[DCRM-L] Margins folded when printed

[Erin Blake]

That looks to be an example of a "printer's crease" -- they're not uncommon
in intaglio printing (and they're one of the reasons I'm glad I was an art
curator at a research library rather than a museum: for curators interested
in fine art, they're flaws, so you need to pay more for a perfect
impression; for curators interested in printing history, they're evidence,
so you can save some money).

Typically, printer's creases are "innies" rather than "outies", though, so
they create a little sliver of uninked paper somewhere in the design, not
an extra bit of inking, like this.

Erin.

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On Fri, Sep 13, 2019 at 4:20 PM Cawelti, Andrea <cawelti at fas.harvard.edu>
wrote:

> Fellow catalogers, I have an odd situation here in an engraved score: the
> right margin of the last leaf appears to have been partially folded (the
> paper is quite thin) under the printing plate, leaving a strange
> diamond-shaped splodge along the margin.  Has anyone ever seen anything
> like this before?  I’ve attached a photo, which may or may not make it
> through (if anyone would like to see it, please email me and I’ll attach it
> separately).  I’m mainly concerned about how to describe this situation,
> and whether there is some kind of genre term which covers it.  Grateful
> thanks for any suggestions!
>
> andrea
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