STAMP MANUFACTURE

摘要

A method of stamp manufacture is disclosed wherein a web of stamp paper substrate is perforated by means of laser cutting. This enables extremely precise perforations to be provided around the periphery of a plurality of stamp images printed either before or after the perforation step. The substrate may additionally be provided with a pressure sensitive adhesive coating and applied to a release paper either before or after the perforation step which may additionally cut the stamp paper substrate around the periphery of individual stamps which are thus separable from one another, and in either case, fold lines may be produced in the release paper which coincide with an edge of a plurality of stamps so perforated such that a continuous web of a self-adhesive assembly may be produced. The fold lines in the release paper may also be produced by laser cutting so as to weaken the said release paper, or perforate same in a similar pattern to the perforations of the stamps such that resulting web may be fan-folded. Accordingly a fan-folded self-adhesive stamp assembly is also provided.