Postage Stamp Paper
Over 120 security printers and postal authorities throughout the world are confident that anyone who tries to counterfeit their stamps will be detected. They rely on trusecurity stamp paper.
Our postage stamp paper is expertly manufactured in a totally secure environment. Functional enough to withstand the world’s postal systems and continuously evolving, to keep ahead of the forgers.
Our water activated gums and pressure sensitive adhesives are market leading. We can build our layers of security into these, as well as into the paper.
Security features
- The coating
This is the foundation on which our layers of additional security features are added.
- Smoother paper, with controlled absorbency, improving the look, feel and durability.
- Our own specialist coatings.
- Customers can add further levels of protection, such as security inks and holograms.
- Taggants
- Covert embossed images
- Chemical sensitization
- Covert and overt watermarks
- Planchettes
- Fibres
- Frangibility
Benefits
- Coating designed to support printed security features, such as security inks.
- Excellent print results with intaglio, litho, gravure, flexo, letterpress, ink jet, digital and laser – including fine definition and unique numbering.
- Superior smoothness improves adhesion and brightness for holograms and foils.
- Specific coatings for offset, gravure, intaglio – and combinations.
- Release requirements tailored to the customer’s conversion process – high speeds attainable.
- Machine readable authentication.
- Strong colours, low ink usage. Suitable for solvent or aqueous inks.
- The quality that enables the designer’s work to be appreciated.
- Confidence in consistent performance through the postal authorities’ many automated processes.
- The range and expertise to satisfy all postal authorities.
