Optical Document Security
Published on 12. December 1994
Book
Hardback
415 pages
978-0-89006-619-5 (ISBN)
Description
This work presents a review of optical security in the fields of paper and printing technology, embossed microgratings, layered microstructures, other optically variable security devices and laminates. The text provides an evaluation of the various security techniques and future developments and features an appendix with actual samples of various optical security options such as holograms, kinegrams, pixelgrams, pearl lustre inks, thin film devices and security papers with optically variable enclosures.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Norwood
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
110ill.
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-89006-619-5 (9780890066195)
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Rudolf L.Van Renesse
Optical Document Security
Book
11/1997
2nd Edition
Artech House Publishers
€102.75
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Content
Forensic aspects of document counterfeit; the evaluation of document fraud resistance; introduction to optical document security; the historical development of security printing; security printing techniques; modulation of printed gratings as a protection against copying; document protection by holograms; document protection by optically variable graphics (Kinegram); zero-order grating microstructures; iridescent optically variable devices - a survey; optical thin-film security devices; liquid crystal security devices; noniridescent, optically variable devices; optical security laminates; identification security systems based on silver diffusion transfer imaging.