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[NCloyd1 at aol.com]

Just stopped in and got the skinny on cd s---silk screen vrs lable. the 
easiest way to tell is by the texture of the surface. The silk screen is done by 
placing a piece of silk over the surface and forcing the paint through as was 
done on the early JD tractors.Of course the process has been up graded in the 
last 50--100 years but  the tell tale textured surface remains.Silk screening 
will not have the sharp definition of print. One must be careful IDing the cds 
which have silk screened back grounds with  printed grafics and vice versa.My 
96 JD cd is labled. As both processes are machine done another tell tale 
feature is evident. The silk screened cds grafics  will always be concentric with 
the disc and the lables will often times be 'off center' . Both processes have 
very similar thickness of applied material so that the 'finger nail on the edge 
test' is not accurate.After studying the cds I have here at home it became 
easy to tell. Hope this helps.    Neale

Neale A Cloyd
26198 Sand Hill Trail 
Ames, Iowa 50010
Too many 2cyls & too little time