Scott 620..printer Missed This.

Hi guys..A little flyspecking but noticeable...The left ear of the Queen at the top of the ear ring is PINK...That is NOT part of her ear...The whole ear ring should have been the same colour...not earth shaking, but obvious.

Robert

Also, the centre bottom stamp, the queen seems to have pinker cheeks than on the stamp to the left.

I have always wondered about any documented specifications that stamp manufacturers might work under. I would think that before a contract was issued, both parties would want to iron out what was and was not acceptable in terms of quality. For example, the stamp gum has certain adhesion properties that must be agreed upon. Same for print quality. Normal business practices dictate this, the first time a customer returns a shipment for some issue the lack of a spec would become very obvious and problematic.

So I was wondering about Robert's title '…Printer missed this'. Was there a specification that outlined that color shifts had to be less than xx.xx? If so, what was it? If not, than virtually anything goes.

This seems to me to be a very important part of flyspecking, those stamps which fall outside of any specification would indeed be 'special' since those normally should be caught by quality control at the printers. In this situation, these variations become much less common as QA filtered out rejects. If there is no spec, than these things are would be considered normal, everything ships, and variations would be quite common.

Over the decades I have never seen a stamp manufacturing specification. There seems to be all the other typical pre-production documentation, (i.e. design studies, proofs etc.). Has anyone else ever seen one?
Don