ISBN: 0-88362-375-7

Are your documents secure? Today's concern over terrorism highlights the importance of security printing as a means of protecting documents from counterfeiting, forgery, tampering, and other fraudulent use. In nine chapters, Introduction to Security Printing explains the technologies, techniques, and risk management issues used to protect secure documents, labels, and packages.

Table of Contents

• Foreword
• Preface
• Overview
• Security Printing Devices
• Security End Products
• Security Printing Paper
• Security Printing Ink
• Prepress for Security Printing
• Press/Postpress Operations to Mitigate Counterfeiting
• Marketing Security Printing
• Protocols, Standards, and Risk Management
• Appendix: Reference Sources
• Index

About the Authors

Richard D. Warner, the president of R.D. Warner Consulting, Inc., specialises in security printing consulting. Former vice president of operations for NASPO, he worked for PIA/GATF from 1977-2002 in a variety of research positions, including vice president and director of research. Dr. Richard M. Adams II is a colour management specialist for the Graphic Intelligence Agency (GIA), a division of GretagMacbeth. Prior to joining GIA, he was a research scientist for digital imaging and colour reproduction at PIA/GATF and wrote several books for PIA/GATFPress.

Editorial Reviews: Book News, Inc.: Warner, a security printing consultant. and Adams, a colour management specialist in a graphics firm, explain the technologies, techniques, and risk management issues associated with protecting secure documents, labels, and packages. Coverage progresses from security printing devices through paper and ink, prepress and postpress operations, marketing security printing, and protocols and standards.Colour illustrations of documents are included. -- Copyright © 2005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR. All rights reserved

Editorial Reviews: Books-On-Line.com: Certain printed documents -- cash, stamps, passports and the like -- have value far beyond the paper they are printed on. This makes them targets for counterfeiting. So a special series of processes has been developed to produce such documents.

The things that can be controlled in the printing process are essentially the paper, the ink, and the printing equipment/process. This book discusses all of these and more as it talks about the technology of making documents secure enough that forgeries can be immediately recognized by people with little training.

In recent years the advent of colour copying has forced a whole series of changes in the security printing business. This means that new technologies such as inks visible under special lighting conditions, micro printing, holograms and many other techniques have become available and are covered here. Finally there is a section on marketing security printing along with some discussion on the risks involved. -- Copyright © 2005 Books-On-Line, Winnemucca, NV. All rights reserved.

Edition: 1st Edition
Publisher: GATF
Published: 2005