Try and get hold of the Afinsa catalog for Portugal, that has by far the best information in a not fully specialized format. It's not to tough to wade through translations although I'll give you the heads up that "pontinhado" translates to "lozenge mesh" and that "normal" paper made in Portugal sometimes shows less defined pontinhado than the true pontinhado paper, which is made elsewhere in Europe. Here's what Google Translate has to say:
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Note : As stated on pg. 7 of this catalogue, in "Technical Notes - Papers", are only cataloged in the dotted paper (in this issue as well as in the rest of CERES) the stamps that present a distribution uniform and clear pattern of the lozenges, ie copies printed on paper of foreign manufacture. The stamps that present an irregular dotting, with an uncertain distribution of the diamonds, were printed in nationally manufactured paper (called national vertical/horizontal plain dotted paper) and are cataloged on plain paper.
For more complete information, consult the article "The Papers of the Ceres Seals of Portugaf' by J. Mi randa da Mota, published in n. 6 of the magazine "Philatelic Convention" of September 2003.
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