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Passports issued by consular offices are "printed" at the consular office from blank stock. The blank stock is manufactured in the US.
It is not a case of the consular office taking/reviewing/approving the application and then the book/card is mailed or flown overnight from CONUS. Consular issued passports are handed to the applicant usually the same day, sometimes in hours, sometimes the next day.
When a consular office gets low on supplies new blank stock is shipped to the office from the states.
In this case I’m talking about a regular 10-year passport for citizens who live abroad, not the emergency passports that consulates print on site. In any case, when I submitted today the consulate said it would be printed in the US and it would not be Next Gen, so question answered.