Ghost Error / Inverted Printing
Post by: Archey80 on July 06, 2024, 10:14:31 am: My recent purchase, have you ever seen such an error?
Title: Re: Ghost Error / Inverted Printing
Post by: Cbeaulieu on July 06, 2024, 04:39:58 pm: wow,it's a good one.
Title: Re: Ghost Error / Inverted Printing
Post by: Breanna72 on July 06, 2024, 08:57:08 pm: Awesome note Archey80!!! Like "Two Mints In One"!?! :D :D (punny??)
Title: Re: Ghost Error / Inverted Printing
Post by: Hunter on July 07, 2024, 04:19:10 pm: How did this happen?
Title: Re: Ghost Error / Inverted Printing
Post by: canada-banknotes on July 07, 2024, 11:15:03 pm: Quote from: Archey80 on July 06, 2024, 10:14:31 am
My recent purchase, have you ever seen such an error?

Yes, I have. Another similar error from the same sheet. S/N AOB7350221

Notice the slight variation in the inverted intaglio printing showing CANADA from previous note. This is absent on Archey's note which makes me think that his note was in the first row (top) of the sheet.
Title: Re: Ghost Error / Inverted Printing
Post by: walktothewater on July 08, 2024, 09:17:26 am: Wow: just amazing & dramatic Ghost errors! There's these, the double-denomination errors & missing prefixes. No wonder so many of us went "head over heals" for these Journey notes.

Great examples guys- thanks for sharing.
Title: Re: Ghost Error / Inverted Printing
Post by: Archey80 on September 08, 2025, 09:05:38 pm: A 3rd note from the same sheet (same last 5 digits as these 2 notes) has surfaced on eBay.
Title: Re: Ghost Error / Inverted Printing
Post by: Hunter on September 08, 2025, 11:20:02 pm: So a printing plate got installed on a press upside-down? How’s that possible?
Title: Re: Ghost Error / Inverted Printing
Post by: Bob on September 10, 2025, 05:06:50 pm: It was the sheet that got turned upside-down.
Title: Re: Ghost Error / Inverted Printing
Post by: Hunter on September 10, 2025, 07:45:20 pm: I’m pretty sure they don’t print the colours one at a time. The press prints all the colours during one pass through the machine. If the sheet was upside-down then all the colours would be wrong.
Title: Re: Ghost Error / Inverted Printing
Post by: Hunter on September 10, 2025, 08:46:32 pm: I guess what you’re saying is during the run the press was stopped and someone went into the press and remove the sheet before the final colour, if the dark blue was the final colour and then put the sheet back into the run of sheets but upside-down and then started the press again? Maybe but why would they I don’t think they do quality checks that way. Then again maybe there was a jam up or something that brought them into the press. Who knows? Cool error!
Title: Re: Ghost Error / Inverted Printing
Post by: AL-Bob on September 10, 2025, 09:54:08 pm: Quote from: Hunter on September 10, 2025, 07:45:20 pm
I’m pretty sure they don’t print the colours one at a time. The press prints all the colours during one pass through the machine. If the sheet was upside-down then all the colours would be wrong.

What makes you think that's the case? Whatever happened it seems to be only a single sheet that was affected.
Title: Re: Ghost Error / Inverted Printing
Post by: Hunter on September 10, 2025, 10:54:04 pm: Quote from: AL-Bob on September 10, 2025, 09:54:08 pm
What makes you think that's the case?

Printing all the colours in one pass is how major printing presses are designed. Time is money and no company wants to run the same sheets through a press a bunch of times when they can just do it once.
Title: Re: Ghost Error / Inverted Printing
Post by: Breanna72 on September 11, 2025, 09:26:37 am: May want to do some research into currency printing methods in 2001 which is when this note was printed. Lots of videos at the RCM website.