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= Understood to be a current stamp printer.
= company still believed to exist.
First
postage stamp issued: 1855
Stamp printing for this country
is primarily done by: Southern Colour Print
(NZ), SNP Ausprint (Australia), Sweden Post
Stamps (Sweden), Pemera Labels (Australia).
John Davies at the GPO, Auckland.
First stamp(s) traced by compiler:
1862 for New Zealand.
Stamps
were increasing in demand so much by 1861,
that the authorities made stamp printing
a permanent requirement. John Davies was
recommended by Perkins Bacon for the job
of stamp printer, a position that he held
until 1864.
Government Printing Office,
Wellington.
First stamp(s) traced
by compiler: 1873 for New Zealand.
Lenticular
Outer Aspect Limited, [where?].
First stamp(s) traced by compiler: 2008
for Austria.
Main printing process(es):
Lenticular (3D type), self-adhesive
Premier Business Print,
East
Tamaki.
First stamp(s) traced by compiler: 1998
(Self-adhesives) for the Republic of Vanuatu.
Since 1983, Premier Business
Print has been a leading supplier of solution
based printed products to New Zealand industry.
John Richardson, Auckland.
First stamp(s) traced by compiler: 1855
for New Zealand.
John
Richardson was owner of the Auckland
Examiner newspaper and had, not surprisingly,
a printing press. His contract ceased in
1862.
Southern
Colour Print Limited, Dunedin.
Abbreviation known by: SCP.
Founded:
“over 50 years ago” [when?].
First stamp(s) traced by compiler: 1991
for New Zealand.
Main printing process(es):
Litho, self-adhesive
One of the country’s oldest
printing companies, Southern Colour Print
is New Zealand’s premier security printer,
having over fifty years experience in the
production of lottery tickets and, more
recently, postage stamps and examination
papers.
Once part of Bowater (New
Zealand) Limited, they were then a division
of Rexam New Zealand Limited, part of a
multinational paper and pulp company headquartered
in Great Britain. However, Rexam state that
they had "strayed into manufacturing
diesel engines and a stamp printing operation
in New Zealand".
By 1996,
just half the group's operations were in
packaging, split equally between industrial
and consumer products." When Rolf Boriesson
became the new CEO, he immediately focused
25 per cent of the company's core business
on consumer packaging. Seventy five per
cent of the old Bowater businesses was sold
off and replaced with acquisitions. It is
unclear who SCP are currently a part of.
Until the early 1990s, stamps were
generally not produced in New Zealand, but
overseas. This was due to a lack of high-quality
printing companies and the inability to
perforate them in the quantities required.
Around this time, diversification was something
that SCP wanted and stamps fulfilled their
requirements. Therefore, equipment was especially
purchased in an attempt at securing a contract
from N Z Post, which proved successful,
indeed in 1997 a TradeNZ commendation was
awarded for its export sales.
Star
Office, Auckland.
First stamp(s)
traced by compiler: 1894 (Overprints) for
Tonga.
Wilson and Horton, Auckland.
First stamp(s) traced by compiler: 1891
(Overprints) for Tonga.
Wilson and Horton are New
Zealand's premier news & information
company. They operate in four key areas:
newspaper publishing (nine daily newspapers
and 32 free community papers); new internet-based
media; specialist publishing (including
two leading weekly magazines); and commercial
printing under the umbrella of its subsidiary,
W&H Print Ltd.
Wyatt
and Wilson Print Limited, Christchurch.
First stamp(s) traced by compiler:
1985 for Tokelau.
Main printing process(es):
Litho, die-cut.
Wilson and Wyatt sought permission
to print stamps for the New Zealand Post
Office in the early 1980s. It was necessary
to prove their capabilities and so sheets
of fifty dummy labels depicting a scene
in Cathedral Square, Christchurch, were
produced.
The
trials were successful on the printing front
and subsequently they proved that perforating
was feasible following investment in a comb
perforator from France. Ten weeks later
an invitation to tender was received for
a Tokelau issue, which W&W secured.
Wyatt & Wilson Print then vanished from
our albums and specialised in direct mail
products such as envelopes for major national
appeals, and photo wallets.
They have again entered the stamp printing
sector and from 2003 are producing stamps
for overseas administrations such as Vanuatu
and Tonga.
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01 September 2008. All material Copyright ©
2000-Date Glenn H Morgan FRPSL. |
