Custom Stamp Album?

So now that I have, more or less, gotten my modified Steiner pages the way I want them (see below), I'm toying around with the idea of taking them to a local printer and having them printed out on nice larger-format paper. I don't really like the 8.5 x 11 size paper and have been putting them into page protectors, but still not sure how I feel about them.

My local printer said that they can print up to 12" x 18" One thought would be to print them on paper something like the type and size of a Davo album and then put them in a blank Davo binder. I think Davo pages are 10-3/4" x 12-1/4" Another option would be to print them on Scott Specialty sized paper and put in Specialty binders?

Not sure if I will go down this road or not, it may not be worth the effort and cost to do this, but just wanted to get people's thoughts on this. Anyone ever done this before. Anybody have a good online source of such paper?

Thanks!

Davo cost more but they will endure time. I really like my Davo binders when my Canada collection was host in Davo. For the paper, I told you before, many of the company who sell paper on the web cut it and drill it the size you want.

Here where I get mine

http://www.thepapermillstore.com/

I use 9x12 paper to fit in Unitrade Binders

here how it look, on their website once you finish the setting. to do this I take a 70 lbs 18x12 paper, ( $ 98 for 1000 sheet ) added a cut in the middle and 2 holes in each sheet, they do it as you needed . at then I have 2000 sheet for $ 138 US so .07 each page


I( means I add the cut and the drill on the ordering page, it's them who do it

I will say one thing it is a very nice looking stamp page. (Chris 2015)Due you use power point?

area66: thanks for the information, I will check them out.

stamps660: thanks so much, yes I use PowerPoint to modify my Steiner pages. I know the program pretty well from using it at work for many years and it does the job.

I agree. Sometimes I feel like just getting several Davo binders with blank quadrille pages and mount my stamps and write them up with pen the old fashion way!

At times I feel more like an album designer than a stamp collector

Chris check my website in a week you will see I'm also albums freak

As always it depends on your personal goals, but if you are interested in future resale value, my vote would be to print on Scott Specialty paper that fits SS binders. The simple reason is that there are thousands of them out there, and buyers of collections who have already committed to SS will find it easier to integrate your collection into theirs. So you have increased your future resale market. It's also less work than the cutting and punching that are associated with area66's approach.

I am one of those who committed long ago to SS, and when I come across a collection that is described as "mounted on homemade album pages" (or some other brand) it decreases the likelihood that I will buy it because I know that extensive remounting will be needed. Plenty of other buyers won't have this constraint, of course.

I assume you are talking about using blank Scott Specialty pages? If so, that would be cost-prohibitive at about 35 cents per page.




Hum, I would think that most people buying a collection or country lot would take the stamps and integrate them into their own collection instead of just using whatever album pages or albums they are in?

what work ...it's the paper company that do all the work.....

I understand perfectly how you feel, having the same frustration myself every now and then. Remember the motivation is the satisfaction to see your stamps presented exactly how you want to see them! Home-made is even better than tailor-made Stamp collecting is very much about aesthetics, so in my thinking you are absolutely a stamp collector - only with somewhat more cool
-Jon-

I've sometimes erred on the side of buying a lot because it comes in, say, an expensive Lighthouse binder/leaves, but I've never been deterred from buying by the binder used by the previous owner. In fact, unlike some others, I actually like a range of different binders, rather than uniformity. The law library look doesn't appeal to me.

Jon,
Thanks for the motivational push to keep going

-Chris