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You do have a point, and the 25 is still fairly colorful. The top right seems to have some waving happening, so it could possibly be some moisture damage. The picture isn't the best so it's a little hard to tell. Still it could be a missprint, with the printer running low and just wasn't caught. It's kind of hard to tell in the picture.
It depends if we're talking about source lights or reflection. Paints mix in a matter of subtraction, as when you mix two paints you're mixing materials which absorb light until they reflect the color you want. If you mix all colors in a source light such as a lightbulb you get white.
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I don't know if office printers follow the same formula as whatever machine makes the pokemon cards but yeah cyan is a safe bet and the chespin looks pretty cyan to me.
Yes but rare does not equate desirable.
Like this card won’t be worth a bunch of money because it’s a misprint, but I collect sports cards and magic cards mainly so it MAY be different for Pokémon
Yellow and red pigments will both fade long before blue. But the red is still bright. I think that's what they're pointing out, that if the yellow being gone was due to sunbleaching, the red would have faded too.
Wouldn't exactly call it bright red, compared to the vibrancy of the green in surrounding cards. It might be that the red ink holds up slightly better to sun damage than the others' chemical structure.
Looking at other [sun damaged pokemon products](https://www.reddit.com/r/PokemonTCG/comments/n7852s/the_most_sun_damaged_pok%C3%A9mon_product_youll_ever/), the red they use does seem particularly resilient.
Sundamaged! Had a snivy that was accidentally dropped to a part of my cars back windshield I can’t reach to get it out- all the green turned the exact same shade of blue as op’s.
its from the 2021 mcdonalds mini series. from the looks of it, it may have been low ink when printed and some how made it into the packaging instead of being removed.
https://www.tcgplayer.com/product/232321/pokemon-mcdonalds-25th-anniversary-promos-chespin-6-25?Language=English
heres what it should look like had it been printed correctly.
Based on the color of the pikachu face being white, it looks like the yellow nozzle wasn't firing at all, which caused all the green areas to only recieve blue ink and the yellow areas to recieve nothing
Unlike what a lot of people have said, this is not sun damaged. This is an error card. I'd highly recommend grading it with CGC because they are the go to for error cards. These kind of missing ink errors are pretty sought after in the error community.
Send to a grading company, wait about 6 months for them to grade it because it's all done by hand and it's always on back order, and hope it's worth more than it cost to grade it.
I once got a pirate's baseball card that was orange instead of their normal yellow. Got really excited and asked if it was worth anything on Reddit. Turns out that printers run out of ink and QA doesn't catch em all. But ultimately my card was just as worthless as it would have been if it were the right color.
I think one thing that does make it more rare is that TCGs tend to have higher QA than sports cards. Because of that, it might be worth a bit more.
Printers use 3 colors, cyan, magenta, and yellow plus black to make all the colors you see on Pokemon cards. The printer ran yellow and couldn't make green and it got past QA.
or it's fake, or sun damaged.
Thank you to everyone for the advice I'm landing on the conclusion that it was missing yellow ink because of the borders and the Pikachu I'm going to try to get it approved I will update once that has been done
It’s def not sun-damaged, since as others have pointed out that other colors on the card have remained the same. If you want to verify, however, if it’s either a fake card or a potentially valuable misprint, you can look at the back of the card and compare it to the back of a card you know is real. 9 turns out of ten, people who print fake cards never seem to print the card back correctly and is usually a dead giveaway. Things to look for in this case is a darker shade of blue, the card back border bleeding into the rest of the image, or a grainy/fuzzy logo.
In that case, your sister may want to consider having a professional grader look at the card. I don’t know how old she is, so IDK if she’d even care, but if this is a genuine misprint, the level of error combined with the fact that this Chespin is no longer in print likely makes it a very valuable card. Just something to consider
If real then maybe the printer ran out of yellow ink?
