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Margin design print issue occasion: summary of the different margin design print occasion reasons

Attachment margin design print: margin of sheet printed with a marking that is inten-ded to make it easier e.g. to place it precisely in the perforation machine

Item number margin design print: margin of sheet printed with an internal identification mark, e.g. to facilitate reordering or sales

Day of issue margin design print: margin of sheet printed with the publication date on which this postage stamp was first sold to the post office counter

Barcode margin design print: margin of sheet printed with a machine-readable bar code that contains encrypted information (e.g. product number, sales price)

Sheet value margin design print: margin of sheet printed with an accounting aid that indicates the sales price of the entire sheet

Sheet counter margin design print: margin of sheet printed with a consecutive number for the purpose of counting the printed sheets

Copyright margin design print: margin of sheet printed with a note that this design print drawing is protected by copyright

Printing date margin design print: mar-gin of sheet printed with the date on which this postage stamp was produced

Printing works margin design print: margin of sheet printed with the name of the printing works in which this postage stamp was produced

Printer margin design print: margin of sheet printed with the name or abbreviation of the printer who produced this postage stamp

Designer margin design print: margin of sheet printed with the name of the designer of this postage stamp

Colour identification margin design print: margin of sheet printed with colour bars to control the automatically controlled ink feed

Form number margin design print: margin of sheet printed with an identification of dif-ferent printing plates for the same postage stamp

Franking validity margin design print: margin of sheet printed with the date up to which these postage stamps will be recog-nized by the post office as franking

Inhouse number margin design print: margin of sheet printed with a continuous order number as an internal identification of the Reichsdruckerei in Berlin

Year number margin design print: margin of sheet is printed with the year in which this postage stamp was produced

Cliché number design design print: margin of sheet printed with a consecutive number for postage stamps that were prod-uced using rotary press printing

Reprint counter margin design print: margin of sheet printed with the information about the reprint edition for Australian postage stamps (Koala Count)

Paper kind margin design print: margin of sheet printed with an identification of the kind of paper used (e.g. "L" = lumogen paper, "F" = fluorescent paper)

Registration mark margin design print: margin of sheet printed with a mark for checking the alignment of the individual printing plates during multicolour printing

Plate number margin design print: margin of sheet printed with an identification of different printing forms in a plate print for the same postage stamp

indication of the plate numbers using a different number of stars

Plate position margin design print: margin of sheet printed with an indication of the sheet position on a printing plate with several counter sheets

Plate edge margin design print: margin of sheet where due to the manufacturing process the edge of the printing plate was visibly printed

Postal area margin design print: margin of sheet printed with the information about the postal area in order to better distinguish postage stamps of the same colour from different postal areas

Row number margin design print: margin of sheet printed with an accounting aid that indicates the sales value of a complete verti-cal row of postage stamps

Corrected row number margin design print: margin of sheet printed with swapped row numbers which were corrected by past-ing over

Row counter margin design print: margin of sheet printed with an accounting aid that indicates the number of complete vertical rows of postage stamps still present in a partly counter sheet

Advertising margin design print: margin of sheet printed with postal or private adver-tising in order to protect the adjacent particularly heavily used postage stamp clichés from wear and damage during printing

Cutting mark margin design print: margin of sheet printed with a marking for exact cutting

Protective strip margin design print: margin of sheet printed with a colour strip to protect the adjacent particularly heavily used postage stamp clichés from wear and damage during printing

Control line margin design print: margin of sheet printed with a marking as a signal mark for the electronic guidance of the per-foration machine

Stroke line margin design print: margin of sheet printed with a bar that consists of many short lines to protect the adjacent par-ticularly heavily used stamp clichés from wear and damage during printing

Sum counter margin design print: margin of sheet printed with an accounting aid that is intended to make it easier to calculate the residual value of a torn vertical row of postage stamps

Tab margin design print: decoratively printed lower edge of the sheet on Israeli postage stamps

Separation notice margin design print: margin of sheet printed with a note that is intended to make it easier to separate out individual postage stamps

Roller number margin design print: margin of sheet printed with an identification of different printing forms in a rotary press print for the same postage stamp

Roller strokes margin design print: upper and lower edge of the sheet printed with lines on postage stamps that were prod-uced using rotary press printing

Perforation margin design print: margin of sheet printed with a marking that is inten-ded to make it easier to place it precisely in the perforation machine

Decorative margin design print: margin of sheet printed with decoratively margin design print