Spine ticks and pressing

[zuulioso]

I searched over the past year for the topic and did not see anything so if there is a thread already, can someone point me to it?

 

My question is in regards to spine ticks and pressing. I have heard and witnessed what look like color breaking spine ticks that seemed to be cleaned up with pressing.

 

Am I imagining this or is there a way to determine whether a spine tick will be removed with a proper press job?

 

I had a book pressed and graded last summer that had a number of spine ticks and when it was done the book looked better and I could swear there were less. It ended up getting a 9.4.

 

There are a few books in my collection that look great other than about 4-5 ticks that I am just not sure if they will come out or not.

 

Seems like pressing shouldn't affect it. Am I wrong?

[Transplant]

If they're color breaking, pressing won't restore the color. It might flatten out the crease that caused the color loss.

[faster friends]

Sometimes a spine tick looks noticable because of the way the light strikes it. I pressing will help that.

 

But a TRUE color break will not be helped by pressing.

[MatterEaterLad]

Sometimes a spine tick looks noticable because of the way the light strikes it. I pressing will help that.

 

But a TRUE color break will not be helped by pressing.

 

This.

[Conan_Aficionado]

I've made a few 9.6 modern slab acquisitions in the last year, and you'd be surprised by how many non color breaking spine ticks of the 1/16 inch variety a 9.6 can have.

 

Even a 9.8 can have a 1/16 color breaking spine tick or a couple of non color breaking spine ticks.

 

I can almost say that I've been disappointed by the few 9.8's that I've bought because I had not expected them to allow certain defects, but they do, as long as they are very very minor.