Sometimes postcards have lots of image artifacts
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Somehow with the postcard provider then end up printing the postcards in ways that look really low res and with lots of compression artifacts. I don't think this has anything to do with me--it happens on the back too and I use the same back image for everything.
I am currently in contact with the provider to see what they say
Weird that the Presorted etc... text is completely different. Maybe they are using different printers or have older infrastructure that they mix with newer?
Yeah that seems like a good hypothesis. And's wild because some of the fronts looked super crisp and amazing and some look like facebook meme reshare level of image quality (see the card in the back of that image).
I think at this point given the international trouble I had I am going to consider switching providers AGAIN (this is already provider 2)
Mine looks different from the two you posted. (Boxed postage, different font maybe, and PAID is in bold) But good quality though.
Okay so interestingly there are actually three different postage designs, and the crummy image compression postcards all have the same postage icon. This seems to align with the hypothesis that they use a crummy production shop occasionally
Fixed by switching to a new provider!