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Security Paper

Security printing paper is critical to the production of high quality security documents.
Security Foiling Limited can offer a ‘total service’ of document design and production including the provision of security paper.
Security paper is available with standard or customised features and is often carefully selected to be suitable for subsequent security printing processes.
The selection and choice of features is directly connected to the type of security threat that each potential customer faces and therefore, we offer a confidential service to discuss which security paper features will offer the appropriate level of protection and there suitability for subsequent printing processes.
Security Printing Techniques
Some typical paper security features:

• Genuine watermarks – very difficult to duplicate or copy the document
• Invisible and visible fibres – used as a deterrent to copying
• Embedded Planchettes – providing a method of authentication
• Chemical sensitivity for bleaches and solvents – to assist in the detection of unauthorised changes to the document
• Embedded Security threads - very difficult to duplicate or copy the document
• Hidden ‘VOID’ or ‘COPY’ feature – anti-scan and copy feature displays ‘VOID’ when scanned or copied

Some typical documents and appropriate paper security features:

• University Certificates – protection against copying and data alteration – Genuine watermarks, chemical sensitivity, invisible and visible fibres, Embedded Planchettes and security threads, COPY feature
• Cheques – protection against data alteration – watermarks , chemical sensitivity, VOID feature
• Tickets – protection against copying – visible fibres and chemical sensitivity, VOID feature
• Vouchers – protection against copying and alteration - watermarks and chemical sensitivity, VOID feature
• Licences – protection against copying and alteration - Genuine watermarks, chemical sensitivity, invisible and visible fibres, COPY feature, Embedded Planchettes and security threads
• Birth, Marriage and Death Certificates - protection against copying and alteration - Genuine watermarks, chemical sensitivity, invisible and visible fibres, COPY feature, Embedded Planchettes and security threads

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