stamp printers by country

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    = Understood to be a current stamp printer.

KAMPUCHEA  
(Formerly KHMER REPUBLIC)
First postage stamp issued: 1951.
No stamps appear to have been produced locally.



KAZAKHSTAN  
  First postage stamp issued: 1992.

Kazak Bank Note Printing Works, Alma Ata. 
First stamp(s) traced by compiler: 2002 for Kazakhstan.
Main printing process(es): Litho.



KENYA  
 First postage stamp issued: 1963.  
No stamps appear to have been produced locally. However, local handstamping occurred at Mombassa on the stamps of the Imperial Administration in 1895.



KHMER REPUBLIC
Country no longer exists by this name.

(See KAMPUCHEA)



KIRIBATI  
 First postage stamp issued: 1979. 
No stamps appear to have been produced locally.



KOREA  
First postage stamp issued: 1884. 
Country no longer exists by this name.

Ministry of Agriculture, Seoul. 
First stamp(s) traced by compiler: 1899 (Overprints) for Korea [South].


Printing Bureau, Ministry of Agriculture, Commerce and Industry, Seoul. 
First stamp(s) traced by compiler: 1900 for Korea.



KOREA [North]  
 First postage stamp issued: 1946.  

Government Printing Works, Pyongyang. 
First stamp(s) traced by compiler: [when?].



KOREA [South]
 First postage stamp issued: 1946. 

Chung Kyo Sa Printing Office, [Where?]. 
First stamp(s) traced by compiler: 1946 for Korea (South).


Korea Books Printing Company, [Where?]. 
First stamp(s) traced by compiler: 1947 for Korea (South).


Korea Security Printing and Minting Corporation, Pusan, then Seoul, then Taejon. 
Abbreviation known by: KPSMC or, from1999: 
Korea Minting and Security Printing Corporation, Taejon. 
Abbreviation then used: KOMSEP 
Abbreviation now used: KOMSCO. 
First stamp(s) traced by compiler: [when?] for Korea (South).
Main printing process(es): Litho, recess, gravure.

The Korea Security Printing and Minting Corporation was founded on 1^st October 1951 and was initially located at Pusan. Following the cease-fire in the Korean War, the head office moved to Seoul and in 1973 to Taejon.

Investment in new plants, new paper mills and relevant equipment has seen the company grow and expand into new markets. They are responsible for printing bank notes and other security documents as well as postage stamps - and not just for South Korea.


Korean Government Printing and Minting Agency, Choong Cheong Nam Do. 
Founded: 1 October 1951. 
First stamp(s) traced by compiler: 1952 for Korea (South).

This office came under the direct control of the Ministry of Finance, and started printing postage stamps on 7 May 1952.


Koryu Moonhwa Printing Company, [Where?]. 
First stamp(s) traced by compiler: 1949 for Korea (South).


Kyung Hwa Printing Office, [Where?]. 
First stamp(s) traced by compiler: 1946 for Korea (South).


Tongyang Chungpan Printing Company, [Where?]. 
First stamp(s) traced by compiler: 1950 for Korea (South).


KOSOVO
 First postage stamp issued: 2003.
Stamp printing for this country is primarily done by: Adnan Rezniqi, Leoprint and CPU & Moare. 

A user of this site wrote in late 2011: 
"The first stamp of Kosovo and a few later sets that appeared until the CPU & Moare printed issues appeared were printed by the company that currently prints French PO stamps (Phil@Poste).  The rest of the four in the first set were done in Austria - but I forget by what printer, but probably OSD."

 Adnan Rezniqi Co., Pristina. 
First stamp(s) traced by compiler: 2009 for Kosovo. 


 Leoprint, Pristina. 
First stamp(s) traced by compiler: 2005 for Kosovo. 

A user of this site wrote in late 2011: 
"Leoprint is a local Pristina, Kosovo based printer (or it was at least the branch there that had the printing contract).  The UN was trying to revitalize local commerce as a policy back then. The UN did the contracts for the printing - and published them on the UNMIK website (which is still up, even though UNMIK is all but gone (dormant - it exists but isn't functioning)." Leoprint is also in Slovakia and is presumed to be part of the same company



KUWAIT  
 First postage stamp issued: 1958. 
No stamps appear to have been produced locally.



KYRGYZSTAN  
 First postage stamp issued: 1992. 
No stamps appear to hve been produced locally.