GDR - small collection of phase prints **
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Small collection of phasendrucke from the DDR, titled “kleine Sammlung Phasendrucke **”, in MNH (postfrisch) condition.
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small collection of phase prints ** Michel value over €2,700.00
Sofortkauf für 102 €
What are phase prints:
Anyone who enjoys picking up a brush – whether as an artist or as a DIY enthusiast – knows the inescapable truth: after the actual work comes the big cleanup – and it can cost as much nerves as the work itself. It may be a small consolation that others don’t fare any better. Every industry that handles paints faces the same problem. In the printing industry, color rollers and printing formes must be continuously cleaned to free the color wells again and thus guarantee constant color uptake capacity and print quality. Here, however, cleaning is not done with sponges and soap, but with dry ice, ultrasonics, or lasers.
In stamp printing, these cleaning processes don’t just yield razor-sharp and high-quality postage stamps. They also produce philatelic peculiarities that wonderfully document the manufacturing process of a stamp. After cleaning, the cleanliness of the printing formes is first tested before the actual printing job begins. That’s how proofs, trial prints, or phase prints come about.
In multicolor printing, the stamp image is gradually assembled with the help of several printing formes. So, for one stamp, several control passes are required – after all, every color should come from a perfectly cleaned forme. At the same time, the alignment of the different printing formes should be checked. Each phase of the print is tested individually. The result is the so-called phase prints.
Using the postage stamp issue of the GDR, e.g. (not in this lot) “20 Years of the Society for Sport and Technology” from 1972, the process can be followed pictorially. The stamp image of MiNr. 1777 consists of four colors: gray, turquoise blue, olive yellow, and violet ultramarine.
In the first step of the print control only the gray color is applied to unperforated paper. It is still impossible to guess which motif this might be. The second phase adds gray and turquoise-blue; the image could depict a rotor. In the third phase olive yellow is added. Now it is already clear that it is about navigation – and that the color registration marks align, the image parts fit together perfectly. The fourth and final phase shows the finished image and is – except for the perforation – identical to the final stamp.
These phase prints of MiNr. 1777 are, by the way, newly documented in MICHEL-Deutschland-Spezial 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 up to the four-color phase, i.e. two-color costs €40, three-color €60, and four-color €80. Not bad when you consider that ordinary stamps are in the cent range.
Phase prints, by the way, never carried postage value – not even the four-color ones. They don’t have to. They’re beautiful as they are.
Source Michel
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small collection of phase prints ** Michel value over €2,700.00
Sofortkauf für 102 €
What are phase prints:
Anyone who enjoys picking up a brush – whether as an artist or as a DIY enthusiast – knows the inescapable truth: after the actual work comes the big cleanup – and it can cost as much nerves as the work itself. It may be a small consolation that others don’t fare any better. Every industry that handles paints faces the same problem. In the printing industry, color rollers and printing formes must be continuously cleaned to free the color wells again and thus guarantee constant color uptake capacity and print quality. Here, however, cleaning is not done with sponges and soap, but with dry ice, ultrasonics, or lasers.
In stamp printing, these cleaning processes don’t just yield razor-sharp and high-quality postage stamps. They also produce philatelic peculiarities that wonderfully document the manufacturing process of a stamp. After cleaning, the cleanliness of the printing formes is first tested before the actual printing job begins. That’s how proofs, trial prints, or phase prints come about.
In multicolor printing, the stamp image is gradually assembled with the help of several printing formes. So, for one stamp, several control passes are required – after all, every color should come from a perfectly cleaned forme. At the same time, the alignment of the different printing formes should be checked. Each phase of the print is tested individually. The result is the so-called phase prints.
Using the postage stamp issue of the GDR, e.g. (not in this lot) “20 Years of the Society for Sport and Technology” from 1972, the process can be followed pictorially. The stamp image of MiNr. 1777 consists of four colors: gray, turquoise blue, olive yellow, and violet ultramarine.
In the first step of the print control only the gray color is applied to unperforated paper. It is still impossible to guess which motif this might be. The second phase adds gray and turquoise-blue; the image could depict a rotor. In the third phase olive yellow is added. Now it is already clear that it is about navigation – and that the color registration marks align, the image parts fit together perfectly. The fourth and final phase shows the finished image and is – except for the perforation – identical to the final stamp.
These phase prints of MiNr. 1777 are, by the way, newly documented in MICHEL-Deutschland-Spezial 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 up to the four-color phase, i.e. two-color costs €40, three-color €60, and four-color €80. Not bad when you consider that ordinary stamps are in the cent range.
Phase prints, by the way, never carried postage value – not even the four-color ones. They don’t have to. They’re beautiful as they are.
Source Michel
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Details
Era
1900-2000
Geographic origin
GDR
Condition
MNH (Mint never hinged)
Title
small collection of phase prints **
