GDR - small collection of phase prints **
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From the DDR, a small collection of phasendrucke titled “kleine Sammlung Phasendrucke **” in mint never hinged (MNH) condition.
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small collection of phase prints ** Michelwert over €2700.00
Immediate purchase for €102
What phase prints are:
Anyone who likes to grab a brush themselves – whether as an artist or as a handyman – knows the inescapable truth: After the actual work comes the big cleanup – and it sometimes costs as much nerves as the work itself. It may be a small consolation that it happens to others too. Every industry that works with colors has the same problem. In the printing industry, color rollers and printing formes have to be cleaned continuously to uncover the color droplets again and thus guarantee the constant color uptake capacity and print quality. The cleaning here, however, is not done with rags and soap, but with dry ice, ultrasonics, or laser.
In stamp printing these cleaning processes not only give us razor-sharp and high-quality postage stamps. They also create philatelic special features, which wonderfully document the production process of a stamp. Because after cleaning, the cleanliness of the printing formes is first tested before the actual print job begins. This is how test prints, proof prints, or phase prints come about.
In multi-color printing the design is assembled step by step with the help of several printing formes. So several inspection passes are needed for a stamp – after all, each color should come from a perfectly cleaned printing forme. At the same time, the fit of the different printing formes should be checked. So each phase of the printing is tested individually. The result are the so-called phase prints.
Using the postage stamp issue of the GDR for example (not to scale here) “20 Years of the Society for Sport and Technology” of the year 1972, the process can be conceptually traced. 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 what the motif might be. The second phase print adds gray and turquoise blue – it creates an image that could represent a rotor. In the third phase olive yellow is added. Now we can clearly see that it is about shipping – and also that the registries (passen) line up, the image parts fit together perfectly. The fourth and final phase print 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, appearing for the first time in the 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 print phase, i.e., the “stamp” in pure gray. The value then increases evenly up to the four-color phase print, i.e., the two-color costs €40, the three-color €60, and the four-color €80. Not bad when you consider that normal stamps are in the cent range.
Phase prints, by the way, have never had rate validity – not even the four-color ones. They don’t have to. They’re beautiful even so.
Source Michel
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small collection of phase prints ** Michelwert over €2700.00
Immediate purchase for €102
What phase prints are:
Anyone who likes to grab a brush themselves – whether as an artist or as a handyman – knows the inescapable truth: After the actual work comes the big cleanup – and it sometimes costs as much nerves as the work itself. It may be a small consolation that it happens to others too. Every industry that works with colors has the same problem. In the printing industry, color rollers and printing formes have to be cleaned continuously to uncover the color droplets again and thus guarantee the constant color uptake capacity and print quality. The cleaning here, however, is not done with rags and soap, but with dry ice, ultrasonics, or laser.
In stamp printing these cleaning processes not only give us razor-sharp and high-quality postage stamps. They also create philatelic special features, which wonderfully document the production process of a stamp. Because after cleaning, the cleanliness of the printing formes is first tested before the actual print job begins. This is how test prints, proof prints, or phase prints come about.
In multi-color printing the design is assembled step by step with the help of several printing formes. So several inspection passes are needed for a stamp – after all, each color should come from a perfectly cleaned printing forme. At the same time, the fit of the different printing formes should be checked. So each phase of the printing is tested individually. The result are the so-called phase prints.
Using the postage stamp issue of the GDR for example (not to scale here) “20 Years of the Society for Sport and Technology” of the year 1972, the process can be conceptually traced. 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 what the motif might be. The second phase print adds gray and turquoise blue – it creates an image that could represent a rotor. In the third phase olive yellow is added. Now we can clearly see that it is about shipping – and also that the registries (passen) line up, the image parts fit together perfectly. The fourth and final phase print 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, appearing for the first time in the 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 print phase, i.e., the “stamp” in pure gray. The value then increases evenly up to the four-color phase print, i.e., the two-color costs €40, the three-color €60, and the four-color €80. Not bad when you consider that normal stamps are in the cent range.
Phase prints, by the way, have never had rate validity – not even the four-color ones. They don’t have to. They’re beautiful even so.
Source Michel
see photos
Details
Era
1900-2000
Geographic origin
GDR
Condition
MNH (Mint never hinged)
Title
small collection of phase prints **
