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Printing Once the document is received from origination, it can be printed as: Offset printing – full colour, high quality printing in sheet format, such as posters, annual reports, passport visa pages and more; Continuous printing – full colour jobs/ single colour jobs printed in high volumes, including newsletters, census forms, voter registration forms and more; or Digital printing – either full colour or black & white. Digital printing is used for production of variable data (no two documents are the same), such as voters’ rolls, personalisation of documents such as certi ½ cates and more. Finishing After receiving printed matter from the print rooms, ½ nishing operations are executed to deliver the printed matter in its ½ nal format as: sheeted; fan folded packs; sprocketed continuous stationery (also multipart); multipart snapsets; folded forms; perfect bound books; multipart; reel-to-reel format; books (side stitched and saddle stitched); full-bound books (including genuine leather); and foil blocking. All of the above relate to both security printing jobs and non-security printing jobs.

All of the above relate to both security and non-security printing jobs.

Gazette services The GPW is the custodian of a host of government publications: tender bulletins, regulation gazettes, provincial gazettes (excluding the Free State and Western Cape), national gazettes and legal notices. Some are published weekly, others monthly. As publisher and editor of these of ½ cial communication tools to the general public, the GPW is accountable for their content.

The Government Gazette business unit compiles, edits and typesets the publications before printing and disseminating them in hard copy and publishing them electronically.

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