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Security printing is the field of the printing industry that deals with the printing of items such as banknotes, cheques, passports, tamper-evident labels, security tapes, product authentication, stock certificates, postage stamps, and identity cards. The main goal of security printing is to prevent forgery, tampering, or counterfeiting.
Yellow dots on white paper, produced by color laser printer (enlarged, dot diameter about 0.1 mm) Printer tracking dots, also known as printer steganography, DocuColor tracking dots, yellow dots, secret dots, or a machine identification code (MIC), is a digital watermark which many color laser printers and photocopiers produce on every printed page that identifies the specific device that was ...
In security printing, void pantograph refers to a method of making copy-evident and tamper-resistant patterns in the background of a document. Normally these are invisible to the eye, but become obvious when the document is photocopied. Typically they spell out "void", "copy", "invalid" or some other indicator message. [1]
Barack Obama's birth certificate on security paper.. Security paper is a paper used in security printing that incorporates features that can be used to identify or authenticate a document as original, e.g., watermarks or invisible fibres in paper, or features that demonstrate tamper evidence when fraud is attempted, e.g., to remove or alter print such as amounts or signatures on a cheque.
Manual card imprinter Another type of manual card imprinter (Janome M220) with a smaller sliding handle. A credit card imprinter, colloquially known as a ZipZap machine, click-clack machine or Knuckle Buster, is a manual device that was used by merchants to record credit card transactions before the advent of payment terminals.
1917 office with a "Multigraph" duplicating machine at lower right. Printing/Applied ink methods Letterpress printing (via printing press) Gelatin methods (also indirect method) Hectograph; Collography, autocopyist; Chromograph, Copygraph, Polygraph; Flexography; Spirit duplicator (also Rexograph, Ditto machine, Banda machine, or Roneo ...
Paper formats (what kind of paper sizes and stocks the MFP can output) Printer technology (e.g. InkJet/Laser/Color Laser) Printing speed (typically given in pages per minute or ppm) Resolution DPI - this is an important metric for both printing and scanning quality. (Note that print DPI is rarely greater than 600dpi actual.
Ozalid machine in use with the City of Seattle, City Light office, circa 1954. Ozalid is a registered trademark [1] of a type of paper used for "test prints" in the monochrome classic offset process. The word "Ozalid" is an anagram of "diazol", the name of the substance that the company "Ozalid" used in the fabrication of this type of paper.