Here’s a Q-and-A we had on Facebook with a man who wondered where Iowa Lottery scratch tickets are printed, and specifically, why some come from outside the United States.
The man was correct in his posting: Some of the lottery tickets we sell here in Iowa are printed in Canada. Overall, there are just a handful of companies in the entire world that meet the security requirements and have the advanced printing techniques necessary to print lottery tickets.
The Iowa Lottery has contracts to print scratch games with all three of the companies that supply those tickets in the U.S. market. Two of the companies are headquartered in the United States (in Georgia and Rhode Island specifically) and one is based in Winnipeg, Canada. Each of the companies has licensed products and patented processes that only they can provide. And to offer our players the widest variety in our games, we have working relationships with all three companies.
(The Iowa Lottery’s pull-tab games, by the way, are printed right here in Iowa in Council Bluffs by American Games.)
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