# Trick or trade - Test print holo pikachu? **URL:** \ **Category:** Question\ **Tags:** trick-or-trade, error, pikachu, cgc\ **Created:** [September 7, 2024, 11:35pm UTC](https://www.elitefourum.com/t/trick-or-trade-test-print-holo-pikachu/50237 "2024-09-07T23:35:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![JobbsterTCG](https://efour.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/www.elitefourum.com/jobbstertcg/32/107320_2.png) [@JobbsterTCG](https://www.elitefourum.com/u/JobbsterTCG)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2024, 11:35pm UTC](https://www.elitefourum.com/t/trick-or-trade-test-print-holo-pikachu/50237/1 "2024-09-07T23:35:35Z")
Hello everyone, anyone got some information about this card? The story behind? I check in the cgc site but i didn’t find anything about it. ![IMG_0535](https://efour.b-cdn.net/uploads/default/original/3X/f/6/f61c326191023fba3824b9a06bff25095f1563d7.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![eeveeteam](https://efour.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/www.elitefourum.com/eeveeteam/32/2219_2.png) [@eeveeteam](https://www.elitefourum.com/u/eeveeteam)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2024, 11:43pm UTC](https://www.elitefourum.com/t/trick-or-trade-test-print-holo-pikachu/50237/2 "2024-09-07T23:43:05Z")
Was recently in a post by @Quuador ---
**Author:** ![JobbsterTCG](https://efour.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/www.elitefourum.com/jobbstertcg/32/107320_2.png) [@JobbsterTCG](https://www.elitefourum.com/u/JobbsterTCG)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2024, 11:47pm UTC](https://www.elitefourum.com/t/trick-or-trade-test-print-holo-pikachu/50237/3 "2024-09-07T23:47:37Z")
Can you give me the link? ---
**Author:** ![eeveeteam](https://efour.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/www.elitefourum.com/eeveeteam/32/2219_2.png) [@eeveeteam](https://www.elitefourum.com/u/eeveeteam)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2024, 11:49pm UTC](https://www.elitefourum.com/t/trick-or-trade-test-print-holo-pikachu/50237/4 "2024-09-07T23:49:11Z")
It’s in the most recent purchase thread, 5 posts up. Can also click on the profile and see the most recent posts ---
**Author:** ![pfm](https://efour.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/www.elitefourum.com/pfm/32/254328_2.png) [@pfm](https://www.elitefourum.com/u/pfm)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2024, 11:59pm UTC](https://www.elitefourum.com/t/trick-or-trade-test-print-holo-pikachu/50237/5 "2024-09-07T23:59:48Z")
There’s some degree of speculation here… But a lot of modern uncut sheets have been ending up on the market in the last few months. This is probably one of them, cut from a larger sheet after making it out of the factory. Modern printing techniques are a lot more complex than what WOTC was doing, so explaining exactly what is being tested here or why the card has a ghostly look is beyond me ---
**Author:** ![Quuador](https://efour.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/www.elitefourum.com/quuador/32/237215_2.png) [@Quuador](https://www.elitefourum.com/u/Quuador)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2024, 12:24am UTC](https://www.elitefourum.com/t/trick-or-trade-test-print-holo-pikachu/50237/6 "2024-09-08T00:24:54Z")
Probably one of the many uncut sheets that were either stolen or taken out of garbage bins after some tests at a Pokémon TCG card factory. I remember seeing the full sheet near the start of August, and now there are a bunch of CGC graded square cuts on eBay, so they’re defintely NFC. Here is a video of the sheet I saved before it was cut. On one hand I dislike that a lot of these unique uncut sheets are cut up, on the other hand I now have an unique Pikachu added to my collection. 🤷 Greetz, Quuador ---
**Author:** ![eevee](https://efour.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/www.elitefourum.com/eevee/32/230472_2.png) [@eevee](https://www.elitefourum.com/u/eevee)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2024, 4:08pm UTC](https://www.elitefourum.com/t/trick-or-trade-test-print-holo-pikachu/50237/7 "2024-09-08T16:08:39Z")
I really like the whole sheet, but hate everything that goes on afterwards. Possibly stealing the sheet, cutting it NFC, charging a premium, etc. ---
**Author:** ![smpratte](https://efour.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/www.elitefourum.com/smpratte/32/79511_2.png) [@smpratte](https://www.elitefourum.com/u/smpratte)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2024, 4:37pm UTC](https://www.elitefourum.com/t/trick-or-trade-test-print-holo-pikachu/50237/8 "2024-09-08T16:37:32Z")
Has “test print” just become the umbrella term for anything that leaves the factory? If the mixture of recent sheets were stolen from the trash, couldn’t they be the higher likelihood of just being trash? I know the market is so big now that nothing matters anymore, but it just feels like the term is used without knowing the actual purpose of the sheets. ---
**Author:** ![c0ll3ct0r](https://efour.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/www.elitefourum.com/c0ll3ct0r/32/26306_2.png) [@c0ll3ct0r](https://www.elitefourum.com/u/c0ll3ct0r)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2024, 4:40pm UTC](https://www.elitefourum.com/t/trick-or-trade-test-print-holo-pikachu/50237/9 "2024-09-08T16:40:06Z")
Test print sounds sexier than butcher scraps. ---
**Author:** ![Dyl](https://efour.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/www.elitefourum.com/dyl/32/234623_2.png) [@Dyl](https://www.elitefourum.com/u/Dyl)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2024, 5:17pm UTC](https://www.elitefourum.com/t/trick-or-trade-test-print-holo-pikachu/50237/10 "2024-09-08T17:17:41Z")
Agreed, also more interesting than “printing mistake,” which could be the true purpose of it being thrown out. ---
**Author:** ![DarthEevee](https://efour.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/www.elitefourum.com/dartheevee/32/219955_2.png) [@DarthEevee](https://www.elitefourum.com/u/DarthEevee)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2024, 5:20pm UTC](https://www.elitefourum.com/t/trick-or-trade-test-print-holo-pikachu/50237/11 "2024-09-08T17:20:44Z")
Tbf a printing mistake _would_ be a test print but that’s semantics. It’s kind of weird the like…explosion of test/uncut/unreleased stuff coming out on the scene lately ---
**Author:** ![Dyl](https://efour.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/www.elitefourum.com/dyl/32/234623_2.png) [@Dyl](https://www.elitefourum.com/u/Dyl)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2024, 5:36pm UTC](https://www.elitefourum.com/t/trick-or-trade-test-print-holo-pikachu/50237/13 "2024-09-08T17:36:05Z")
A printing mistake is different than a test print. Test prints are evaluating something in the printing process (e.g., holo layers, ink opacity, colors, corner rounding, etc.), and occur during the development of the product before it is finalized and reaches consumers. Printing mistakes are exactly that - mistakes during the printing/cutting process that would make the cards/sheets unsuitable for end consumers. ---
**Author:** ![JobbsterTCG](https://efour.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/www.elitefourum.com/jobbstertcg/32/107320_2.png) [@JobbsterTCG](https://www.elitefourum.com/u/JobbsterTCG)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2024, 8:55pm UTC](https://www.elitefourum.com/t/trick-or-trade-test-print-holo-pikachu/50237/14 "2024-09-08T20:55:29Z")
Totally agree!!