Heartland

There is a acution going on Tradera.com, a test press label sheet for the single This Corrosion.
Anyone know if this is a genuine thing, or is it easy to fake a test press ?

Is it supposedly proofs for the print job of the labels?

Easy peasy to fake; make up a pdf*, pretend you want 10,000 printed, go to a printers, they come back with the proofs, you say you don't want the job doing any more.

* You'd have to have a fair idea what a label-sheet proof actually looks like, unless you rely on the fact that most other people probably don't know what a label-sheet proof actually looks like.

If you're talking about Cromalin proofs mark back then they were still generated from the film and powder method, it's all digital inkjets these days, plus there usually is a date and time printed. The diference in feel and look between a tradition colour proof and an inkjet is very easy to spot. Your probably talking about a single colour job for a record label, so what I've just posted is a load of bollocks!

sorry

Oh silly me. It's easy to forget that computers haven't always ruled the world. And my Dad spent 20+ years in the printing trade (back when it was all done with lead, too)

When they used to run off (single colour) proofs at Dad's place, they'd whack the block of type in a hand-operated press, ink it up by hand and just run off a single imprint onto any old bit of paper. Not that they needed to; all the typesetters could read the type as easily as most people could read the right way round.

I have many happy memories of sitting during school holidays listening to the wshhhh-thump wshhhh-thump of those old Heidelburg offset litho machines.

*ahem* anyway. No then, it's probably not that easy to fake.