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PAKISTAN 
First postage stamp issued: 1947
Stamp printing for this country
is primarily done by: Post Office Foundation
Press, Karachi].
Pakistan
Security Printing Corporation (Pvt) Limited,
Karachi.
Abbreviation known by: PSPC.
Founded:
1949.
First stamp(s) traced by compiler:
1949 for Pakistan.
Main printing process(es):
Litho Established with 40% capital
share from De La Rue of Great Britain, PSPC
became a fully owned part of the Government
of Pakistan in April 1971.
PSPC is primarily responsible
for the production of currency notes for
the Pakistani government and is the only
organisation in the country dealing with
security printing.
Other products, besides annual
output of one billion stamps, include passports,
national identity cards, cheques and revenue
documents.
Post
Office Foundation Press, Karachi.
First
stamp(s) traced by compiler: 2003 for Pakistan.
Main
printing process(es): Litho
Times Press, Karachi.
First
stamp(s) traced by compiler: 1961 (Surcharges)
for Pakistan.
PALAU ISLANDS
First postage stamp issued:
1983
Stamp printing for this country
is primarily done by: Unicover (USA) and BDT
(Ireland).
PALESTINE
First postage stamp issued: 1918
Stamp printing for this country
is primarily done by: [unknown printer]
Greek Orthodox Convent,
Jerusalem.
First stamp(s) traced by compiler: 1920
(Overprints), 1923 (Postage Dues) for Palestine.
PANAMA
First postage stamp issued:
1904
Stamp printing for this country
is primarily done by: [unknown printer]
Carvajal S.A. Panamá,
[where?]
First stamp(s) traced by compiler: [when?].
Dutigrafia S.A., [where?].
First stamp(s) traced by compiler:
1981 for Panama.
Editora Panamá
América S.A., [where?].
First
stamp(s) traced by compiler: 1958 for Panama.
Primarily a newspaper.
La Estrella de Panamá, [where?].
First stamp(s) traced by compiler:
1954 for Panama.
Primarily a newspaper.
Thomas
Greg & Sons Ltd.
(a combination
of the plants in Colombia, Peru, Venezuela
and other plants in Brazil, Mexico
and the USA also taking into account
their Security Transport in Dominican Republic,
Nicaragua, Costa Rica and their Courier
in Colombia where they are representatives
of UPS and also the Collection services
companies.)
PAPUA NEW GUINEA
First postage stamp issued:
1901
Stamp printing for this country
is primarily done by: Southern Colour (New
Zealand), Beijing Security Printers (PRC)
and BDT (Ireland)).
No stamps appear to have
been produced locally. However, overprinting
occurred at Port Moresby in 1906, but the
printer(s) name(s) is unknown. This is in
addition to the entry recorded below.
Government Printer,
Port
Moresby.
First stamp(s) traced by compiler:
1929 (Air Overprints) for Papua.
PARAGUAY
First postage stamp issued:
1870
Stamp printing for this country
is primarily done by: [unknown printer]
El Arte, Ascunción.
First stamp(s) traced by compiler:
1960 for Paraguay.
La Colmena, Ascunción.
First stamp(s) traced by compiler:
1933 for Paraguay.
Departamento de Valores
Fiscales, Dependiente del Ministerio de
Hacienda
Also known
as
Talleros de Valores Fiscales,
Asunción.
English language translation of name: Both
names relate to the Government Printing
Works.
First stamp(s) traced by compiler:
1922 under former name and 1959 under latter
name.
H. Kraus, Ascunción.
First stamp(s) traced by compiler:
1901 for Paraguay.
PERSIA
(See IRAN)
PERU
 First
postage stamp issued: 1858
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PHILIPPINES
First postage stamp issued: 1854
Stamp printing for this country
is primarily done by: Amstar (Philippines).
Amstar
Company Incorporated, Quezon City, Manila.
First stamp(s) traced by compiler: 1989
for Philippines.
APO Production Unit Incorporated,
Neda,
Manila.
Abbreviation known by: APO.
Founded:
1974.
First stamp(s) traced by compiler:
1982 for Philippines.
APO is a fully integrated
printing facility with both sheet-fed and
web offset printing presses that can handle
jobs ranging from single colour to four
colours.
A non-stock corporation organised
in 1974 by virtue of its membership in the
Asian Productivity Organisation based in
Tokyo, Japan, APO originally served as the
printing arm of its parent organisation.
Printing of Bibles, books, journals,
reports, brochures, posters, continuous
forms, receipts, newsletters and stamps
all full within APOs capabilities.
