Technical difference between wrinkle and crease?

lightningboy

Is a crease simply a wrinkle that goes through to the other side of the card?

53BKid

In my experience, a wrinkle only is seen on one side of the card.

A crease goes through, and can be detected on the other side.

Morgoth

Yep creases are visible or can be felt on both sides of the cards while a wrinkle is normally only in the top paper layer on one side of the card. Most wrinkles come direct from the printer with them and are just a defect in the card making process. Creases are the effect of abuse on a card and normally are not caused at the factory.

Factory mishandling can result in creases formed before cards get put into packs so its never 100% one way or the other

lightningboy

thanks

KbKards

When you're buying you'll call it a crease. When you're selling you'll call it a wrinkle.

mexpo75

LOL good point!

fkw

IMO
Crease is obvious....

To me, when I use the term....
A wrinkle is only really obvious if you hold card at angle to a light.

Or sometimes I use the term "factory wrinkles". These are usually made in the card stock manufacturing process, or sometimes in the printing or cutting process (rollers?).

This Musial was hammered for having "factory wrinkles" the whole length of the left border, otherwise it really has EX+/NRMT type wear.