exnihilo wrote:Glasgow's degrees are foolscap (13.5" x 17"), on a fairly heavy paper stock (I'd guess about 120gsm), and they are very much printed - signatures and all. They have an embossed seal, which is part of the paper as it is bought in, around/beside which the text is printed on - exactly as St Andrews does.
Maybe it's changed since I got my certificate from Glasgow (2001), but on mine the university seal is raised from the surface of the paper, whereas the St Andrews seal was like a hologram more or less at on the surface.
Yes, all the text on the Glasgow certificate is printed, including the signatures, but (a) it's in Latin (b) in red and black, and (c) looks like a professional typesetting job (as opposed to the St Andrews certificate, which looks like a 2-minute effort on Microsoft Word).