Evolis Custom Hologram ID Card Ribbon Guide

• A hologram is impossible to duplicate with a scanner or a color copier
• It is not possible to imitate standard printing technologies
• The initial levels of visual security can be used to integrate additional levels of control for a card
• The optical images of the ribbons are shiny, very high definition, 3D animated, and with very high resistance against counterfeiting
• Ribbons are used to seal the information contained on the plastic cards. The information is therefore authenticated and protected from falsification or substitution

A combination of:

• • A holographic image
  • A carrier to support the image and manufacturing process (hot stamping foil, laminate, self-adhesive label…)
  • A device produced in a secure environment and under strict security procedures.

Targeted Markets:

– Protection of fiduciary documents: Banknotes, checks, credit cards, tickets…

– Protection of identity documents: Passports, identity cards, visas, driver’s licenses, event ID badges

– Authentication of brand products: Luxury goods, industrial spare parts, sportswear…

Customers:

– Government organizations: Central banks, Ministries of Interior, Ministries of Finance, Ministries of Foreign Affairs, Ministries of Transport, National Elections Authorities…

– Integrators: Security printers, credit cards, manufacturers, packaging companies

– Industry Suppliers: Consultants, machine manufacturers

– Brand Owners: Automobiles, Perfumes, Jewellery, Watches, Industrial Parts, sportswear…

When the secured ID card will be viewed by the public. This hologram has features that are visible to the average person who has no training or instruction. The images, lines, or text are immediately obvious to the viewer.

Supports OVERT features

When the secured ID card will be subject to inspection. This hologram includes features that are not immediately discernible to the average person. These elements are only discernible when an examiner utilizes an additional tool and possesses some level of training. The tools used to expose the feature are simple items such as a magnifying glass, flashlight, or laser pen.

Supports OVERT and COVERT features

When the secured card is subject to forensic examination. This hologram includes features that are visible only with complex laboratory equipment. Persons investigating these features require more extensive training.

Supports OVERT, COVERT, and FORENSIC features

When the risk of counterfeiting is extreme. This hologram includes features that are technically unique and often have only one source of production. These sources produce a variety of unique optical technologies that do not rely solely on the holographic process.

Supports OVERT, COVERT, FORENSIC, and UNIQUE features

(Covert Laser Retrievable) ‒ Images or characters that are indecipherable to the human eye. They are decoded by illuminating the coded area with a laser device and looking for the refracted light projected back at a specific angle. (Level 2 ‒ Covert)

Propriety banknote software is used to create unique effects which cannot be created with standard laser origination methods. The same software was used for item 3 Line Width Modulation. (Level 2 ‒ Overt/Covert)

(LWM) ‒ Various image and text effects can be created by the mathematical manipulation of the width, length, and height of lines. (Level 3 ‒ Overt/ Forensic / Level 4 – Unique)

A series of high-resolution lines, curves, and rosettes or any combination of these elements. These designs are generated by using very sophisticated software. Each element can be assigned a predetermined color shift to create an illusion of synchronized animation.

(Level 1 – Overt)

True color images or photographs that are reduced in size to as little as three square millimeters. (Level 3 – Forensic)

Optical illusion of relief created by a highly diffractive surface-oriented grating that can be applied to images, text, or lines in a hologram. (Level 1 – Overt)

Images, lines, or characters that refract light using the full-color spectrum. The color changes as the viewing angle changes. (Level 1 – Overt)

Images, lines, or characters are composed of elements on the surface plane, above the surface plane, or in the background. Elements above the surface plane or in the background exhibit a sense of depth and parallax.

(Level 1 – Overt)

Geometric shapes morph color as they are rotated. (Level 1 – Overt)

Diffractive or non Diffractive text that ranges in size from 175 to 40 microns. The text can be seen only through a microscope. (Level 3 – Forensic).

Two or more distinct images that occupy the same area of the hologram. These images shift from one to the other when viewed from different angles. (Level 1 – Overt)

Images, lines, or characters that have no color refraction, but are composed of black, white, or neutral variations of gray. (Level 1 – Overt)

Images or characters that are indecipherable to the human eye. They are decoded by illuminating the coded area with a laser device and looking at the refracted light projected back at a specific angle. Dual Axis CLRs have more than one set of images or characters that are viewed at ninety-degree angles from each other.

(Level 2 ‒ Covert)

Images that refract their true colors only when viewed at a very specific angle. (Level 1 – Overt)

This is diffractive or nondiffractive text, whose size can be as small as 175 microns. And can be viewed only with an eye loop or a magnifying glass.

(Level 2 – Covert)

An optical illusion of depth and movement created from one or more flat, two- dimensional images. (Level 1 – Overt)

Lines made from random fonts or words that look like ordinary lines until magnified to reveal the true object. (Level 2 – Covert)

Outline of words and objects that can be combined with other effects to make a more complex image. (Level 1 ‒ Overt)

A translucent relief of an image or text that causes some part of the image or text to appear convex. (Level 2 – Covert)

Images, lines, or characters that are designed to refract the light at a very severe angle. The hologram has to be rotated ninety degrees to see the feature.

(Level 2 – Covert)

The intentional manipulation of the optical structures that compose the hologram in a predefined, undisclosed area to create a unique fingerprint. (Level 3 ‒ Forensic)

In some instances, two or more effects can be combined on the same area or feature of a hologram to create a unique hard to duplicate heterogeneous effect. For example, LWM and Micro Text can be combined to create a very unique feature. (Level 1 to Level 3)

A unique covert feature whereby a pair of images are projected and appear to float above the surface of the hologram when illuminated with a standard flashlight. Available in 2012. (Level 3 ‒ Forensic/Level 4- Unique)