How to split an ink-skin hickey on a textured-paper wine label
On a textured-paper wine label, split an ink-skin hickey this way: a lint hickey has fibre in the middle, ink skin is a piece of dry ink. Until you can tell them apart, do not adjust the press for the wrong cause.
On a textured-paper wine label, split an ink-skin hickey this way: a lint hickey has fibre in the middle, ink skin is a piece of dry ink. Until you can tell them apart, do not adjust the press for the wrong cause.
Name it wrong and you adjust the wrong place
A solid dark spot that wipes off or lifts off. Call it something else and you skip this step: check the fountain and the return first. Do not change the plate first. The wine name and the small type decide whether the label can go. They do not decide what you call the spot.
How to split them
| What you see | Closer to | How you split them |
|---|---|---|
| A solid dark spot that wipes off or lifts off. | an ink-skin hickey | Naming it off a single white spot |
| A lint hickey has fibre in the middle. Ink skin is a piece of dry ink. | Treat it as that other defect | Using the same adjustment |
| It sits on the wine name and the small type | Hold this area first | Ignoring the position just to give it a name |
Confirm it on the spot
- Look, by eye or with a loupe: A solid dark spot that wipes off or lifts off.
- Rule out: A lint hickey has fibre in the middle. Ink skin is a piece of dry ink.
- Check the fountain and the return first. Do not change the plate first.
