where's the PN?
tough to see on the scans, and I'm a little rusty on printing technology, but I wonder if that's just a joint line pair, where the rotary plate completes its rotation and begins again
Have you tried looking at it in UV? It could also be the tagging break - it is possible to see it very faintly
Peter
Took me a while to check, broken leg, but there is a tagging gap between the left stamp and the plate number stamp. Still it doesn't explain the black dots on the left stamp, or does it?
Keith
the tagging gap adds support to my thought that it's a joint line pair, where a rotary plate starts and ends and begins another rotation
Amsd, that is possible, but all the coil stamps I have seen have the joint line to the right of the plate numbered stamp. The plate number is always on the last stamp of the plate'
Peter
I didn't think they still produced line pairs.
Keith
Keith, any time two plates are abutting one another you're going to have a joint line. In modern printing presses though they can be very hard to see. Some stamps that have some nice lines are the 25 cent Bee coils where they exist in several colors. Some of the Flag coils also have visible lines where the plates meet,
Peter
Time for me to pay more attention to recent coils. Thanks Peter
I was asked to post a high resolution image. 1200dpi. disregard the red line in the the strips, its from the scanner. It is the black dots between the strips and the perfs.
looking to me like a joint line pair, although I don't know that these are acknowledged by Scott anymore
I just received the new flag PNC P111 and the is a faint dotted black line 1 left of the PN.
Has anyone else noticed this?
Very hard to see in the scan.
Keith
re: New Flag PNC with line
where's the PN?
re: New Flag PNC with line
1 left of the plate number
re: New Flag PNC with line
tough to see on the scans, and I'm a little rusty on printing technology, but I wonder if that's just a joint line pair, where the rotary plate completes its rotation and begins again
re: New Flag PNC with line
Have you tried looking at it in UV? It could also be the tagging break - it is possible to see it very faintly
Peter
re: New Flag PNC with line
Took me a while to check, broken leg, but there is a tagging gap between the left stamp and the plate number stamp. Still it doesn't explain the black dots on the left stamp, or does it?
Keith
re: New Flag PNC with line
the tagging gap adds support to my thought that it's a joint line pair, where a rotary plate starts and ends and begins another rotation
re: New Flag PNC with line
Amsd, that is possible, but all the coil stamps I have seen have the joint line to the right of the plate numbered stamp. The plate number is always on the last stamp of the plate'
Peter
re: New Flag PNC with line
I didn't think they still produced line pairs.
Keith
re: New Flag PNC with line
Keith, any time two plates are abutting one another you're going to have a joint line. In modern printing presses though they can be very hard to see. Some stamps that have some nice lines are the 25 cent Bee coils where they exist in several colors. Some of the Flag coils also have visible lines where the plates meet,
Peter
re: New Flag PNC with line
Time for me to pay more attention to recent coils. Thanks Peter
re: New Flag PNC with line
I was asked to post a high resolution image. 1200dpi. disregard the red line in the the strips, its from the scanner. It is the black dots between the strips and the perfs.
re: New Flag PNC with line
looking to me like a joint line pair, although I don't know that these are acknowledged by Scott anymore