Bought FFVII last week on Amazon for $40, seller did not mention that it's a misprint edition ("masterpiece" on the back), nor this odd printing error in the manual. Is this unique to my copy of VII or has this been seen before?
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imgur.comPosted Mar 23, 2012, 8:30 PM UTC
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What you have there is the first run of FFVII. The misprint is on the back of all the first editions. It's definitely worth more than your normal black label copy, but it's not unique by any stretch.
I know about the misprint on the back, but is the printing error in the manual standard with all first editions?
Oh, OHHHH. I didn't even notice that the first time. No, that's not normal. Looks like a machine messed up when cutting that manual's paper. I wouldn't know how a unique machining error affects rarity, here. Possibly positively?
I tried Googling for it but I didn't find any results for printing errors regarding that specific page. Even if it's not worth anything, I still think it's kinda neat, even if it's not that special.
As far as the actual error goes, I'm guessing the machine messed up because that corner was folded when I was leafing through the manual. Page was folded so it was never cut right.
Cutting errors that get released into the wild generally are one-offs, if a whole batch was bad they would have trashed all the copies and re-run them.
Same with paper money printing/cutting errors, if it didn't get destroyed it was because it managed to slip through the QA process, an entire bad batch would get noticed.
I have a similar printing error with my Chrono Cross manual. The pages are still stuck together.