Ghost Error / Inverted Printing

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My recent purchase, have you ever seen such an error?

wow,it's a good one.

Awesome note Archey80!!!  Like "Two Mints In One"!?!  (punny??)

How did this happen?

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.

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.

A 3rd note from the same sheet (same last 5 digits as these 2 notes) has surfaced on eBay.

So a printing plate got installed on a press upside-down? How’s that possible?

It was the sheet that got turned upside-down.

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.

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!

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.

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.

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.