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Originally Posted by Atheris
Now you got me thinking about some of the stuff I got. I didn't think it would be so common and worth a con-mans time as some of these prints are to complex to reproduce cheap enough to make it worth their while. My Mondo Hulk print and watchmen have metallic inks in them, I can't imagine that being easy to reproduce at a kinkos?..can it?
The only one I received that I had some doubts with was my Mondo Dredd print. The back side of the poster was not white paper like the other Mondo prints I have. Instead it was a darker white with obvious fibres in it everywhere. I remember looking at it when I first took it out of the tube and thought...did I just get ripped off?
Does anyone else have the Dredd print that can say of theirs came like that?
What exactly can I look for to spot fakes on these prints that I'm not seeing?
Chris
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I seriously doubt Kinkos has a setup to do metallic ink or screen prints. And many Mondo prints use different paper. I think it's the artist's choice of paper.
I've never heard to date of a fake Mondo screen print. Fake Mondo prints, yes. I posted that Tyler Stout fake Thing print. Close inspection will tell a fake in literally seconds as the paint has texture on a screen print / serigraph.
Edit - Apparently there are fake screen prints out there. There is a thread on EB. The fakes seem to be for far more expensive prints. The cost to fake a screen print correctly is probably too much for the average Mondo print. Just like with movie posters you would need what you know is an original to compare to the possible fake. This is why I put off collecting movie posters. Fakes of modern posters are so good that unless you know what you are looking at. You can't tell it's a fake. They are even making fake double sided posters.
