Knowledge / Prints / Print Substrates / Kinds

Print Substrate Kind: summary of the different intended styls of print substrates

Paper postage stamp: postage stamp printed and / or embossed on paper

Provisional paper: paper provisional used for the production of postage stamps

Paper colour: colour name a paper is made off (e.g. yellow, green or rosa)

Paper colour shade: colour shade name a paper is made off

Native paper: rough, voluminous paper without surface handling

White paper: during the manufacturing process bleached paper

Imbued paper: during the manufacturing process coloured paper (front and back are always in the same colour)

Coloured paper: paper web with coated or printed surface colour on one or two sides (front and back can have the same colour)

Handmade paper: by hand produced paper

Machinemade paper: by machine auto-matically produced paper

Pulp paper: paper made from chemical open up wood

Recycled paper: paper produced by reusing waste paper

Parchment paper: brittle, hard, trans-parent greyish paper

Rag paper: paper made from old textiles (e. g. cotton)

Wood-pulp paper: low-grade paper which can contain small pices of wood

Wood-free paper: paper without small pices of wood

Laid paper: paper with a fine grill

Cloudy paper: paper with an uneven dispersal of the inherent parts

Granite paper: paper with during the manufacturing process added coloured silk fibres

Thin paper: paper with a low grammage (paper weight)

Pelure paper: very thin, light paper made from bleached cellulose (e.g. for aerograms)

Thick paper: paper with a large grammage (paper weight)

Cardboard: very thick stiff paper with a area-related mass over 150 g/m²

Transparent paper: very thin transparent paper with visible design print from reverse

Plain paper: paper without surface texture

Rough paper: paper with an uneven surface texture

Satin paper: high processed paper with a mechanical smoothed surface

Chalky paper: paper with chalk-like sub-stances on one or two sides of the surface (e. g. casein, kaolin or chalk)

Linen paper: thicker paper with a fine quadrille structure

Toilet tissue: soft, absorbent paper hold together with an embossing

Japanese tissue paper: thick, stiff, tough long fibre paper

Aluminium postage stamp: postage stamp printed on with aluminium foil coated paper

Postage stamp printed on with felt coated aluminium-plastic-combination (ski top)

Felt postage stamp: postage stamp printed on with felt coated paper or plastic foil

Fabric postage stamp: postage stamp printed and / or embroidered on fabric

Embroidered silhouette postage stamp: fabric stamp with freeform embroidered shape

Glass postage stamp: postage stamp made of glass with reverse print

Gold postage stamp: postage stamp printed and / or embossed on with gold foil coated paper

The gold foil on this postage stamp is used as memory for a hologram

Gold coin postage stamp: round postage stamp printed and embossed on gold foil

Gold panel postage stamp: embossed postage stamp on a 1 millimeter thick gold plate

Rubber postage stamp: postage stamp with a relief-like design made of rubber with laser engraving

Wood postage stamp: postage stamp printed on wood

Cork postage stamp: postage stamp printed on cork

Synthetic fibre postage stamp: postage stamp printed on synthetic fibre (Dederon)

Plastic postage stamp: postage stamp printed and / or embosses on plastic foil

Transparent plastic postage stamp: thin trans-parent plastic foil with visible design print from reverse

Corrugated plastic postage stamp: postage stamp printed on corrugated plastic which creates an 3-D effect (lenticular)

Plastic relief postage stamp: plastic postage stamp with a relief embossing up to 3 millimeter thick

Copper bronze postage stamp: postage stamp printed on with copper bronze coated paper

Leather postage stamp: postage stamp with laser engraving on leather

Porcelain postage stamp: postage stamp made of printed porcelain

Silk postage stamp: postage stamp printed on synthetic silk or on with synthetic silk coated paper

Silver postage stamp: postage stamp printed and / or embossed on with silver foil coated paper

The design print on this postage stamp was corroded with acid or leach into the silver foil

The silver foil on this postage stamp is used as memory for a hologram

Silver coin postage stamp: round postage stamp printed and embossed on silver foil

Silver panel postage stamp: printed or embossed postage stamp on a silver plate

Steel postage stamp: postage stamp printed on with steel foil coated paper

Tin postage stamp: postage stamp printed on tin foil

Paper postal stationery: stamped card printed on papier or cardboard

Cork postal stationery: stamped card printed on cork

Silk postal stationery: stamped envelope printed on synthetic silk