2022 Cryptozoic CZX Crisis on Infinite Earths - CZX STR PWR #S09 - David Harewood as J’onn J’onzz Printing Plate Black

It's pushing 5 a.m., I'm glad that I'm at least attempting to catch up on my rest while waking up in the 3 o'clock hour with full intention to catch a few more hours of Zs this morning, and I'm in No-Fs mode on today's post. I put a bunch of long eBay URLs in a text doc while researching those live action trading cards, and now I'm deleting the last of them specific to that research. This is the same image as CZX STR PWR #S09, but news to me, they started throwing the actual printing plates for individual cards into packs as chase variants. It makes me wonder why comic books never got around to putting color guides into blind/black bags-- probably because the dimensions are too big to fit without folding. No disrespect to colorists, but I never "got" color guides as a collectible, though this amuses me in a "use everything but the squeal" way. I assume these are one of a kind, excepting that there are individual plates for black, cyan, magenta, and yellow. I guess the biggest surprise to me in the age of laser printing is that we're still using individual color plates in the process at all. Is that a necessity for the holofoil?