Security Options
Security Options
A secure ID card is more than a name and a photo. It requires visual security elements to protect against tampering and forgery. Did you know that holograms have been required by MasterCard® and Visa® for years?
Identity on Demand card services offers several surface and sub-surface features that can be added to a card design for a truly secure and custom product. Our expert team can help define what security elements are right for your organization.
Below is a list of security elements to consider when designing photo ID cards::
| • Surface Holograms (Applied on top of the card surface) |
 Adding a hologram to an ID badge is one of the most commonly recognizable anti-counterfeiting measures available on the market. This device is almost impossible to reproduce without the counterfeiter making a significant investment into the specialized equipment needed to reproduce this technology. |
| • Embedded Holograms (Applied within the card material) |
 Embedded holograms are positioned under the rigid clear top surface of the card. Unlike surface holograms, embedded holograms are amenable to dye sublimation - allowing the entire card surface to be personalized. This application style furthers the effectiveness of the anti-counterfeiting feature by requiring expensive and specialized manufacturing equipment. |
| • Invisible Ultra-Violet (UV) Fluorescing Images (surface or sub-surface) |
 Common on credit cards, currency and travel documents, invisible ink images provide a covert anti-counterfeiting mechanism. Though blue/violet fluorescing ink is inexpensive and readily available, red, green, yellow and orange fluorescing pigments remain difficult to acquire. This covert anti-counterfeiting device remains popular because of its relatively easy implementation in the field. |
| • Optically Variable Inks (OVI) (sub-surface) |
 Color-shifting inks reflect various wavelengths in white light differently, depending on the angle of incidence to the surface. An unaided eye will observe this effect as a change of color while the viewing angle is changed. This anti-counterfeiting method is commonly used on currency and travel documents. |
| • Guilloche Printing (sub-surface) |
 Fine line interlocking spot color patterns are used to make complex background graphics that are extremely difficult to scan and reproduce. These design elements are often multicolor and are commonly used on currency and travel documents. |
| • Micro-fine Printing (sub-surface) |
 Originally developed by credit card organizations, micro-fine text (which can only be read under magnification) can be hidden within a graphical design. An increasingly popular application for this technology occurs when micro-fine text is printed around the photo window to highlight any photo tampering or replacement of photo on genuine cards that have been stolen. |
| • Laminated High Resolution Lithographic Printing (sub-surface) |
 Identity on Demand services can provide embedded high resolution lithographic printing to ensure consistent color matching results. This technology also minimizes the issuance time when card personalization is continued at an end-user location on an ongoing basis. Pantone spot colors and true metallic colors can be printed with this technique. |
| • Secure Overlaminates (surface) |
 Secure Overlaminates add vital protection to your ID cards -- and to your organization. It's all too easy, using today's digital technology, to forge legitimate-looking IDs. But an HID Global Secure Overlaminate gives an ID card a high level of protection by adding security elements that are extremely difficult to forge, yet easy to authenticate. An overlaminate also makes cards more resistant to everyday wear and tear. Use an HID Global Secure Overlaminate to give the ID cards that protect your organization their own formidable protection. |
For more information on how to customize the right security elements for your company, speak to an HID sales representative or request more information below:
