SECURITY FEATURES

We provide security features, covert or overt, as part of our card printing solution offering.

Barcodes
Scratch proof black barcodes applied to the surface and sealed with a durable coating.

Check Digits
Using an algorithm applied to a series of numbers to create a unique number sequence for authorization.

Custom-Secure Bundling & Shrink Wrapping
Enables tighter inventory control and controlled flow of plastic cards throughout the entire personalisation process and issuance process.

Contrasting Coloured Core
A coloured core material is laminated between white top and bottom layers. Looking at the card edge, the contrasting coloured core interior visually dominates. Solid white counterfeit cards would easily stand out.

Colour coded magnetic stripes
Using the same high quality encodable media with variable colours such as red, blue or gold stripes to add another level of security.

Destructable Signature Panel
Signature panel is non-permanent making any tampering by physical or chemical means very noticeable.

Metallic or pearlescent Ink
The ink cannot be mimicked by colour copiers or reproduced by scanning and reprinting. These inks change appearance when viewed at different angles, and can be applied to a pre-printed card.

Hologram on the card surface
A special optically reflective pattern applied on the surface of the card that changes images as the card changes angles.

Hologram security overlay
A special optically reflective background pattern applied under the over-laminate on top of the printed copy.

Watermark
Graphics and text are printed underneath the laminate but invisible to the naked eye. They can only be seen when held to a special high intensity light.

Smartcard
An encodable chip is applied to a traditional card body. The chip allows storing of information unique to individual.

RFID
Radio Frequency Identification Antenna buried into a plastic card encoded (non-visible to the human eye) with unique identification and capable of being written to for different levels of security access.

 

Ghosting Imaging
Printing a duplicating photographic image onto a card in a diffused manner, making replication of the image very difficult.

UV invisible inks
Only visible when viewed under a UV light source, both long or short wave lengths. Ink available in a variety of colours.

Rainbow Printing
This printing process combines multiple colours of ink in a single ink fountain of a printing press. Rainbow print is difficult to duplicate on anything other than the exact press that printed the original. Used in paper currency and certificates the rainbow print process has been used for many years for secure printed products.

Guilloche pattern
A highly complex multiple colour design patterns which is generated by a mathematics formula. Impossible to reproduce by copy machine or recreate digitally. It can be integrated with existing artwork to create a totally unique background design.

Micro text or microprint
Very fine printing that is unreadable to the human eye or a copy machine can be easily embedded into the normal graphics design or text, and a deliberate typo can be placed in a text string to identify a counterfeit attempt.

Laser engraved
Burning tamper-proof unique variable data such as personalised details, signature or image onto the face of a card. (Applicable only on polycarbonate body)

Thermal Chromatic ink
The ink can be used to create an image that disappears when heated to body temperature. Some other options are different colours or clear that appears as colour when heated.

Optically Variable Ink
This is based on advanced light interference technology that cannot be replicated with commercially available material. The colour shift is a simple authentication by the man-on-the-street or agent.