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= Understood to be a current stamp printer. = company still believed to exist.

First postage stamp issued: 1941
Stamp printing for this country is primarily done by: AKD (Croatia), Orbis (Croatia), Zrinski (Croatia), Mechelin (Belgium).

Agencija za Komercijalnu Djelatnost, Zagreb.
Abbreviation known by: AKD.
First stamp(s) traced by compiler: 2000 for Croatia.

Agencija za Komercijalnu Djelatnost runs -among other- the State printworks for security printing

Agencija za Komercijalnu Djelatnost - Hrvatski Tiskarski Zavod, Zagreb.
Abbreviation known by: AKD-HTZ.
First stamp(s) traced by compiler: 1996 for Croatia.

AKD-HTZ runs -among other- the State printworks for security printing. The "HTZ" part of "AKD-HTZ" has been dropped since 2000, the significance of which is unknown. (See entry above.)

Graphoart Jakus, [Where?].
First stamp(s) traced by compiler: 1995 for Croatia.

HDT, Zagreb.
Abbreviation known by: HDT.
First stamp(s) traced by compiler: 1941 (Overprints) for Croatia.

HTZ, Zagreb.
Abbreviation known by: HTZ.
First stamp(s) traced by compiler: 1941 (Overprints), 1993 (stamps) for Croatia.

Kraljek Vezic, Cakovec.
First stamp(s) traced by compiler: 1941 (Overprints) for Croatia.

Ognjen Prica, Zagreb.
First stamp(s) traced by compiler: 1948 for Yugoslavia.

Orbis d.d., Zagreb.
First stamp(s) traced by compiler: 1994 for Croatia.

Pucka Tiskara, Sibenik.
First stamp(s) traced by compiler: 1944 (Overprints) for Croatia.

Rozankousky, Zagreb.
First stamp(s) traced by compiler: 1947 for Yugoslavia.

Staadtsdruckerei, Bec.
First stamp(s) traced by compiler: 1942 for Croatia.

State Printing Works, Sarajevo and Zagreb.
First stamp(s) traced by compiler: 1866 for Serbia.

Tipografija, Zagreb.
First stamp(s) traced by compiler: 1941 (Overprints) for Croatia, 1945 (Stamps) for Yugoslavia.

Zrinski Tiskarsko Izdavacki Zavod d.d, Cakovec.
Founded: 1946.
First stamp(s) traced by compiler: 1991 for Croatia.
Main printing process(es): Litho, blind embossing

During the Second World War, there were two printing houses in Cakovec, both of which merged in 1946 to eventually form Zrinski.
This printer was responsible not only for the production of the first stamps of independent Croatia in September 1991, but they also produced the first bank notes, so important to an emerging nation. Zrinski also produce books, monographs and other graphic products for an ever-growing market.