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Re: Misprinted Leonora heads?
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Sat, 16 Sep 2000 00:11:17 GMT
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In lugnet.castle, Richard Marchetti writes:
> In lugnet.castle, Rick Kurtzuba writes:
> > Before I request a replacement for the replacement, I want to ask:
> > has anybody here had the same problem?
> 
> Don't let them get away with this.
> 
> The only benefit of Lego over competing brands is the quality of the product --
> if they can't deliver on this, then who needs 'em?  And I have had this
> smeared printing problem too, just not with Leonora's head but rather with her
> skirt.  Shiri asked about the female astronaut the other day, and I posted a
> picture of it (http://members.aol.com/blueofnoon/lego/images/femastro.jpg) -
> take a closer look, the printing is smudged (look at the hairline, although I
> am not sure it shows in this image -- I might have reduced the resolution so
> that the smudging is no longer obvious).  And I have a misprinted Green-haired
> racer chick, and several paradisa babes besides (no hope for the latter
> though, out of production AND as such constituted a misrepresentation on the
> packaging of the Paradisa sets I recently purchased at Toy Liquidators -- the
> box showed open-mouthed paradisa babes, and I got common town cuties instead).
> 
> Yeeesh!  And these figures are so far only appearing in high-priced sets.  If
> these figures appeared commonly elsewhere, I'd probably never call the
> consumer affairs people -- I mean, why bother over trivialities?  I have a
> misprinted Jet or two, but who cares?  She's easy to obtain.  But if they are
> going to play hide and seek with these other figures, I expect to get well
> printed elements for sure!  Can you imagine tolerating a misprinted C3PO or
> Leia (sp? for SW characters is not a strong point of mine)?
> 
> The more complicated and finer-lined the features become, the worse the
> printing gets.  And if they can't guarantee the printing every time because of
> sloppy quality control, then they should make these minifigures more readily
> available or be VERY accomodating when people file their claims for better
> printed elements.
> 
> -- Richard

I never had a screwed up smiley head . . in fact I never had any printing
problems untill this year.  just a couple of heads that were faded on the
sides. It is a screen printing thing. 1 color no prob.  2 colors that don't
touch: rarely a prob (like the female town face) but when you start having
many colors and intricate pattrens the problems become noticable.  I bet the
were the same amount of mis printed heads in the past it just didn't matter
that the head rotated 1 degree during printing ect.  Just my two cents.

John



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(...) Don't let them get away with this. The only benefit of Lego over competing brands is the quality of the product -- if they can't deliver on this, then who needs 'em? And I have had this smeared printing problem too, just not with Leonora's (...) (26 years ago, 15-Sep-00, to lugnet.castle)

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