Keep Postal systems alive, buy stamps and mail often 05 Jan 2012 08:53:23am
re: Printing album pages: what paper to use, what sources for home-made album pages
I have designed and printed over 600 pages for my US collection and have come across this same situation...I found leaving the space for the stamp and imprinting a very light image of the missing stamp with $10000+ in the center allows me to have all the numbers in my books but does not take away from the perspective of why you do not have this stamp. I also like the fact I can add personal choice items, blocks, letters, etcetera. It was extremely fun designing theses pages along with Canada, Japan also albeit time consuming. Perry
The past is a foreign country, they do things different there. 05 Jan 2012 01:57:01pm
re: Printing album pages: what paper to use, what sources for home-made album pages
To any album page-printing expert out there in the ether:
Is there a "free" download which would allow me to print album pages (international collection) ? I've a Macbook Pro but am no pro and haven't found a download, free or otherwise, that I feel confident of using. Advice, anyone?
John Derry (DRYER)
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re: Printing album pages: what paper to use, what sources for home-made album pages
Grmer. ll you hve to do is to print pges without the . Tht wy, you will never see ny stmp tht hs minor number nd you'll never hve spce tht cn't possibly be filled. it should work in US collection s well s Cnd collection.
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re: Printing album pages: what paper to use, what sources for home-made album pages
Bill Steiner offers a subscription to his 50,000 album pages covering the world. The fee is very reasonable, and you can either just get the online or the online and cd. I get both. They are well done, and include plenty of stamps not listed by Scott. I used the pages for the non-listed things, and for stamps listed by Scott, but for which they don't make pages, such as North Korea, Cuba, back-of-book, etc.
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Perry your pages look beautiful. I wish I had the time to creat my own album pages. Have you ever thought of saving your page files to share with others?
I can appreciate the time you have spent laying out the pages. I have tried a few using applications such as Microsoft Publisher and PageMaker. It is an art of skill, patience and persistance. Creating your own album adds a new dimension to the hobby as well as a higher level of satisfaction.
I am on my third set of commercial albums and have been less than satisfied with all of them. The sites that do offer print your own pages use PDF for the most part which doesn't allow the user to tweek their own pages. Of course it does not matter what format the files are in the user still has to have the software application to make changes.
Keep Postal systems alive, buy stamps and mail often 08 Jan 2012 01:02:53am
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I DO HAVE EVER PAGE SAVED IN CASE I NEED TO CHANGE IT DUE TO FINDING AnyTHING NEW TO ADD...EVERY PAGE IS UNIQUE TO MY WAY OF COLLECTING, HOWEVER I SAVED IT IN .WPG FORMAT WHICH IS WORD PERFECT... Perry
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I have been creating my own album pages ever since I had a computer, which is over 15 years ago. As far as rare items go, whether I include spaces for them or not depends on a number of factors.
First of all, many times I start with a simplified collection. So I would leave spaces for all stamps, rare or not.
If early stamps are rare, I will start my album pages to cover the time where I have material available, and create pages for earlier years only if and when I acquire the material.
If I want to collect more specialized material, like watermark variations, I'll replace the album pages with new ones that have spaces for the varieties I want to collect. If a particular variety of a set is hard or too expensive to obtain, I'll probably leave it out altogether. If most of the set is accessible but one or two items are rare, then I'll allow space for all of them, but just leave gaps unfilled.
That's just what suits my tastes, and I've mentioned it as a starting point for your own thoughts. You can decide to do what appeals to you.
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I bought the Steiner CD years ago, and it was the best money I ever spent. Back then, he included the PageMaker files so that I could make changes... as long as you have the PageMaker program. I bought this (on eBay) as well, just so I could edit the pages. While it takes a fair investment of time, I now have album pages for several countries that include scott numbers and color info below each stamp. I wish that I could share the files with other users, but the Scott people would take a pretty dim view of the practice (in other words, it's a clear violation of their copyright... it's OK for your own use to use their numbering system, but it's not OK to distribute)
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Dumb question of the day, what type or weight of paper do you use for making your album pages? In the future I am looking at making pages for the foreign stamps I am getting and I do like what some of you have done way tooo cool. I will need to figure out how to find information on the foreign stamps tho which I have had little luck with especially the Anne Frank stamp I just obtained with two others.