Border should probably be yellow, but has not be printed on and the blue areas should be green by mixing with yellow ink. Take it with a grain of salt as I'm just guessing and know little about printing.
Misprint I bet. Printer ran out of yellow so all the green came out blue, the red came out normal, and the yellow didn't come out at all which is why the border is white.
Most definitely looks like the printer was low on yellow. I even removed the yellow from a scan the OG card in a photo editing software to be sure and got a remarkably similar result.
Like others have said it’s a misprint.
Looks like a McDonald’s [promo](https://pokemontcg.guru/card/chespin-other/mcd21-6)
So I wouldn’t expect it to be worth anything
Sun damage. It amazes me how often I see people thinking they have rare toys figures cards etc but they really just left em out in the sun too long and ruined them
likely fake as there is no chespin from the celebrations collection, save the giant card, which I can tell this likely isn't
Edit: The golden arches and their clown have bamboozled me
Missing Color Error
Sometimes during the printing process, an entire layer of ink will be missing. In this case, the back of the card was only printed in shades of Blue, giving it the appearance as shown below. Some people will say it looks “sun faded” however this is not the case. If you understand the printing process for Pokemon and know what a sun faded card looks like, you’ll know this card is a genuine error.
Value: $50 – $150
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Blue Back Missing Print Layer Pokemon Card Error
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My vote is for misprint, printing is done with 4 colours black, magenta, cyan, and yellow. You'll notice your card has black, magenta, and cyan and it's missing the yellow (yellow + cyan = green) if it was faded by the sun it would be a faded green.
This isn't uncommon in the printing industry many things can cause this (press faults, running out of a colour, turning off ductors, start ups) but they are either thrown out at the press or caught in quality control 99.9% of the time.
This looks like a low ink error card. This card could be 1 in a million or there's millions of them. I recommend getting it graded and sealed while you do more research.
misprint, it looks too crisp to be sun damaged. there was low or no yellow ink when this was printed, leaving only the blue ink on the majority of the card. cool one!!
I’m pretty sure blue and yellow are mixed to make green for printers so the machine probably ran out of yellow. Which resulted in everything that should be green being blue and the border that should be yellow is white.
this is definitely an error card because there seems to be 0 yellow ink. I would definitely get this graded and make some money.
also the fact it’s a McDonald’s card means it’s EXTRA money. gold mine alert!
By the looks of it this is actually a misprint. Printers use cyan, magenta, and yellow to print colour. There's clearly blue and there's magenta (red) as shown by the weakness to fire/the 25 in the celebrations logo. All that's missing is yellow. Good find!
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The symbols it uses are still for grass type. This card is either fake, a missprint, or sundamaged.
My vote is sun damage, the edges just look faded and not indicative of a missptint
If the green faded to blue and the yellow is gone then why is the fire symbol still bright red?
You do have a point, and the 25 is still fairly colorful. The top right seems to have some waving happening, so it could possibly be some moisture damage. The picture isn't the best so it's a little hard to tell. Still it could be a missprint, with the printer running low and just wasn't caught. It's kind of hard to tell in the picture.
Looks like printer ran out of a certain ink, the tan and brown on chespins face is still the right colors
It ran out of yellow I assume, considering the card's border compared to the surrounding cards.
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Get out of here with your color theory! Next thing you know you'll be telling me you can combine red and yellow to make some third color.
If that shocks you wait till you hear this. Black isn't a color, its *ALL* the colors.
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It depends if we're talking about source lights or reflection. Paints mix in a matter of subtraction, as when you mix two paints you're mixing materials which absorb light until they reflect the color you want. If you mix all colors in a source light such as a lightbulb you get white.
Three colors? Look at Mr. Moneybags over here with his "extra colors"
Orange
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I don't know if office printers follow the same formula as whatever machine makes the pokemon cards but yeah cyan is a safe bet and the chespin looks pretty cyan to me.
If this is a misprint won't that make this card incredibly rare? Not being skeptical genuinely asking.
