For some time, several postal administrations, including Austria, New Zealand and the United States, have made possible the creation of customizable stamps, both through a press and through the direct drawing on the stamp, serrated and with value and name of the postal administration.
German Posts, Deutsche Post, have created a new online postage service, called Internetmarke. This allows users to print, using their computer and printer, personalized stamps accompanied by colour images by accessing the post company website.
On the other hand, it is the objective of artistsamps, from English artist + stamp, that is, artist stamp, graphic compositions that recall, imitate, reinterpret or direct – in effigies – the postage issued by the postal services of the nations, but are not in any way stamps. These cartoons can also be created in pure digital form, or on poor materials, and accompany the authentic stamps in the postages necessary to make the composition travel.