Reissue covers not crisp

[Paul-K]

i have a lot of reissues with blurry covers. some look like they have scanned cd covers and made them bigger. some are a totally different cover.
any reason for this? I'm guessing the bootleg versions are because they are bootlegs. but I recently got the simply vinyl version of In Utero and compared to the original its all fuzzy and a totally different colour

[cratedigger]

Well, they match the general low quality of the actual records.

[Paul-K]

that cant be the main plan though?
lets make the cover blurry as we are making low quality records?

[bennyboy]

Usually it's impossible to get the original artwork so usually the original cover will be scanned and reworked, so depending on the company and the source material, results can vary a fair bit.