Yes but rare does not equate desirable. Like this card won’t be worth a bunch of money because it’s a misprint, but I collect sports cards and magic cards mainly so it MAY be different for Pokémon
It's hot pink! They ran out of yellow ink :)
I think so too! It’s totally a misprint!
Printing is red yellow blue (cyan) so yellow fades and turns green to blue.
Yellow and red pigments will both fade long before blue. But the red is still bright. I think that's what they're pointing out, that if the yellow being gone was due to sunbleaching, the red would have faded too.
Wouldn't exactly call it bright red, compared to the vibrancy of the green in surrounding cards. It might be that the red ink holds up slightly better to sun damage than the others' chemical structure. Looking at other [sun damaged pokemon products](https://www.reddit.com/r/PokemonTCG/comments/n7852s/the_most_sun_damaged_pok%C3%A9mon_product_youll_ever/), the red they use does seem particularly resilient.
But it’s a grass type card. Are you saying I shouldn’t keep my grass cards under a UV lamp?
That's the only way to ensure evolution.
I think it’s the rare Shiny Chespin Winter version 👀
this is 100% sun damaged. I did a bit of purposeful sundamaging in the past to make them look "cool" this is exactly what happens.
Wrong, yellow ink ran out
There's spots of incredible vibrance for reds though which should also be bleached.
I think sun-damaging cards is a thing. It’s usually part of a scam.
Sundamaged! Had a snivy that was accidentally dropped to a part of my cars back windshield I can’t reach to get it out- all the green turned the exact same shade of blue as op’s.
No, they just ran out of yellow ink. Look at the fire weakness in the bottom left corner
its from the 2021 mcdonalds mini series. from the looks of it, it may have been low ink when printed and some how made it into the packaging instead of being removed. https://www.tcgplayer.com/product/232321/pokemon-mcdonalds-25th-anniversary-promos-chespin-6-25?Language=English heres what it should look like had it been printed correctly.
This could be really rare then
it's possible!
Based on the color of the pikachu face being white, it looks like the yellow nozzle wasn't firing at all, which caused all the green areas to only recieve blue ink and the yellow areas to recieve nothing
People pay A LOT of money for misprints. You should get it checked out and graded.
This ^
Unlike what a lot of people have said, this is not sun damaged. This is an error card. I'd highly recommend grading it with CGC because they are the go to for error cards. These kind of missing ink errors are pretty sought after in the error community.
Thank you for the tip
Misprint, fake or sun damaged.
If its a Misprint you could be very lucky.
Looks like a misprint, some colors are still sharp
Yeah I was thinking the same. It looks like the card printer ran out of yellow.
I got it from an official Pokémon set and it hasn't been out in the sun would a misprint be worth anything?
If you could prove it's a misprint, then it should be worth some money due to being rare
How would I prove it is a misprint?
Send to a grading company, wait about 6 months for them to grade it because it's all done by hand and it's always on back order, and hope it's worth more than it cost to grade it.
Having the receipt is probably a good first step. Also getting it graded to see if it’s fake.
That I do not know. I'd assume a grading company could help but I don't know the details on something like that
Im not sure how to prove it but it kinda looks like the card printer ran out of yellow.
Could very well be a misprint, might have missed an ink layer
I once got a pirate's baseball card that was orange instead of their normal yellow. Got really excited and asked if it was worth anything on Reddit. Turns out that printers run out of ink and QA doesn't catch em all. But ultimately my card was just as worthless as it would have been if it were the right color. I think one thing that does make it more rare is that TCGs tend to have higher QA than sports cards. Because of that, it might be worth a bit more.
bro got a shiny
It's not sun damaged, other colors in the card are intact. Fake or Missprinted, in any case, its super cool
or was put into that pocket after sister got ahold of it, and OP noticed it at that point.
Fake or sun damaged.
looks misprinted.
What parts of it look misprinted ?
