GDR - small collection of phase prints **
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Origin: DDR, Title: kleine Sammlung Phasendrucke, Condition: MNH (mint never hinged).
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Small collection of phase prints ** Michel value over €2,700.00
Immediate purchase for €102
What are phase prints:
Anyone who enjoys picking up a brush themselves – whether as an artist or as a DIY enthusiast – knows the inescapable truth: After the actual work begins the big cleanup – and sometimes costs as much nerve as the work itself. It may be a small consolation that others are not doing any better. Every industry that handles paints faces the same problem. In the printing industry, color rollers and printing forms must be cleaned continuously to release the color droplets again and guarantee constant color uptake capacity and print quality. However, the cleaning here is not done with rags and soap, but with dry ice, ultrasound, or laser.
In stamp printing these cleaning processes not only bring us razor-sharp and high-quality postage stamps. They also create philatelic peculiarities that wonderfully document the manufacturing process of a stamp. After cleaning, the cleanliness of the printing forms is tested before the actual print job begins. Thus arise proof prints, test prints, or phase prints.
In multi-color printing the brand image is assembled step by step with the help of several printing forms. So for one stamp several inspection cycles are needed – after all, every color should come from a perfectly cleaned printing form. At the same time, the fit of the different printing forms should also be checked. Therefore, every phase of printing is tested individually. The result are the so-called phase prints.
Using the DDR postage stamp issue for example (not included here exactly) “20 Years of the Society for Sport and Technology” from 1972, one can visually understand the process. The stamp image of MiNr. 1777 consists of four colors: gray, turquoise blue, olive yellow, and violet ultramarine.
In the first step of print control, only the gray color is applied to unperforated paper. It is still impossible to guess which motif this could be. The second phase adds gray and turquoise blue – forming an image that could represent a rotor. In the third phase olive yellow is added. Now we already clearly recognize that it is related to shipping – and that the color register is correct, the image parts fit together perfectly. The fourth and final phase shows the finished image and is – apart from the perforation – identical to the final stamp.
By the way, these phase prints of MiNr. 1777 are shown for the first time in MICHEL-Germany Special 2023. To illustrate the valuation principle, we reveal their price here exceptionally: a price range of €20 to €80 is given. The low price applies to the first printing phase, i.e., the “stamp” in pure gray. The value then increases evenly until the phase print with four colors is reached, i.e., two-color costs €40, three-color €60, and four-color €80. Not bad when you consider that the normal stamps cost in the cents.
Phase prints, by the way, never had ordinance power – not even the four-color ones. They don’t have to. They are beautiful even so.
Source Michel
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Small collection of phase prints ** Michel value over €2,700.00
Immediate purchase for €102
What are phase prints:
Anyone who enjoys picking up a brush themselves – whether as an artist or as a DIY enthusiast – knows the inescapable truth: After the actual work begins the big cleanup – and sometimes costs as much nerve as the work itself. It may be a small consolation that others are not doing any better. Every industry that handles paints faces the same problem. In the printing industry, color rollers and printing forms must be cleaned continuously to release the color droplets again and guarantee constant color uptake capacity and print quality. However, the cleaning here is not done with rags and soap, but with dry ice, ultrasound, or laser.
In stamp printing these cleaning processes not only bring us razor-sharp and high-quality postage stamps. They also create philatelic peculiarities that wonderfully document the manufacturing process of a stamp. After cleaning, the cleanliness of the printing forms is tested before the actual print job begins. Thus arise proof prints, test prints, or phase prints.
In multi-color printing the brand image is assembled step by step with the help of several printing forms. So for one stamp several inspection cycles are needed – after all, every color should come from a perfectly cleaned printing form. At the same time, the fit of the different printing forms should also be checked. Therefore, every phase of printing is tested individually. The result are the so-called phase prints.
Using the DDR postage stamp issue for example (not included here exactly) “20 Years of the Society for Sport and Technology” from 1972, one can visually understand the process. The stamp image of MiNr. 1777 consists of four colors: gray, turquoise blue, olive yellow, and violet ultramarine.
In the first step of print control, only the gray color is applied to unperforated paper. It is still impossible to guess which motif this could be. The second phase adds gray and turquoise blue – forming an image that could represent a rotor. In the third phase olive yellow is added. Now we already clearly recognize that it is related to shipping – and that the color register is correct, the image parts fit together perfectly. The fourth and final phase shows the finished image and is – apart from the perforation – identical to the final stamp.
By the way, these phase prints of MiNr. 1777 are shown for the first time in MICHEL-Germany Special 2023. To illustrate the valuation principle, we reveal their price here exceptionally: a price range of €20 to €80 is given. The low price applies to the first printing phase, i.e., the “stamp” in pure gray. The value then increases evenly until the phase print with four colors is reached, i.e., two-color costs €40, three-color €60, and four-color €80. Not bad when you consider that the normal stamps cost in the cents.
Phase prints, by the way, never had ordinance power – not even the four-color ones. They don’t have to. They are beautiful even so.
Source Michel
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Details
Era
1900-2000
Geographic Origin
GDR
Condition
MNH (Mint never hinged)
Title
small collection of phase prints **
Has certificate or expert signature
No
