Layout Test Unlimited Holo (?): Company: ?, Date: ?, Form ?, Job # ?,

Unlimited Holo - 1st Run (Shadowless) : Company: ?, Date: 2/99, Form 9, Job # ?, Sign-Off: 2-7-99 3:55PM I also recently tried to compile a list of print run dates for all WOTC sets, including additional information listed on the sheet.ġst Edition Holo - 1st run (Thick Stamps): Company ?, Date: 11/98, Form 7, Sign-Off: 11-30-98 7:25AMġst Edition Holo - 2nd run (Thin Stamps): Company ?, Date: 01/99, Form 7, Version 2, Job #P06057270 00 0140, Sign-Off: 1-3-99 2:45PM,ġst Edition Holo - 3nd run (Shadowless) : Company ?, Date: 01/99, Form 7, Version 3, Job #P06057270 00 0140, After the first 10 sets they started using a printer in South Korea, which saved them lots of money in shipping and production, but meant a huge drop in quality.īecause of TPCI's much stricter policies and general disinterest in the product from employees, not many modern sheets have ever surfaced.Ĭontrary to that, there's a lot of different WOTC era sheets out there to collect, including test prints and misprints. Later TPCI started print Korean cards again, which were first produced in the US for the market in South Korea. Nowadays most cards come from PBM, which has since been acquired by Consolidated Graphics.

Starting with the Diamond & Pearl block, production of all international cards for the market outside of Asia was moved to the US. When TPCI took over the printing from WOTC, they continued to use the same printers. USA: Cartamundi, The United States Playing Card Company, PBM Graphics, UV Color, Rainier Color, Yaquinto Printing Here's an (incomplete) list of the printers WOTC used: They used printing facilities in the USA, Belgium, UK and Australia. Wizards of the Coast used printers in a variety of countries to keep up with the tremendous demand during the Pokemon boom. There's vast differences in the look and layout of the Uncut Sheets, depending on where they are printed. Those are then cut into individual cards and go through a corner rounding station where they receive the typical rounded corners you know from Pokemon cards.

Trading cards are not printed individually, but on large Uncut Sheets.

Uncut 1st playing cards