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It is the easiest to identify, because it carries the marks of how it was made. It is a flat round, cut out of a sheet of material. Its surest sign is the edge. The edges are sharp, almost square, cut at a hard angle. Sometimes they have been deburred by hand, which leaves a slightly uneven, somewhat rough finish.

Zoom in on the edge with a good phone or a microscope and the clean cut is obvious: the cut of a sheet, not of a moulded piece. Above all, the disc is perfectly flat, with no relief at all.

Everything in its shape recalls a real vinyl record, because it is made the same way. Three signs never lie:

1. The “teardrop” rim. The outer edge is not cut clean: it shows that slight rounded, convex relief, exactly like a pressed vinyl record. It is the signature of pressing, impossible to obtain by cutting.
2. The recessed label seat. At the centre, a pressed blank has a shallow recess to receive the label. The label is glued into this seat formed during pressing, which a flat disc cut from a sheet does not have.
3. The range of colours. Pressed blanks come in a far wider range of colours than cut discs, which are often limited.