Security printing methods from a digital printing perspective

Abstract EN

The paper discussed the secured prints by digital printing method, the paper has reviewed some new programs features provided in the field.

paper problem stated to study the lack of using the new anti-counterfeiting design features in addition to future using of digital printing method as a new method in preventing prints or goods anti-counterfeiting.

paper methodology followed the analytical experimental approach and theoretical one’ to solve paper problem.

the objectives were to find the influence of those new innovations in doing the experimental, continue with the tests and its analysis to identify a fair and clear solution to the paper problem.

in order to do that, the paper has to study the first part of paper research which focuses on one of security new programs, courtesy of agfa ...

etc, and types of inks which is considered one of the most important elements in securing materials especially the UV inks, IR inks and taggant inks.

The designs include covert elements used the invisible UV inks.

semi-covert design elements include microtext, authenticate secure barcode, line in line special screen and other elements used visible Electroinks.

The overt elements include Guilloche, latent image, random pattern and other elements solution have also been used visible Electro-inks.

Whereas, The second part focused on the analytical of the digital printing experimental which has been printed for the packages field, discussing the printed secured prints designs with a wide range of several substrates, the tests analysis were all about ink resistant to several agents, tests analysis has been implemented according to ISO Standards, the evaluation of the tests and the paper results showed that the prepared secured documents printed with UV inks on the selected digital printing corporation innovation machine (courtesy of Hewlett-Packard) have a very good performance in durability even with the hard tests which carried out on the printed samples.

Recommendation included that the security digital printing and the new digital program features, both of them have an excellent opportunity in securing a very large sectors of low valued documents in addition to some of the valued documents except the forensic features which are not available by the digital printing yet.