I’ve noticed a couple of people posting about the underwhelming results of CCS lately. I’ve used other major Pressing companies as well and have noticed also some poor results. I’ve gotten the grader notes before sending them the comics and all were with defects that should have improved with a good press, however, most of the time those defects were not corrected with a press and thus resulted in the same grade or worse, a lower grade. At times it wasn’t even worth the time, effort, or money to get the comic pressed….and like I stated above, I check the grader notes and defects of the comics and I knew they were correctable with a good press.
So here’s my theory…as pressing comics becoming more popular and utilized, I suspect most of the major pressing companies are starting to get inundated with comics to press so they can’t dedicate as much time as they used to, to effectively press a comic. I suspect they do mostly a “quick press” rather than a full press with more dedicated time to remove creases and dry cleaning that would result in a more complete pressing. I think it’s a matter of economics…the more comics they can press in a shorter amount of time, the more money they can make. I suspect most of us request that the comics they send to the pressing companies be sent directly to CGC for grading so most of the time we don’t get the comics back from the pressors to check the results of the press, so even less likely the pressors need to worry about the customer checking their work and scrutinizing it.
The above is only a theory of course. What do you guys think? I’m hoping that maybe some of the pressing companies, that I know are active board members here, will chime in and give their input also.
I’ve noticed a couple of people posting about the underwhelming results of CCS lately. I’ve used other major Pressing companies as well and have noticed also some poor results. I’ve gotten the grader notes before sending them the comics and all were with defects that should have improved with a good press, however, most of the time those defects were not corrected with a press and thus resulted in the same grade or worse, a lower grade. At times it wasn’t even worth the time, effort, or money to get the comic pressed….and like I stated above, I check the grader notes and defects of the comics and I knew they were correctable with a good press. So here’s my theory…as pressing comics becoming more popular and utilized, I suspect most of the major pressing companies are starting to get inundated with comics to press so they can’t dedicate as much time as they used to, to effectively press a comic. I suspect they do mostly a “quick press” rather than a full press with more dedicated time to remove creases and dry cleaning that would result in a more complete pressing. I think it’s a matter of economics…the more comics they can press in a shorter amount of time, the more money they can make. I suspect most of us request that the comics they send to the pressing companies be sent directly to CGC for grading so most of the time we don’t get the comics back from the pressors to check the results of the press, so even less likely the pressors need to worry about the customer checking their work and scrutinizing it. The above is only a theory of course. What do you guys think? I’m hoping that maybe some of the pressing companies, that I know are active board members here, will chime in and give their input also.
