If there's one thing (okay, there's like 30 things) that I've taken away from all this is how much value PSA places on a card's print job when determining the card's grade.
For years, we've seen people bash PSA by posting comparison scans of two cards in different PSA grades that seemingly have the same quality centering and corners and then spout "grading is a scam! these are the same condition!"
But what we've seen over and over in this thread are cards getting bumped because their print jobs have been artificially improved. Even one card went from a 9 to a 10 just because it had some black border areas on its back recolored.
It's become clear to me that PSA has been absolutely factoring in a card's print job while the common submitter has been paying the least bit attention to it.
Arthur
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