Printed On Both Sides

Does this constitute being printed on both sides or not? You can see the dark lines from the other side where the boarder is and also way higher. Thanks

Hi Stever,

No. This looks like a transfer. When it was originally printed, and stacked, the sheet below was still slightly wet and its impression was transferred onto the back of the sheet on top.

Still a nice copy. But not printed on both sides.

- stamporator -

Sorry, this is not a "printed on both sides" variety. After the sheets go through the printing press, the sheets are stacked up, one on top of the other. Often, the ink is not quite dry, so the back of the top sheet picks up ink on its reverse side from the sheet below. This results in a reversed image. For early issues this is quite common. A true printed on both sides stamp will have a positive image on both sides.

I thought what a nice image, I believed it was not considered printed on both. But what a great piece pretty vivid too. Thanks guys.

As far as I know, this type of 'variety' is known as an 'off-set'?

Chimo

Bujutsu

Yes, this is probably the most common example of offset. Sometimes offset is used when a stamp image is struck more than once while the paper sheet shifted slightly so that one image is not directly on top the previous image but is offset from it

Ok that makes it easier in IDing those. So they should mostly have ink on the rear of them in the offset printing press method is this a true assumption then? To bad it was not double image.

Truly printed on the back and of course reversed is called offset. The back printing occurs the same way that offset printing occurs. Transfer from being stacked on still wet stamps is properly called setoff. True offset on the back occurs when the press cycles without any paper. This transfers the ink to a blanket or pad or whatever (depends on the press). That ink is then applied to the back of the next sheet through while the front is printed normally.

jobi01 is correct.