[Printers] Austiran State Prrinters using Xerox Docucolor for personalised postage stamps

[Rein]

That would be great Consti!

Should you be able to find unused stamps the best way would be to have the  
stamp with sheet margin as in:

http://www.xs4all.nl/~dziewon/fila/various/at6917

having an order identification nr and plenty of white space to search for  
the yellow dots ! :)


thanks in advance, Rein


On Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:10:48 +0200, Constantin Hofstetter  
<Consti at Consti.de> wrote:

> Hi Rein,
>
> Thank you for your fast response -
> I am busy right now, so this email will get kinda short:
>
> I can try to email / call / talk to the ÖSD and try to set you up with
> an "audience" ;) [I live in Vienna]
> I can send you a couple of stamps - if they are not too expensive
> (they dont have to be any special "Sissi"-Stamps :P - so I guess they
> wont be too expensive after all ;) ) - free of charge.
>
> Let me know if you are interested!
> Liebe Grüße aus dem schönen Wien!
> Consti
>
> On 4/16/07, Rein <dziewon at xs4all.nl> wrote:
>> dear Constantin,
>>
>> Yes, you're right, I live in the Netherlands, in Leiden, about half an
>> hour by bike from the North Sea.
>>
>> What I discovered so far about the Austrian stamps is that the OeSD
>> [Österreichische Staatsdruckerei] probably had started off in july 2003
>> with a pilot using 2 or 3 Xerox machines, than at the end of 2003 when  
>> the
>> project got flying bought a bigger one, and eventually replacing that  
>> one
>> around june 2005. I can tell that from the MICs I have so far (15x8
>> matrix):
>>
>> 25.87.02.57 [pilot, november 2003]
>> 11.20.32.82 [pilot, october 2003]
>>
>> I haven't seen these two machine codes after january 2004.
>>
>> 65.80.02.37 [january 2004 - may 2005]
>> 86.74.78.38 [august 2005 - today]
>>
>> Not always the time+date dots are there! Could they switch that off?
>>
>>
>> It would be nice to have an 'official' confirmation from the ÖSD and  
>> have
>> the specific Xerox machine types identified. I would need a contact  
>> there
>> in the Printing Works, after what I can try to get an 'audience' there
>> arranged through the Editor in Chief of my magazine later on.
>>
>> Finding more material - i.e. stamps of that particular type -  
>> personalised
>> - is virtually impossible here. I won't find used stamps here, you might
>> find them in Austria more easily. The unused stamps I have so far I  
>> bought
>> on Ebay.
>>
>> http://www.xs4all.nl/~dziewon/fila/various/hund_01.jpg
>>
>> I scanned an used stamp I received recently to show you the type of  
>> stamps
>> involved. Unfortunately this was printed in a different matter - in
>> offset-litho for prestige booklets - and showing no dots! But you can't
>> tell that from the scan, can you :)
>>
>> grüße, Rein
>
>
>



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