Help to identify if Cover Artwork is real or bootlegs

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Hello all, just stumbled over something where i am not sure if i am blind, its a scanning error or just bootleg uploads. I was looking to scan missing stuff for the db, and found it over this release:

my front cover:

deleted the old front only before i checked this, but a scan of front+booklet back is still there:

do you see the white lines around the text on the front?

generally really pixelated art. Disc scan is just a copy of the front etc.

my front+booklet back: (didnt upload it to mb jet because i need to edit it first^^)

https://i.imgur.com/K3wlh6V.jpeg

no white boarders…

Now i watch a bit over the art uploads of the same user and found this:

his back:

discogs back:

(yes its smaller etc)

colors looking off for me, font also, and again, white boarders around stuff. just zoom in at the corner of the hearth where it gets dark.

also here:

white boarders around her hair.

so now i dont know, can this be a scanner problem?

maybe someone has releases too that got artwork from the user and can check is something seems off. from i quick view i only had the jonesmann mixtape. just wanted to ask if someone has seen something like this? thanks :slight_smile:

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Those “white lines” just look like Moiré patterns to me.

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I agree with biocv. It just looks like a difference between scanners, or the scanner settings.

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Scanner software often has an option to sharpen the image, sometimes even as the default setting. These scans were probably treated that way. But I think they are real scans from what was very likely an original cover. However, it’s a good thing to replace the images with better scans. :slight_smile:

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thank you all for the answers. looks really like a scanner thing, never knew about it :smiley:

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I have two different printers with scanners attached. The printer that is three times the price of the other has a rubbish scanner. Scanners can be very different to each other.