GDR - small collection of phase prints ** (H2-1)

Small collection of phase prints Michel over €2,200 ** (H2-1) Buy-it-now for €88 What are phase prints: Anyone who likes to pick up a brush himself – 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 nerves as the work itself. It may be a small consolation that others feel the same way. Every industry that processes colors faces the same problem. In the printing industry color rollers and printing formes must be cleaned continuously to free up the color wells again and thus guarantee constant ink uptake capacity and print quality. However, cleaning here is not done with rags and soap, but with dry ice, ultrasonic or laser. In stamp printing, these cleaning processes not only yield sharp, high-quality postage stamps. They also create philatelic specialties that wonderfully document the production process of a stamp. After cleaning, the cleanliness of the printing formes is first tested before the actual printing job begins. Thus, proofs, trial prints, or phase prints are created. In multicolor printing, the design image is gradually assembled using several 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 between the different printing formes should be checked. Therefore, each phase of the print is tested individually. The result is the so-called phase prints. Using the postage stamp issue of the GDR, for example (not included here in one lot) “20 Years Society for Sport and Technik” of 1972, one can visually trace 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 control, only the gray color is applied to unperforated paper. It is still impossible to guess which motif it is. The second phase adds gray and turquoise-blue colors – it creates an image that could depict a rotor. In the third phase olive yellow is added. Now it is clear that it concerns maritime navigation – and that the register 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 were, by the way, first revealed in MICHEL-Deutschland-Special 2023. To illustrate the valuation principle, we will reveal their price here unusually: 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., the two-color version costs €40, the three-color version €60, and the four-color version €80. Not bad when you consider that regular stamps are in the cent range. Phase prints, by the way, never had franked postage power – not even the four-color ones. They don’t have to. They’re beautiful even so. Source Michel see photos

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