Steiner Pages For Canada

So, currently I am using a Harris album for my Canada collection. It has pages through 2004. The newer stuff is piling up, so I'm trying to come up with a solution. Buying all those supplements seems a bit daunting and pricey. I recently came into Steiner pages that I think are complete up through 2011. I'm tempted to use them, although I'd still missing the last 6 years. I like the Harris pages, but the page size is an oddity, of course, and I'm not a big fan of the 2 post design. Advice? Thoughts? Is it worth the hassle of remounting what I have in the Harris album currently? I'm pretty complete from maybe the mid 1930's to well into the 80's with some exceptions. Are recent years available for Steiner pages? I just started a Great Britain album with a similar style to Steiner, as the pages have no stamp illustrations, only boxes. It's a challenge located the right spots for the stamps.

So...let's hear your thoughts, please, and thanks for helping.

According to http://stampalbums.com/status_report.asp the Canada Steiner pages are available through 2015.

Thanks, dk. I did finally find that. Do you think subscribing to Steiner's page is a worthwhile option even if I only need 5 or so years worth of supplements?

There is another option available, PostmasterGeneral's Stamp Album page generator. You'll never lack for a page again, limited only by your imagination.

https://goscf.com/t/32942

Or try Mr. Simpson at http://albumpages.net, officially sanctioned Steiner page printer if you only need a limited number of pages.

Also FreeStampAlbum.com. Kind of "Steiner-like"

http://www.freestampalbum.com/

IMHO, Steiner's pages are absolutely worth it. Several years ago I made a small program which logged in and downloaded all of the files (I paid of course). Seeing as how that was 2006, I am tempted to renew my subscription to get an updated copy of things.

Steiners album pages are great for printing out an entire countries worth of stamps, which for me is a goal when I start aa new country. I personally can't stand world style albums that only have a small subset of a countries stamps. Yes, it takes up space, but isn't that what growing your collection is all about? :)

Ok, off my soapbox. (no, I do not have any affiliation with Steiner, I just love the pages he has produced).

Very happy for content stampers. I did the Steiner pages printing for the early years of CANADA stamps - Did not like the format. I realized I had EzStamp as my inventory software.....had EzPerf for perforation evaluations,EzImage for scanning and formatting your scans, incl dividing many stamps at a time, and suddenly someone discussed AlbumGen which is connected to EzStamp and produces the albums you desire, the Scott #s (not Unitrade), the pics in color, the right size for the Stamps etc. The text can be modified to reflect Unitrade Cat.......so you are in business. I like it ! A little investment goes a long way......and I do not own shares in the Company !

You're really asking if there's a way to print new Steiner pages on pages that are the Harris album page size such as on Harris blank pages or pages cut to Harris size. If there were, that would be your solution.

You "sort of" can do that but you'd need (a) a wide-bed printer to handle the large sized paper, (b) access to the Steiner website (or his CD which has the same stuff on it) for his page layouts, and (c) probably another binder to handle all the new pages. Plus, you'd have to hole punch the pages to fit the Harris binder. For me, it's often the hole punching that's the biggest hurdle since they're not usually punched at a standard spacing. Or maybe they are. Better check.

Pages printed from Steiner will have the same layout and be the same size (layout was designed for 8.5 x 11" pages) on whatever paper you print unless you manage to figure out a way to reformat and resize his pages which is just a little complicated for my non-computerized mind. That means you may end up with margins that are too large for your taste. Not sure. The larger the page you print on, the more large margins will be a problem if what you're printing remains the same size, I'd think.

Unless you can remove Steiner's page borders or play around with them in some other way. Or maybe this won't bother you at all. There is a way to save Steiner's pages (pdf format) into PowerPoint format which, in turn, allows you to change the layouts, borders, etc. while in Powerpoint before you print them out. I haven't been successful with this, however. A big "however". One option to do this is "SmallerPDF". It's free online! But that may be putting the cart ahead of the horse since there are other choices, too.

Alternately, you could buy Harris blank pages or get a print shop to cut some for you in that size as well as hole-punching them for you. Then you can mount newer stamps on the blank pages.

Or use the Steiner pages for all the modern issues and just put those pages into a separate three-ring binder. It would be a different size (8.5 x 11" presumably) so maybe that wouldn't appeal. But there's nothing wrong with mounting different eras in different binders, especially since album publishers do sometimes abandon an album or go out of business and who wants to remount all those stamps in a brand new album?

One more: The seller of preprinted Steiner pages (see above) prints them in the standard U.S. formats: 8.5 x 11" computer paper size, Minkus page size, and Scott Specialty page size. I wonder if one of those sizes would sort of fit the Harris Canada album? Maybe measure and find out. If it's "close" that might be your solution. I've had some of these pages printed for me, and the pages are very nice. The only problem I've found is that the "overlap" year with your existing pages repeats some stamps you will already have spaces for. If you ask for pages for 2000-2017, for example, the first few pages for 2000 will inevitably repeat stamp spaces you already have. No way around that since he prints using the Steiner format. I'd just mount some duplicates there, I suppose. Oh, also, the paper color is very bright white so might not harmonize with the pages you have. Not sure.

Good luck.

Oops wrong thread.

Google StampWright Supplement Service. It is a store on ebay that sells a Harris based Canada album. Don Wainwright apparently purchased the rights to publish the album from Harris (Whitman Publishing). He stocks the complete album as well as supplements. Same format as the original and the paper is better!
Good luck.