Posted August 19, 20204 yr hey all! I was recommended I come try asking here about this wheel variant I found in my collection (on the right in the image) initially I thought it was faded or something, but the blue eyes and lack of anything where the yellow is makes me wonder otherwise. All the other coloured wheels ive got match the one on the left. Is this a variant? a factory error? something else? and are there more like it? thank you!!
August 19, 20204 yr 2 hours ago, harryg11 said: hey all! I was recommended I come try asking here about this wheel variant I found in my collection (on the right in the image) initially I thought it was faded or something, but the blue eyes and lack of anything where the yellow is makes me wonder otherwise. All the other coloured wheels ive got match the one on the left. Is this a variant? a factory error? something else? and are there more like it? thank you!! If these use CMYK printing, yours looks like it's an error where the coat of yellow ink wasn't applied. Hence the oranges showing up as magenta, the greens showing up as blue, and the yellows showing up as a white underlayer.
August 19, 20204 yr Author 44 minutes ago, Lyichir said: If these use CMYK printing, yours looks like it's an error where the coat of yellow ink wasn't applied. Hence the oranges showing up as magenta, the greens showing up as blue, and the yellows showing up as a white underlayer. ahhh thats great thank you! thatd make a whole lot of sense! is it a pretty common thing to happen with printed parts, or is this something quite unusual?
August 20, 20204 yr I'm pretty sure this was a factory misprint. Keep it safe! It might be quite rare.
August 20, 20204 yr Author 8 hours ago, Lego David said: I'm pretty sure this was a factory misprint. Keep it safe! It might be quite rare. ahh thank you!! ive got it in with all the other wheels at the moment, id be interested to know if there are any other examples of this?
August 20, 20204 yr On 8/19/2020 at 3:29 PM, harryg11 said: ahhh thats great thank you! thatd make a whole lot of sense! is it a pretty common thing to happen with printed parts, or is this something quite unusual? I don't think it's particularly common. In fact, I'm not used to Lego using CMYK printing in general—most of the printing they do, at least these days, is pad printing with pre-mixed ink colors. If this is CMYK (and the error you have suggests that it might be), then that makes the Roboriders wheels a bit of an exception to Lego's typical printing procedures.
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