RADUS® Document Security with DOVID / Hologram Applications

Document security is understood as those measures that can actively protect a product or document against piracy and forgery. A differentiation has to be made between an identification feature and a security feature. Identification features are logos and typical designs, for example. They differentiate a product from similar or competing products. These identification features do not, however, offer any security as far as product copies, i.e. direct forgeries, are concerned.

The situation is different with the iridescent DOVID (Diffractive Optically Variable Image Devices) security feature like HOLOGRAM / KINEGRAM - optical effects such as movement or colour changes are produced when viewed from different angles. It takes a forger a great deal of effort to produce a counterfeit.

This results in the following: The more difficult and with an effort it is to copy a security feature, the more suitable it is for product security. This type of product respectively document security in the graphic industry is best undertaken using hologram technology that potential forgers do not possess. Inspired by this challenge, at the start of the 1990s our company developed the first hot stamping hologram applicator for continuous forms to secure vehicle title documents for an European government security printer. The continuous growth in the market for product security and protection against forgery led to the go-ahead for collaboration with a world's leading hologram manufacturer in 1995. By combining the experience of both companies, we developed the HP3 hologram applicator module for security holograms, which is still unrivalled in precision and flexibility, in spite of its numerous imitators.

The sophisticated design of the HP3 hologram applicator can be used in a wide range of applications in the security-printing industry, from hologram applications on sheet-fed and continuous forms made of paper and polycarbonate PC overlay films, to fitted OEM modules for 3rd party machines.

Through the collaboration with the leading hologram manufacturers, our customers around the world have skilled partners on hand for their security holograms and their application systems.