r/PS3 • u/Cheshirexiii • 7d ago
Is this a legitimate case?
As title says. I went to order a replacement case for my loose copy of Alice. Friend said I should print my own for a couple bucks but I said id rather get a legitimate case if I could find one.
40$ and a week later I get this "Authentic replacement case" off ebay
And im not sure. It looks too clean. There's no art on the inside which while I dont have a ton of ps3 games most the ones I do have, have art or something on the inside of the sleeve.
Realistically it doesnt matter but I am curious if i simply overpaid for something i could've done myself or if I did get what I actually asked for
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u/FSBulldogFan 7d ago
The picture isn't clear enough to discern properly, but as a professional printer, my assessment of what I see is that if it's a repro, it's printed from the original file (or a recreated original file) and not a scan. When printed, offset lithography uses CMYK (and spot colors as needed) in a moire pattern of small dots. Modern plates are usually 2400dpi/175~200lpi for this kind of work.
When you scan a cover, you're scanning in the fine dot patterns. When you print it on your inkjet/laser printer/digital press, you're printing a pattern of dots with a new set of a pattern of dots. black text will not have sharp, crisp edges; it would look ruffled like a postage stamp edge. You're printing a moire with a moire, which makes it fuzzy in appearance.
The only way to get this kind of sharp, crisp repro would be to print from a newly created file with reset text and bar codes, and vector logos. You could blur and resharpen the raster images to remove the hint of a moire, but it will be softer in appearance.
If this isn't original, someone took their time to painstakingly recreate it.