UncleAnwar Posted May 12, 2018 Share Posted May 12, 2018 At first I thought someone just added 2 staples to this book, but the more I look at it I'm not so sure. Only 2 staples puncture the cover. The other 2 just go thru the book. The 4 staples look similar in age /wear as far as I can tell? Anyone ever seen a defect like this? Or is it simply someone added unneeded staples at some point? Im guessing it's the latter, but thought I'd ask to be sure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bomber-Bob Posted May 12, 2018 Share Posted May 12, 2018 5 minutes ago, UncleAnwar said: At first I thought someone just added 2 staples to this book, but the more I look at it I'm not so sure. Only 2 staples puncture the cover. The other 2 just go thru the book. The 4 staples look similar in age /wear as far as I can tell? Anyone ever seen a defect like this? Or is it simply someone added unneeded staples at some point? Im guessing it's the latter, but thought I'd ask to be sure. I don't think it was manufactured like that. This may be a married cover situation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boatfund Posted May 12, 2018 Share Posted May 12, 2018 It can be manufacturing. Here is the thread where I asked the same thing about my DD 169 And DiceX was quoted from an even earlier post on this on how it happens: A publisher requires a certain number of books to be produced. During the bindery run, they have enough raw product to produce the run + a percentage predicted by the bindery allowed for waste. Say the run is 100,000 books and the bindery expects 3% waste...They receive 103,000 books worth of raw product. During the run there are books that jam up in the binder, or have odd flaws (untrimmed, unstapled, no cover, etc.). Those books are stacked to the side until the end of the run. When the raw product has been depleated, if the count doesn't add up to what the publisher ordered, they have to find a way to fill the order. They go through the "reject" skid to find any books that can be salvaged. There is usually nothing wrong with them, they just have been produced incorrectly. They take those books and piece together what they can. These books are bound by hand, stitched (stapled) by hand, then hand trimmed on a flatbed cutter. Whatever they have to do on a book by book basis. After "pulling rejects", if the order still has not been filled, they have to go back to press to run enough raw pieces to finish it off. Bomber-Bob 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UncleAnwar Posted May 12, 2018 Author Share Posted May 12, 2018 Wow, great info, thanks for the Intel. If that was the case, how would cgc ever know that? Like if I sent this in for grading, there's no way (I assume) that cgc would know if they were intentionally added at printing due to an error, or if an owner married a cover later down the road (like the first replier said). I'm guessing it would have to get the "staples added" designation right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Philflound Posted May 12, 2018 Share Posted May 12, 2018 Yes, that is a remainder copy and the extra staples don't affect the grade at all. newsstand_hunter 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JollyComics Posted May 13, 2018 Share Posted May 13, 2018 I have seen those books with green labels. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Philflound Posted May 13, 2018 Share Posted May 13, 2018 2 hours ago, JollyComics said: I have seen those books with green labels. Examples? I have never seen any. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