Coast and Geodetic Survey
Office, [where?].
First
stamp(s) traced by compiler: 1942 for Philippines.
Government Printing Office, Manila.
First stamp(s) traced by compiler: 1978
for Philippines.
Litografia del Gómez,
Santa
Cruz.
First stamp(s) traced by compiler:
1898 for Philippines.
Philippine Bureau of Printing, [where?].
First stamp(s) traced by compiler: 1926
(Stamps and Overprints) for Philippines.
PITCAIRN
ISLAND
First postage stamp issued:
1940
Stamp printing for this country
is primarily done by: Southern Colour (New
Zealand), BDT (Ireland), Enschede (Netherlands)
and Secura (Singapore).
POLAND
First postage stamp issued:
1860
Stamp printing for this country
is primarily done by: PWPW (Poland).
Ars Polona S.A., Warsaw.
Founded: 1953.
First stamp(s) traced
by compiler: [when?].
Foreign Trade Enterprise
ARS POLONA started its activities in 1953
and was the first in Poland, and one of
the first firms in the Central and Eastern
Europe, dealing with export and import of
books and other press related items.
A publicity brochure records
“printing stamps for foreign posts” as one
of many activities. These include
silver jewellery, coins, medals, stamps
and books.
Drukarnia Narodowa w Krakowie,
Krakow.
Drukarnia Skarbowa w Warszawie,
Warsaw.
English language translation of name: Treasury
Printing House.
Government Printing Office,
Warsaw.
First stamp(s) traced by compiler: 1860
for Poland.
Panstwowa
Wytwórnia Papierów Wartósciowych
SA, Warsaw.
English language
translation of name: Polish Security Printing
Works.
Abbreviation known by: PWPW.
Founded: 1919.
First stamp(s) traced
by compiler: 1933 for Poland.
Main
printing process(es): Litho, photogravure,
recess, silk screen
Polska
(ex Panstwowa) Wytwórnia Papierów
Wartósciowych is the main state security-printing
house in Poland operating under the supervision
of the Ministry of the Treasury. Apart from stamps, PWPW prints
excise bands, banknotes, IDs, documents
for foreigners, including visas and permanent
residence cards, cheque books for Wielkopolski
Bank Kredytowy and Pekao SA Bank as well
as bingo cards. At the turn of the
Millennium, the printing house was also
preparing to launch the production of new
identity cards, driver's licences, car registration
cards and licence plates.
In 1948 and in 1955 they
purchased new rotary printing presses, the
latter from WIFAG of Switzerland, the former
probably from Goebels of Germany.
J. Pietrzykowski, Lublin.
First stamp(s) traced by compiler: 1944
for Poland.
Postal Printing Institute,
Lódz.
First stamp(s) traced by compiler: 1945
for Poland.
State Graphic Institution,
[where?].
First stamp(s) traced by compiler: 1924
for Poland.
PORTUGAL
First postage stamp issued:
1853
Stamp printing for this country
is primarily done by: Enschede (Netherlands),
Lito Maia (Portugal) and INCM (Portugal).
Bank of Portugal,
[where?].
First stamp(s) traced by compiler:
1940 for Portugal.
Companhia Nacional Editora, Lisbon.
First stamp(s) traced by compiler:
1895 for Portugal.
INCM
(The Mint), Lisbon.
First
stamp(s) traced by compiler: [when] for
Portugal.
Main printing process(es):
Litho
Litografia de Portugal
S.A., [where?].
First
stamp(s) traced by compiler: 1972 for Portugal.
Founded: March 1893.
The
focus of production is mainly folding
board and paper wet glue label products.
They
are structured to cater for the food, hygiene
and the shoe box industry and are especially
dedicated to all types of cartons and labels
with automatic and/or industrial applications.
Litografia Lusitana, [where?].
First stamp(s) traced by compiler:
1925 for Portugal.
Litografia
Maia, Lisbon and Oporto.
First
stamp(s) traced by compiler: 1971 for Portugal.
Main printing process(es):
Litho
Litografia Nacional Ltda
[now SA], Oporto.
First stamp(s)
traced by compiler: 1952 for Portugal.
Main printing process(es):
Litho
Lovelar, [Where?].
First stamp(s) traced by compiler: 2004
for Portugal.
PUERTO
RICO
First postage stamp issued:
1873
Stamp printing for this country
is primarily done by: [unknown printer]
Boletin Mercantil de
Puerto Rico, San
Juan.
First stamp(s) traced by compiler:
1893 for Puerto Rico.
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