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About the 1991 copy of "The Jungle Book" you bought today...

You said you bought a 1991 copy of "The Jungle Book" that was printed on the 344th day of December, so I deduce there's a dark ink printing on the bottom spine that follows this code: "x 344 90 xxxx" The first digit is random (I think) and the last four indicate the time your copy was pressed. Does your copy have that sort of code?

Also, I have 1991 Canadian copy of "Peter and the Wolf" duplicated by AstralTech but with the same kind of printing; it reads, "5 354 90 0538" - that means it was printed on December 20, 1990 at 05:38 AM. I'm assuming this kind of printing was from a tape manufacturer and not a duplicator. Your copy was duplicated at Technicolor, right?

--MrServoRetro (talk), April 18, 2022, 09:00 PM (EST)

My copy definitely has a dark ink printing. The first digit on my copy, which I believe might be the digit of the spine label, reads 4. The day-year code part on my copy means my copy was printed on December 10, 1990 (344th day of 1990). The time part of the code reads 0641, meaning my copy was printed at 06:41 AM, and my copy was indeed duplicated at Technicolor, and it has the DTMF tone sounds at the beginning. My copy appears to be on a Memorex cassette with “MADE IN U.S.A.” moulded on the back right of it, although I can’t confirm if Memorex was the one that printed out this type of code information. It looks like this:

4 344 90 0641

The regular duplicator print code information, in grayish-white ink, on my copy reads this:

032291-A 000000-1-0 T-83

SPRING LEAD X18 53055

The conventional date code part means my copy was also printed on March 22, 1991. What the letter A stands for — I’m thinking it’s some sort of shift digit or something. I’m also thinking 000000-1-0 is the serial number, while X18 53055 is the initial number. I do know T-83 is the nominal length of the cassette, although the running length according to both the back cover of the clamshell, and the front tape label, which on my copy is the regular horizontal ink-label variation, is 78 minutes. 74.187.193.126 03:57, 19 April 2022 (UTC)