Pulp pressing & cleaning. Is this really a good idea? 0

[Bugfarm]

So with pulp grading and slabbing I see they are now also offering pressing & cleaning services.  In my many years of pulp collecting I have never heard of this being a thing.  With the fragility and poor paper quality of the books, is this a wise thing to do?  I mean in the short term I suppose it could improve the look of the cover, but is there a possibility it could do long term damage to the paper?  Thoughts and opinions would be appreciated.  Personally, I’m hesitant to have this done.

[MattTheDuck]

I don't know that much about the pressing process, but it does seem to me you have a higher chance of doing damage to these books which I would say on average are quite a bit more fragile than comics due to age and paper.  @joeypost could weigh in on this.  Although I don't know if he's actually been pressing pulps, he would have a good sense of how the process might impact these books differently.

[joeypost]

It would have to be a book by book evaluation, like many older more worn comics. I have done worked on many pulps over the years and things can go south quickly if you are too aggressive in your approach, especially the dry cleaning and prep stages. 

[Upgrayedd2]

The thought of cleaning a pulp worries me. More so for my pulps that appear to be above the 7.0 grade. And even scarier, some of these high grades look like a cleaning would make a significant difference. If I ever submit a high grade copy, I gonna over capture so many high-res images. 

Would be interesting to hear from (reputable) pulp cleaners on how pulps compare to comics wrt cleaning.