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<p>[QUOTE="Numbers, post: 1816485, member: 11668"]Offsets are always reversed. An offset occurs when the press misfeeds and tries to print without any paper present, so that the ink intended for one note instead ends up on the backing behind the sheet. The next sheet then comes along and picks up that ink on its wrong side, in reverse.</p><p> </p><p>There are other types of errors that can produce correctly-oriented extra images, but those aren't offsets (and generally they're much rarer than offsets).</p><p> </p><p>Also, "bleed-through" basically doesn't happen; the printing ink is too thick. Even a note with a massive ink smear, with far too much ink on the note, won't show any significant bleed-through to the other side. Anything that looks like ink bleeding through the paper is probably an offset (or if it's small and spotty, then ink that transferred from one freshly printed sheet to another when the sheets were stacked before the ink was fully dry).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Numbers, post: 1816485, member: 11668"]Offsets are always reversed. An offset occurs when the press misfeeds and tries to print without any paper present, so that the ink intended for one note instead ends up on the backing behind the sheet. The next sheet then comes along and picks up that ink on its wrong side, in reverse. There are other types of errors that can produce correctly-oriented extra images, but those aren't offsets (and generally they're much rarer than offsets). Also, "bleed-through" basically doesn't happen; the printing ink is too thick. Even a note with a massive ink smear, with far too much ink on the note, won't show any significant bleed-through to the other side. Anything that looks like ink bleeding through the paper is probably an offset (or if it's small and spotty, then ink that transferred from one freshly printed sheet to another when the sheets were stacked before the ink was fully dry).[/QUOTE]
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