GDR - small collection of phase prints ** (H2-1)
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DDR origin, title kleine Sammlung Phasendrucke (H2-1), in MNH (postfrisch) condition.
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small collection of phase prints Michel over 2200 € ** (H2-1)
Buy-it-now for 88 €
What are phase prints:
Anyone who likes to pick up a brush themselves – whether as an artist or as a DIY enthusiast – knows the inescapable truth: After the actual work comes the big cleanup – and it sometimes costs as much nerve as the work itself. It may be a small consolation that others don’t fare differently. Every industry that handles colors has the same problem. In the printing industry color rollers and printing plates must be cleaned continuously to free the color droplets again and thus guarantee constant color uptake capacity and print quality. The cleaning here, however, is not done with rags and soap, but with dry ice, ultrasonic cleaning or laser.
In stamp printing these cleaning processes not only yield razor-sharp and high-quality postage stamps. They also create philatelic 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, test prints or phase prints arise.
In multicolor printing the stamp image is gradually assembled with the help of several printing formes. So for one stamp several control passes are necessary – after all, each color should come from a perfectly cleaned printing forme. At the same time the alignment accuracy of the different printing formes should also 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 (here not included) “20 years of the Society for Sport and Technology” of the year 1972, one can trace the process visually. 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 what motif this could be. The second phase adds gray and turquoise blue – it creates an image that could depict a rotor. In the third phase olive yellow is added. Now we can already clearly recognize that it concerns shipping – and also that the registrations align, 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 published in MICHEL-Germany Special 2023. To illustrate the valuation principle, we reveal their price here exceptionally: a price range of 20 to 80 euros 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., the two-color costs 40, the three-color 60 and the four-color 80 euros. Not bad, when you consider that normal stamps lie in the cent range.
Phase prints, by the way, never had fiscal 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 Michel over 2200 € ** (H2-1)
Buy-it-now for 88 €
What are phase prints:
Anyone who likes to pick up a brush themselves – whether as an artist or as a DIY enthusiast – knows the inescapable truth: After the actual work comes the big cleanup – and it sometimes costs as much nerve as the work itself. It may be a small consolation that others don’t fare differently. Every industry that handles colors has the same problem. In the printing industry color rollers and printing plates must be cleaned continuously to free the color droplets again and thus guarantee constant color uptake capacity and print quality. The cleaning here, however, is not done with rags and soap, but with dry ice, ultrasonic cleaning or laser.
In stamp printing these cleaning processes not only yield razor-sharp and high-quality postage stamps. They also create philatelic 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, test prints or phase prints arise.
In multicolor printing the stamp image is gradually assembled with the help of several printing formes. So for one stamp several control passes are necessary – after all, each color should come from a perfectly cleaned printing forme. At the same time the alignment accuracy of the different printing formes should also 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 (here not included) “20 years of the Society for Sport and Technology” of the year 1972, one can trace the process visually. 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 what motif this could be. The second phase adds gray and turquoise blue – it creates an image that could depict a rotor. In the third phase olive yellow is added. Now we can already clearly recognize that it concerns shipping – and also that the registrations align, 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 published in MICHEL-Germany Special 2023. To illustrate the valuation principle, we reveal their price here exceptionally: a price range of 20 to 80 euros 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., the two-color costs 40, the three-color 60 and the four-color 80 euros. Not bad, when you consider that normal stamps lie in the cent range.
Phase prints, by the way, never had fiscal validity – not even the four-color ones. They don’t have to. They’re 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 ** (H2-1)
Has certificate
No
Has expert signature
No
