[ARSCLIST] LP album cover printing

[John Bondurant <John_Bondurant@xxxxxxxxx>]

This weekend my cousin's wife, who works for International Paper, told 
me that she understood that IP "invented the printed cardboard record 
sleeve" and produced these at their plant in Indianapolis. While on a 
recent trip there she was shown an area in this vast facility (it 
apparently was added onto over and over during the years) where they 
still have material relating to this production, including album art 
color separations for offset printing. They don't use this stuff 
anymore, but she was told they can't get rid of it "because it is too 
valuable."
Has anyone ever heard about this before, or is this some bit of IP lore?

John H. Bondurant
Sound Preservation Archivist
Hutchins Library, Special Collections & Archives
Berea College
CPO LIB
Berea, KY 40404

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