Mispresses mean that they pulled out the wrong metal mother for one side or the other (or both). You can't press an already pressed record on one side, as was implied.
To press a record, you start with a blob of molten vinyl, which gets squished between the metal mothers. The extra vinyl which oozes out the edges of the mold is trimmed off and thrown back in the hopper to make more records. It might seem like this sort of thing shouldn't happen, but you have to realize that places like archer probably have thousands of metal mothers stored for repressing, and they tell them apart by the matrix number, which is scratched by the cutting engineer into the runout. This ends up plated into shiny metal, backwards, so it's easy enough to grab the wrong one. kent williams -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://jump.to/cornwarning -- Iowa's First Techno Record Label http://www.mp3.com/chaircrusher -- tunes
