# Many of the Pokemon playtest cards were likely printed in 2024

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> [@Dirge](#):
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> Does this mean they’re all fakes or just some of them?

I’m still digging into it. All I can say is that I’ve seen evidence of 3 different printers for the coloured variants and one of them has 2024 in the metadata (majority of the beta). The majority of the alpha have a different set of print dots.

for example:

 ![image](https://efour.b-cdn.net/uploads/default/original/3X/4/7/47a6b0190821d32e8a3d909e6359843596a7a21c.jpeg)

I have a guess at the printer brand. I don’t believe print time is encoded but the printer model should be in there.

In other words:

- High quality beta = no dots
- Low quality beta = dots in the OP
- Alpha playtest = dots above

This is my general observation, there are exceptions

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