[7] The company became the subject of national media attention and controversy in 2006, when it became known that hundreds of blank passports and identity cards had been stolen from its printing facility in Haarlem.

Although discovered by Sdu, the company did not report it to the police until 2004, when falsified identity papers made with the blanks began to turn up.

[10] After World War II a concerted effort was made to improve the design of all products; besides printed material, that included the logo.

Printer and typographer Jean François van Royen had already condemned the state-printed material as ugly in 1912, and after the war P. Knuttel decided "to make everything printed by the government readable and pleasing to the eye".

According to Kentie, Anne Vondeling, then President of the House of Representatives of the Netherlands, was adamant that legislation and reports be done in a layout attractive also to the general reader and the bookstore.