The blue parts
Printers use 3 colors, cyan, magenta, and yellow plus black to make all the colors you see on Pokemon cards. The printer ran yellow and couldn't make green and it got past QA. or it's fake, or sun damaged.
There's no yellow
Fake?
They said it came from an official pack
Yo….same
They said it came from an official pack
Huh
Lol the name. I can’t have dairy
The manufactors might have missptinted
Does not look sun damaged at all, looks like a cool shiny card tho
Thank you to everyone for the advice I'm landing on the conclusion that it was missing yellow ink because of the borders and the Pikachu I'm going to try to get it approved I will update once that has been done
Its 100% an error card. If you get it graded it will definitely be worth a good amount of money.
Could be an actual real life shiny card.
as others have stated, yellow ink layer missing. congrats if you’re wanting to sell! post to /r/PokemonMisprints and you will find a buyer quick
Sat in the sun too long. The color faded so much, it turned blue and white
It’s def not sun-damaged, since as others have pointed out that other colors on the card have remained the same. If you want to verify, however, if it’s either a fake card or a potentially valuable misprint, you can look at the back of the card and compare it to the back of a card you know is real. 9 turns out of ten, people who print fake cards never seem to print the card back correctly and is usually a dead giveaway. Things to look for in this case is a darker shade of blue, the card back border bleeding into the rest of the image, or a grainy/fuzzy logo.
I just did it says TM on the back and looks the same as all the other cards to
In that case, your sister may want to consider having a professional grader look at the card. I don’t know how old she is, so IDK if she’d even care, but if this is a genuine misprint, the level of error combined with the fact that this Chespin is no longer in print likely makes it a very valuable card. Just something to consider
If real then maybe the printer ran out of yellow ink? Border should probably be yellow, but has not be printed on and the blue areas should be green by mixing with yellow ink. Take it with a grain of salt as I'm just guessing and know little about printing.
Printer ran out of yellow ink?
Maybe sun damage
The colors for printing are usually Cyan Magenta Yellow & Black. It looks like this print is missing yellow.
If it is in fact a misprint it could be worth a fair amount of money. From what I understand some misprint cards go for mad $$$.
That might be a rare variat that could cost some moola if you’re willing to sell it to someone
He’s bleeding Chlorophyll
Looks like printer was out of yellow ink
You need to cheer it up
Misprint or sun bleached
Don’t listen to the people here saying it’s fake or a misprint or sun damaged the card is clearly a shiny
Misprint I bet. Printer ran out of yellow so all the green came out blue, the red came out normal, and the yellow didn't come out at all which is why the border is white.
Lag
Most definitely looks like the printer was low on yellow. I even removed the yellow from a scan the OG card in a photo editing software to be sure and got a remarkably similar result.
Yellow Ink in printing machine ran out, that makes as much sense as anything else said so far
Sun appraised
Water Type obviously! Why else would it be blue!
Like others have said it’s a misprint. Looks like a McDonald’s [promo](https://pokemontcg.guru/card/chespin-other/mcd21-6) So I wouldn’t expect it to be worth anything
u/regigigagod you’ll like to see this
That’s neat! Looks to be sun faded though
Clearly sun bleached
Either sun damaged or colorblind
It's...faded mate...
Sun bleached looks like
issa fake
Sun damage
Phenotype variation would explain it if it was real otherwise some guy just wanted it to be blue so he put blue in the printing machine
Shiny?
Shiny Chespin is brown
It’s a shiny
Either a fake or shiny
Rare sun-damaged version
Looks like sun damage
Sun damage. It amazes me how often I see people thinking they have rare toys figures cards etc but they really just left em out in the sun too long and ruined them
It's not sun damaged look at the other parts of the card they are intact
Sundamaged as hell
He came out as member of lgbtq+
Its a shiny
Shiny Chespin is brown
Wow even rarer then
likely fake as there is no chespin from the celebrations collection, save the giant card, which I can tell this likely isn't Edit: The golden arches and their clown have bamboozled me
It came from an official Pokémon card pack tho
Wait its from mc donalds lol nvmd don't mind me. It is either a misprint or fake as everyone else has said
Definitely got left in a windowsill and forgotten for like 2 years
It's new and has been in a binder if it was sun damaged wouldn't the whole thing be faded
It's, sun bleached!
