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No extra pages for those great French engraved issues? I'm shocked!

Geoff

No, I don't like their design, 10 or 15 years ago I spent $ 400 or $ 600 at Gary Lyon to get the 4 Ceres to fill the place in my Scott Int, and I regret it.

Or you can just use blank quadrille pages for the extra stamps

Na, I better print directly on a blank page and it will look better than the Steiner's in plastic protectors, but I will still need interleave. I think the best will be to go with my idea of last year to redo all the page of Steiner and remove the expensive stamps, the one with different watermark and coils and print on paper I can order from a company the same size and holes than Scott Int. binders. It's easy to do with LibreOffice draw.

All true with the quadrille you don't need to decide what stamps will be there , you can add them as needed

I also started down that path until I realized that it would probably take me 10 years to do all the 6500 pages in the classic-era

Besides, I have neither the money nor the interest in collecting every country in that depth.

I don't want all the countries too. With draw I can make 50 pages in a night at work. I already started last year to mark with a marker the stamps I don,t want to include in a Scott Classic catalogue. I just have to print the Steiner pages as they are, make a X on the one I don't want and open the PDF in draw and make the change. But it's also a good reference to have the expensive one place, so in that case I can use AlbumGen from EzStamps to make my pages and print the image one the expensive one, they are included with EZStamps and I have all the countries. But it's a lot of work to make them, I did already US from 1965 to 2000. Or I just add image of expensive one to Steiner's with Draw.I will make one this afternoon to see

Ok on the first pic I have all the Hungary stamps, on the second pic I remove the Sc # 2 ( a $ 500 stamps ) , and on the third one the scan of the scanned border, on the first 2 pics I have to export in PDF to show it here and it don't work well. AlbumGen don't allow export in JPEG or PDF, you have to print directly. But since I have a the suite of Adobe I can print a PDF insted of on real printer, but the result is not good.


So I think with AlbumGen pages printed in color on Scott Int size papers I have a winner. I can also order Scott Speciality pages and print without borders, but it will cost more

Is not that beautiful, real paper, classic look of course I just make a quick setup, some spacing have to be adjusted

Very nice! I'm curious how you will print out on International sized paper. Do you have your own wide-format printer or will take to a commercial printer. Any idea of cost of printing or cost of paper?

At work I do have a 11x17 laser color printer and 2 b/w. many companies on internet sale paper and cut it and drill the holes the size you want for a minimal fee. If someone is on budget HP and Canon have inkjet printer 11x17 in the $ 200 range, of course the ink cost more than toner. I know for fact that inkjet make a mess on Lighthouse paper. The ink spread sideways on the paper making fuzzy lines, similar to water color paint ( aquarelle) on good quality cotton paper. Also Staples will print a PDF on paper you bring to them, but in the case of AlbumGen you can't save them in PDF. Since I will retire in few years I may make my own pages from starch using scan of my actual stamps and sell them, but it's a lot of work for so small profits. If I do so I will do country by country at first. I think something can be done for less than the 50 cents per pages I pay for Scott Int and certainly less than $ 1 a page from Palo. The best will be a group of persons working on it. 2 choices of pages can be offer, full Scott catalog and a comprehensive one with expensive stamps removed. Once a full page is done it's easy to remove few stamps. Maybe 3 choice Full, Stamps under $ 100 and Stamps under $ 50

I recently bought an HP Officejet 7610 11x17 printer on sale for C$155 (with tax). Just watch the sales, and one will eventually turn up.

BTW, I do have the Vintage reproduction pages to 1940 and am satisfied with them. I'd say paper stock is like Scott's Specialty pages.