What would you choose? Perfect centring or Perfect colour? Updated with pics

[Silver Surfer]

If you have the patience, wait for one with the color of A and the registration of B. It's no fun to wait, but you might be glad you did?

 

Dan

 

When we are talking SA and BA books, absolutely.

[Conan_Aficionado]

[Silver Surfer]

Centering is great but once you have some bright, glossy high grade books in hand it will blow your mind. The Twin Cities books have fantastic color depth and they are something to behold in person.

[vaillant]

Hi everyone.

 

First I want to say thank you to everyone for sharing their input. It was truly appreciated and I am extremely grateful. There were many interesting arguments for both sides. After considering all the arguments I have decided to go with copy A. The colours look much better on the cover and the slight white spine is something I can live with.

 

So I made it official and pulled the trigger. I should have the book early next week.

 

I believe it’s a great choice. If it’s not the photo which misrepresents the colors, that copy’s cover looks truly white, and I am sure the white slight miswrap would not be annoying at all in hand. (thumbs u

[vaillant]

Problem is, they aren't completely interchangeable. The most desirable books are ones that have snow white page quality and unfaded interior inks that look brand new. While some of the books that CGC has graded w may on another day grade ow/w, a book graded ow/w should never have the snow white pages that look like they were just printed, the latter of which would grade w 10 times out of 10.

 

You have an important point here, more than fading it is the actual quality of inside printing, which depends on the registration of the color plates.

I am keeping some books in two copies for this reason: a book might have a great cover, perfectly centered, but worse printed interiors. There is also a problem of less coverage of the Black plate ink, which results in a lot less defined and "tridimensional" artwork. They seem little things but once you have the books in hand you’ll see how better a great printed copy is – for me the cover comes next. (thumbs u