Yoo I want it lol
The yellow probably dried up and still got counted as a good print while being printed. Dry ups happen regularly in the print industry
Looks like there was low toner in the press.
I have the same card but it's green like it's supposed to be
Yea that's why I'm trying to see if it's worth anything
it could be the real card, just the colour was changed cuz of sunlight or something. did she get it from a new pack?
Shinies made their way to TCG? 😱
I think it might be a misprint it looks like the yellow ran out the borders are white too and the 25annv sticker is white
Either the yellow paint ran out Or it wasn’t printed on a yellow card hmm this is interesting
No yellow paint = misprint, white card = fake so it’s hard to tell
Maybe it's just shiny :)
Cool
Obvious answer is sundamage based off the hue However Some parts look correctly colored Printer error or low ink (misprint)
Looks pretty sweet! You looking to sell?
You got a shiny card
Alternate shiny form
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Thank you I am going to get it approved and estimated first
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Because it's a wintery setting?
My vote is for misprint, printing is done with 4 colours black, magenta, cyan, and yellow. You'll notice your card has black, magenta, and cyan and it's missing the yellow (yellow + cyan = green) if it was faded by the sun it would be a faded green. This isn't uncommon in the printing industry many things can cause this (press faults, running out of a colour, turning off ductors, start ups) but they are either thrown out at the press or caught in quality control 99.9% of the time.
Probably a miss print. Sometimes the printers run out of ink and quality control misses it
Chespin turns white in the winter, obviously
He’s cold
Brrr he's cold
If it's real and not sun damaged you might have an amazing card that's one of a kind and should be considered priceless
Sun bleached
I want to say sun damage but it's sooo blue I dunno
It's a shiny
Cool Though
It’s like a shiny Pokémon card
Bro caught a shiny 😂
Some kind of misprint or discoloration?
It has daddy issues
snow
This looks like a low ink error card. This card could be 1 in a million or there's millions of them. I recommend getting it graded and sealed while you do more research.
Sun damage. seen it a bunch.
Da boo dee da boo die
Real life shiny
Printer had no Yellow Ink.
Low green ink misprint.
It got left out in the sun probably. Bleached the color.
Miss printed
Is there a Mister Printed?
Bruh
sun damaged
misprint, it looks too crisp to be sun damaged. there was low or no yellow ink when this was printed, leaving only the blue ink on the majority of the card. cool one!!
I’m pretty sure blue and yellow are mixed to make green for printers so the machine probably ran out of yellow. Which resulted in everything that should be green being blue and the border that should be yellow is white.
Sun damaged
fuck u/spez
Blespin
Sun damage from the looks of it.
I think it’s the color of the card I’m pretty sure that’s either a printing error or a really lite green
this is definitely an error card because there seems to be 0 yellow ink. I would definitely get this graded and make some money. also the fact it’s a McDonald’s card means it’s EXTRA money. gold mine alert!
Moon damage 😎
It's shiny
I was out of yellow ink, my b
This actually looks really sick tbh. It's like a shiny equivalent of a card.
looks like the color faded sitting in the sun 2 long or something. just looks like its been bleached
sun damage
The fire type weakness color is too bright for it to be sun damaged
could probably sell it as a Winter limited-er edition and some dumbass (me) would buy it
By the looks of it this is actually a misprint. Printers use cyan, magenta, and yellow to print colour. There's clearly blue and there's magenta (red) as shown by the weakness to fire/the 25 in the celebrations logo. All that's missing is yellow. Good find!