Back in the days when you have Dansco, Whitman making neat albums for foreign coins, there's something that they gambled. That is world coins would be popular and that they would make a profit. This was back in the 1960 - 70s. Bad timing - world coins were not too popular until the late 80 - 90s. Of course with any business that you run, you always need to ensure that you have enough demand to run your business otherwise you'll go kaput. Fair enough, very understandable. You see, I'm still awed over how impressive the old Dansco albums were made for foreign coins. I only have the Japan type set album and Fiji year set and these are very collectable even up to now. These albums I believe were made more than 40 years ago and they still look better than some of the modern albums out in the market. I believe Dansco will need to produce at least 1000 albums before they may consider reprinting an album. At let's say 40-50 dollars each, it's a fair amount of money. Not feasible unless you have researched your market throughly. What crossed my mind is when I read the article about printing 3D gun - appearently functional. Put the danger side away, why can't 3D printer be used to create customized coin albums? Have a few random ideas like the digital album I have created: Soviet type set http://gxseries.com/numis/rus_new_type/russia_1921_91_type_pg1_small.jpg Early 5 kopek year set http://gxseries.com/numis/rus_new_type/russia_5k_24_pg1_small.jpg South Korea type set http://gxseries.com/numis/koreatype/album/korea_1959_type_pg1_small.jpg Manchukuo year set http://gxseries.com/numis/china/album/manchukuo_pg3_small.jpg And the list goes on. Beauty of this is that you can change the language to any foreign language other than English and annotate whatever you like. Suppose the material used for printing is inert. Why not have an open source coin album design if this can be doable?
