When done I moved some of the countries to 3 ring binders but would return them to the cabinets when I was not working on those countries. I kept many out permanently, European Countries, GB, Canada, Australia. This has worked fairly well. I did have some trouble matching stamps to frames as the descriptions were very brief. So these are not for the beginner you must have a full set of catalogs they can be older ones to save money, but it is a very large task and expensive even using someone elses printer and toner.

One reason to try this route, I was using Scott International Albums and the way they are arranged it is very difficut to put the years together they are double sided pages and when one country stops the other side of the page is the next country. Also airmail and special use stamps are at the end of each country so even if you could rearrange pages the airmail and other stamps were scattered through the album. The albums were costing $70 each and made it dificult to look at a single country.

I do not particularly like either approach but the stamp albums pages do use standard sized paper and do fit in standard binders. It is also easy to make a special page to show off blocks or color shade varieties or cancels or covers and bring them into the album

For countries where I specalize I am using Hagnar double sided stock sheets. they allow maximum flexability but are expensive even when you buy 500 pages at a time.

Bill

and thanks for comments.

I have to admit that I personally always assumed DIY stamp pages were the cheapest alternative. But doing this comparison series (and math behind alternatives) has been a real eye opener.

Time spent on printing is very complex issue to review (which is why I left it outside the scope). Older (and cheaper) laser printer models usually print 20-30 pages per minute; modern (best of the breed) laser printers can work up to 100-200 pages per minute. So there can be huge differences in this.

Hopefully you will like the upcoming parts too.

Best,
-keijo-

If someone is still interested, in my site http://www.albumdeestampillas.com.ar I sell pages that are stampalbum.com pages translated into spanish.
So long, I’ve done it just for american countries.

Best,
Pablo