Printing colour differences with the Scream Eevee card?

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Hey guys, I’ll start by saying I’m not too knowledgeable on the Pokémon printing process, so this may be a common occurrence. During the course of the Scream promo I picked up double digits of each of the 5 available cards. Whilst going through them all today to determine which ones would be good candidates to send over to PSA, I noticed that 2 of the 13 Eevee cards I have are slightly paler or more washed out than all the rest.

Here is a screenshot of a 1,200 DPI scan I took of 1 of these paler cards I have next to a ‘regular’ card to show the difference, but I’m not sure how well it has come out after being compressed by Imgur:

There’s a fleck of dust on top of the Psyduck in the background of the card on the right - apologies for that. It took a good 20 minutes for my PC to process this scan, so I didn’t want to redo it.

I’ve digitally altered the image to show what the cards look like if cut in half and aligned on top of each other. The first image has the pale card on the left and the ‘regular’ card on the right, whilst the second one is the other way around:

I think the most noticeable difference is that the light reflections at the bottom of Eevee’s eyes are pink on the ‘regular’ card, whereas they’re more white or beige on the ‘paler’ card.

If this is a common occurrence with Pokémon cards then I’m happy to dismiss this as nothing too special, but I found it strange that 2 of the cards I own share this issue and are pretty much identical to one another in colour.

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Although it happens less frequently with Japanese cards, color differences are and have always been a pretty common occurrence. During the WotC era it was especially noticeable. Take all these Pikachus for example:

If we only look at the actual Base Set cards, you can still see quite a few of color differences on first glance. Some light yellow, some darker yellow, some only darker/lighter border, etc. (ignore the sun-bleached card…)

Sometimes the color differences are very clear (especially the bottom two of the picture below, but even the top two have slight color differences of the purple background):

As mentioned earlier, it doesn’t happen too often on Japanese cards, because they have much better quality control. So as bad as above probably won’t happen for Japanese cards. However, even with Japanese cards there have been noticeable color differences before. Here an example of that, which was posted by @linkdu83 a few months back in this thread:

Just like off-centered cards, miscuts, ink drops, print lines, and such, color differences can always occur, although happens more frequently with English cards than Japanese.

Greetz,
Quuador

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You can even find color differences in base set holos for example. Take a look at some Charizard listings. Some are darker than others. Kind of a darker orange tint.

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