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Prado Glossary

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Anti-scan / anti-copy pattern

Anti-Stokes ink

Background printing

Barcode / 2D barcode

Binding technique

Biodata / photo / signature integration

Biographical / other personalization text

Biometric identifier (biometrics)
   ·     e-Passport

Bleeding ink

Bronze process

Co-axial light

Collation mark / floating numeration

Coloured fibres

COUNTERFEIT

Document code

Embossing stamp

Endless text

FALSE DOCUMENT

Fluorescent fibres

Fluorescent hi-lites

Fluorescent ink

Fluorescent overprint

Fluorescent planchettes

Fluorescent security thread

Fluorescent serial number

Fluorescent stitching thread

FORGERY

Fugitive ink

Gravure printing

Guilloches / fine line patterns

Hologram

Hot foil stamping

Identigram®

Infrared light (IR light)

Ink stamp

Inkjet printing

Intaglio printing

Iridescent ink

Iridescent, fluorescent ink

Iridescent, photochromic ink

Iridescent laminate

Kinegram®

Laminate

Laminate overprint

Laminate embossing

Laminate integrated by binding

Laminate UV feature

Laser engraving

Laser perforation
    ·   Laser perforated serial number
    ·   Laser perforated fine structures and designs (rip cuts)
   
·   Secondary (ghost) image - laser perforated
   
·   Laser perforation with tilting effect

Laser print/copy

Latent image

Letterpress printing

Machine  Readable  Zone - MRZ

Machine verifiable feature

Magnetic strip

Metallic pigment

Metameric colours

Microchip – contact

Microchip – contactless

Miniprint, microprint & nanoprint

Needle perforation

Needle printing

Numbering

Oblique light

Offset printing

Optical stripe

OVD (Optically Variable Device)

OVI (Optically Variable Ink)

PC (polycarbonate)

Phosphorescent ink

Photochromic ink

Photograph of the holder  -  fixing methods
   ·   Photo Patch
   ·   Glued
   ·   Eyelets (rivets)
   ·   Stapled

Photographic paper

Photographic process

Planchettes

Pre-printed text

PSEUDO DOCUMENTS
   ·    Fantasy document
   ·    Camouflage document
   ·    Other pseudo documents

PVC (polyvinylchloride)

Rainbow colouring

Relief embossing

Retroreflective laminate

Schablon (stencil) multiple colouring process

Scrambled (encrypted) image

Screen printing

Secondary (ghost) image

Security thread

See-through register

Serial number

Stitching thread

Substrate without optical brightener

Synthetic fibres

Tank tracking - perforation

Thermal dye sublimation

Thermal transfer printing

Thermochromic ink

Tilting effect

Transmitted light

Unique character

UV light (ultraviolet light)

Variable laser image

Watermark
   ·   Single tone watermark
   ·   Duotone watermark
   ·   Multitone watermark

 

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