[DCRM-L] Margins folded when printed

[Cawelti, Andrea]

Thank you both so much, sounds like this is just what I have.  I guess I've just never seen an "outie" before!
Gratefully, andrea

Today's Topics:

   1. Re: Margins folded when printed (Jane Stemp Wickenden)
   2. Re: Margins folded when printed (Erin Blake)


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Date: Sat, 14 Sep 2019 11:13:09 +0100
From: Jane Stemp Wickenden <jane.wickenden at zen.co.uk>
To: "DCRM Users' Group" <dcrm-l at lib.byu.edu>
Subject: Re: [DCRM-L] Margins folded when printed
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Hi Andrea,

I'd be inclined to say "Offset from plate due to folding error in fore-edge margin, page [ ]."

Whether there is a technical term, I'm afraid I don't know.

Best wishes,

Jane

On 13 September 2019 21:19:50 BST, "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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>(Ms.) Andrea Cawelti
>Ward Music Cataloger
>Houghton Library
>Harvard University
>Cambridge, MA  02138
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>Phone: (617) 998-5259
>FAX: (617) 495-1376
>E-mail: cawelti at fas.harvard.edu<mailto:cawelti at fas.harvard.edu>
>
>Coordinator, MLA Sheet Music Interest Group
>
>Houghton Library will be closing in August for renovation. For more
>information:
>https://houghtonrenovation.library.harvard.edu/

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Date: Sat, 14 Sep 2019 09:38:03 -0400
From: Erin Blake <erin.blake.folger at gmail.com>
To: "DCRM Users' Group" <dcrm-l at lib.byu.edu>
Subject: Re: [DCRM-L] Margins folded when printed
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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
>
> --
>
> (Ms.) Andrea Cawelti
> Ward Music Cataloger
> Houghton Library
> Harvard University
> Cambridge, MA  02138
>
> Phone: (617) 998-5259
> FAX: (617) 495-1376
> E-mail: cawelti at fas.harvard.edu
>
>
>
> Coordinator, MLA Sheet Music Interest Group
>
>
>
> Houghton Library will be closing in August for renovation. For more
> information:
>
> https://houghtonrenovation.library.harvard.edu/
>
>
>
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