Sun Ray Roy Orbison pressing anomaly

[scoliosispony]

Anyone know what the deal with that spot is? I picked this up at the Rolling Record Store at Bonnaroo and just noticed it when I went to play it just now. At first I thought it was sharpie, but it's got the feel of vinyl, and I can feel the difference in the texture of the label, but the transition from the spot to the label feels smooth, not like the label is just cut wrong, though my assumption is that's what happened. Anyone seen this before?

[arewhyehen]

Looks like one of the black vinyl pellets used to make the splatter was on top of the label when it was pressed

[scoliosispony]

That's interesting. I thought they affixed those afterward. Do they only do that sometimes? I know that's what they did on the Paramount box LP's.

[Kali Durga]

The Paramount labels were applied by hand because those labels are gold foil and would have been ruined in the pressing process. Labels are usually pressed into the biscuit by machine-- Press rekkid, affix label, all in one fell smoosh.

[bkramer10]

I've got random black dots on a couple labels for sunrays. They are more in the middle of the label than the inside/outisde edges

[mumbercycle]

Looks like one of the black vinyl pellets used to make the splatter was on top of the label when it was pressed

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