Scan your stamp collection to make a record for insurance or to swap images at stamp shows.

All you need is a flatbed scanner. We offer suggestions on equipment and software.

To trade stamps you can scan what you have to offer. If you wish to sell your stamps, you can scan your collection to get a better bid from buyers.

Show your inventory at stamp shows or via the Internet. Just be sure not to violate the law (we digitally erased key parts of each stamp so as not to reproduce it fully).

You can create your own stamp album, by scanning your stamps and then printing them in color. QMS and Tektronix make the best color printers (color laser).

Avoid Epson ink jet printers, its inks are excessively costly and you are required to use special expensive paper to achieve full quality. Also, Epson printers may blow their ink heads if you print text only (text with no pictures). After one of our Epson printers ruined its head before the 100th print, two other Epson printers were junked after 6 months because the ink was too overpriced. Besides the print quality was not what the advertisements claimed.

Try an Alps printer: dye sub does not fade like Epson ink jet prints,which lose their color rather quickly, even inside.

Just place the stamps on a flatbed scanner and press the buttons. Use LinoColor in pre-scan or use Photoshop to clean up your mistakes in post-scan imaging.

Updated: May 26, 2004
Previously updated Jan. 12, 2004. Page first posted circa 2000-2001.