Whether it is a digital postage machine type, or mechanical, usually mostly normal printer meter stamps. But sometimes, the post office in order to operate or use the shortcut date, postage is not restricted, They will directly pre-printed or print Meter stamp printed no postage amount or date. In China. Shandong, Shanxi, zhejiang, Inner Mongolia and other places have appeared, Shanghai also had the postal company was founded entirely preprinted meter stamps. Here, show european countries that appeared several meter stamps. Which Germany this two meter stamps, I don't understand is how the current printed up, as if to see real mechanical stamping on the same time and then heat transfer. Specific situation, please participate in the discussion. Sorry, my limited language skills, I hope everyone can understand!

@ frankit&meter [#1] Hello, every user has his own device, which can be old or very new. So meter frankings forcibly are very different. The 2 meters are dated 2004 and 2011, the newest type (matrix) is shown here. Regards Heinrich

@ frankit&meter [#1] Hi, all the meters with the K11 prefix machines [K = made by the German TeleFrank company, K1 indicate a machine type] I saw so far, show that "two colour" style. It seems that the date and value line is printed from a second (and different) ink cartridge, but from the same machine, at the same time. That is not an empty standard (blanc) frame with a later printed date and value; see http://www.philastempel.de/stempel/suchen/ablage/752 Some examples from the early "change from red to blue" transitional period still even show an (old) red date/value-line, while the frame is already printed in (new) blue; see http://www.philastempel.de/stempel/zeigen/63360 BTW, they are operated directly by privates/companies at their own locations. They are no post office meters. Sorry, no information about the Italian one. Regards Thomas

Thank you for everyone answer, Italian typewriter direct printing date.