Considering Modern Secure ID Cards
Block out graphics, anti copy papers, ultra violet invisible inks…they sound like something straight out of a James Bond movie, but they are in fact common features of modern secure ID Cards. Why all of the high-tech stuff? Almost anyone with a modern computer, scanner, and high-quality printer is going to be able to make a passable forgery of many types of official documents, including official identity cards. Unless businesses and organizations use technologies and materials not widely available to the public, they will be unable to prevent illegal access or fraudulent behaviors.
Today’s secure ID Cards contain multiple layers of protection against fraud, and quite often it begins with the materials upon which they are printed. There are papers that instantly reveal the fact that they were copied or scanned. This is a very simple technology that is virtually impossible to overcome, but an additional level of protection can be added by using block out graphics. These are images embedded into plastic cards or documents and when either scanned or copied will become totally distorted and unworkable. Such a feature could be applied to company logos or even employee or staff photographs.
Using such security measures means that secure ID Cards relying on these materials will never be able to be easily altered simply by running them through even the world’s best scanning software. In addition to these techniques, many companies are using holographic materials too. These might be graphics only viewable through a special lens, by tilting the card at an angle, or it could be a specialized holographic printing of an employee’s image on their ID card.
Ultra violet inks are yet another highly effective approach to making secure ID Cards simply because the person trying to create a forged card will be unable to see, with their naked eye, that there is another level of security in the document. Unless they know how to embed the appropriate ink into the card, they will be detected at the moment they try to use it fraudulently.
Finally, there are texts and typefaces known as “nano-text” and these are so small as to be completely unreadable by the human eye. In fact, it is often referred to as forensic text because it requires a super-high powered microscope to view it. While this might be an extreme level of security, they can guarantee major businesses, corporations, and organizations an almost guaranteed level of impervious security.
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