GDR - small collection of phase prints **
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Small collection of Phasendrucke from the DDR, in mint never hinged (MNH) condition.
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small collection of phase prints ** Michelwert over €2,700.00
Buy now for €102
What are phase prints:
Anyone who enjoys picking up the brush themselves – whether as an artist or as a DIYer – knows the inescapable truth: after the actual work comes the big clean-up – and it sometimes costs as much nerve as the work itself. It may be a small consolation that others don’t fare any better. Every industry that handles colors faces the same problem. In the printing industry, color rollers and printing formes must be continuously cleaned to reveal the pigment droplets again and guarantee the constant color absorption capacity and printing quality. Here, however, the cleaning is not done with rags and soap, but with dry ice, ultrasound, or laser.
In stamp printing, these cleaning processes not only provide razor-sharp and high-quality postage stamps. They also create philatelic special features that beautifully document the production process of a stamp. Because after cleaning, the cleanliness of the printing formes is first tested before the actual printing job begins. This is how proofs, trial prints, or phase prints are created.
In multi-color printing, the design is gradually assembled with the help of multiple printing formes. So a stamp requires several inspection passes — after all, every color should come from a perfectly cleaned forme. At the same time, the fit of the different printing formes should be checked. So every phase of the print is tested individually. The result is the so-called phase prints.
Using the DDR postage stamp issue of 1972, for example, “20 Years of the Society for Sport and Technology” (not in frame here) illustrates the process. The design of MiNr. 1777 consists of four colors: gray, turquoise blue, olive yellow, and violet ultramarine.
In the first step of the print check, only the gray color is applied to unperforated paper. It is still impossible to guess what motif this might be. The second phase adds gray and turquoise-blue – creating an image that could depict a rotor. In the third phase olive yellow is added. Now it is already clear that it is about shipping – and that the registries line up, 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.
These phase prints of MiNr. 1777 are, by the way, first discovered in the MICHEL-Deutschland-Special 2023. To illustrate the valuation principle, we reveal their price here exceptionally: a price range of €20 to €80 is given. The lower price applies to the first printing phase, i.e., the “stamp” in plain gray. The value then rises evenly until the phase print with four colors is reached, i.e., the two-color costs €40, the three-color €60, and the four-color €80. Not bad when you consider that normal stamps run in the cent range.
Phase prints, by the way, were never worth postage – not even the four-color ones. They don’t have to be. They’re beautiful as they are either way.
Source Michel
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small collection of phase prints ** Michelwert over €2,700.00
Buy now for €102
What are phase prints:
Anyone who enjoys picking up the brush themselves – whether as an artist or as a DIYer – knows the inescapable truth: after the actual work comes the big clean-up – and it sometimes costs as much nerve as the work itself. It may be a small consolation that others don’t fare any better. Every industry that handles colors faces the same problem. In the printing industry, color rollers and printing formes must be continuously cleaned to reveal the pigment droplets again and guarantee the constant color absorption capacity and printing quality. Here, however, the cleaning is not done with rags and soap, but with dry ice, ultrasound, or laser.
In stamp printing, these cleaning processes not only provide razor-sharp and high-quality postage stamps. They also create philatelic special features that beautifully document the production process of a stamp. Because after cleaning, the cleanliness of the printing formes is first tested before the actual printing job begins. This is how proofs, trial prints, or phase prints are created.
In multi-color printing, the design is gradually assembled with the help of multiple printing formes. So a stamp requires several inspection passes — after all, every color should come from a perfectly cleaned forme. At the same time, the fit of the different printing formes should be checked. So every phase of the print is tested individually. The result is the so-called phase prints.
Using the DDR postage stamp issue of 1972, for example, “20 Years of the Society for Sport and Technology” (not in frame here) illustrates the process. The design of MiNr. 1777 consists of four colors: gray, turquoise blue, olive yellow, and violet ultramarine.
In the first step of the print check, only the gray color is applied to unperforated paper. It is still impossible to guess what motif this might be. The second phase adds gray and turquoise-blue – creating an image that could depict a rotor. In the third phase olive yellow is added. Now it is already clear that it is about shipping – and that the registries line up, 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.
These phase prints of MiNr. 1777 are, by the way, first discovered in the MICHEL-Deutschland-Special 2023. To illustrate the valuation principle, we reveal their price here exceptionally: a price range of €20 to €80 is given. The lower price applies to the first printing phase, i.e., the “stamp” in plain gray. The value then rises evenly until the phase print with four colors is reached, i.e., the two-color costs €40, the three-color €60, and the four-color €80. Not bad when you consider that normal stamps run in the cent range.
Phase prints, by the way, were never worth postage – not even the four-color ones. They don’t have to be. They’re beautiful as they are either way.
Source Michel
see photos
Details
Era
1900-2000
Geographic origin
GDR
Condition
MNH (Mint never hinged)
Title
small collection of phase prints **
