It varies from pressing plant to pressing plant. I made a few records in the late 80's/early 90's and the number of test presses we received varied between 3 and 20. Some pressing plants would accept an order for 1 copy, while others wouldn't accept orders smaller than 500 copies. Peter Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2012 08:44:10 +0200 From: Antti Lavio <antti.lavio@possu.org> To: "All bound for Mu-Mu Land." <klf@mailman.xmission.com> Subject: Re: [KLF] KLF 010-IT Message-ID: <4F4F1ABA.80706@possu.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed On 1.3.2012 0:52, Ross Jarvis wrote:
The question is: How rare?
As with almost every collectable item, I suppose it comes down to how many were initially available
It's impossible to say without knowing exact amount of records pressed. It's bit hard to believe these "only 3 pressed" claims, as I don't believe that any pressing plant would do only 3, even if it was a test press. BTW, there's a good article about vinyl pressing at http://www.crimson-ceremony.net/pr3/pressingplants/intro_tp.html http://www.crimson-ceremony.net/pr3/pressingplants/intro_vinyl.html It also mentions Orlake and MPO, which KLF also used.