Proof Read Printing..or...good Enough Printing.

Hi guys...I did a little analysis on 100 Scott 1931 ""flag over Canada Post Building""....This stamp printed in 2002 was obviously printed on sophisticated printing equipment...The lack of alignment proves they were in a hurry to print the run and not so worried what the product looked like.

SCOTT 1931


CHART MADE OF 100 STAMPS


EXPLANATION OF CHART INFORMATION BELOW...LEFT COLOUR IS COLOUR OF STAMP ABOVE THE FLAG ON LEFT SIDE OF BUILDING, AND THE COLOUR ON THE RIGHT IS THE COLOUR ABOVE THE FLAG ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE BUILDING.


The first picture is WHITE lines on both left and right side above the flag on the building.

Below is a stamp with YELLOW LINES.



Below is a stamp with RED lines.


Not earth shattering, but just shows how much Canada Post is worried about quantity and NOT quality now a days.

Robert

Hi Robert,
I assume that they had some kind of printing inspection drawing/specifications. I would also assume that this drawing/spec allowed for levels of acceptable color registrations. (If they did not, then why were the stamps not rejected at incoming receiving?)
Your point about the quality level is valid but perhaps the cost, amount of waste, of some other factors played into the decision to accept this level of registration. In fact, they could have marketing data which shows that the vast majority of stamp users simply do not care; they only want to stick a stamp on an envelope and have their mail arrive in a timely manor. If this is the case, then CP is doing the right thing by not spending additional money on something like this.
Don

Your probably right Don...It all boils done to money...Only stamp collectors would care what the stamps look like..The average person buying stamps does not care, and only worries whether or not the letter/bill/etc. gets to where it is going.

We have to live with it...

Robert

My father worked for the Post Office in the U.K., retiring in the early 1960s, having made it into the senior management ranks (albeit on the telecoms side). He once told me that, as far as stamp production was concerned, they didn't want anybody other than the GPO to make any money from their stamps, hence tended to have a culture of high quality printing.