One of the most striking pieces of information about the border on that COLB is the fact that the border was not pre-printed on the form (according to Hawaii’s Dept. of Health), which means that the design of the border was programmed into the software that prints the data on the COLB form.
Therefore, the border design can be changed only by a change to the software that prints it. Once that change is programmed and tested, all subsequently printed forms would have the same border design until the software was changed again.
It is beyond unlikely that the State of Hawaii has component-based software where the border design is selectively interchangeable resulting in multiple border designs per year.
The border is a hand-drawn graphic which remains unchanged for two years, at a minimum. Switching them during the year would defeat the purpose of having a standardized border.
Hawaii uses some kind of form-fillable template (of which there are many off-the-shelft products) that, except for the borders, remained unchanged from 2001 until 2007. For some reason, not only was the border changed for 2008, but also the aspect ratio of the form (the prior layout is about 96% the size of the 2008 template).