Can carbon dating be used on paper only 30 to 40 years old?

Subject: Can carbon dating be used on paper only 30 to 40 years old?

Date: Sun Mar 5 19:41:23 2006
Posted by John
Grade level: grad (non-science) School: No school entered.
City: London State/Province: No state entered. Country: United Kingdom
Area of science: Chemistry
ID: 1141612883.Ch

Message:


A collector claims to have had a number of movie posters from the mid 
1970's-80's 'carbon dated' to show that they are not reprints and says that 
the results proved that they were printed in the year of the film's release. 
Is this degree of accuracy credible when applied to such recent items? Many 
thanks for considering this question.

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