Abstract: The invention relates to a method for the manufacture of sheetlike or weblike material which is the carrier of markings apparent in transmitted light. The markings being produced in that sheets or webs of paper with marking of the desired type printed onto them are laminated to one another with the print-carrying surfaces facing towards one another and that the lamination is carried out with a thin plastic layer.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for manufacturing paper sheets having an appearance of being hand-made, the method comprising the steps of forming watermarks on a continuous web along longitudinal and transverse zones spaced according to the width and length of the paper sheets, drying the continuous web, crushing longitudinal and transverse regions of the dried continuous web within the watermarked longitudinal and transverse zones, respectively, tearing and separating the dried continuous web along the longitudinal and transverse crushed regions, respectively.