Covert Security
Covert Security Features
Jura’s covert security features include patented high resolution applications for the protection of high security products against reproduction, tampering, counterfeiting, and invisible personalized digital watermarking features for personal office documents without photo.
ICS® – Information Carrier Screen
ICS® is a patented high-resolution digital application for protection of banknotes (US Patent and Trademark Office No. 6,104,812).
Banknotes must be protected against any kind of reproduction, tampering, counterfeiting. The genuine product should not be reproducible but with remarkable changes only (i.e. the original effect does not work on the copy).
ICS® is exclusive for banknotes. This feature is providing hidden information in the screen structure of the existing design. The hidden information is invisible to the human eye and can be verified with a simple decoding device.
ICS® is printed with different high-resolution printing processes (offset, intaglio etc.) in modern security printing works.
ICI® – Invisible Constant Information
ICI® is a patented high-resolution digital application for the protection of legal documents and security products against reproduction.
High security value papers and security documents must be protected against any kind of reproduction, tampering, counterfeiting. The genuine product should not be reproducible but with remarkable changes only (i.e. the original effect does not work on the copy).
ICI® is mainly for high security products. This feature is providing hidden information in the screen structure of the existing design. The hidden information is invisible to the human eye and can be verified with a simple decoding device.
ICI® is printed with different high-resolution printing processes (offset, intaglio etc.) in modern security printing works.
M-ICI® – Microtext-Based Invisible Constant Information
M-ICI® is a revolutionary new feature that hides extra information in micro-printed letters. The embedded information is possible to decode with our simple plastic device only.
M-ICI® has similar attributes to ICI® with certain differences. It is applicable on all high security products including banknotes, using only b&w images as encoded information, and it can be printed with wet and dry offset and also intaglio printing.
IDP – Invisible Document Protection
IDP is a personalized digital watermark placed in the background-print of the document. It’s a security feature developed for personal documents without a photo. IDP contains personalized data chosen from the document itself. This can be placed into a decoration element and printed together in one round with the document text. The feature is offered mainly for issuing authorities of the documents below. IDP is suitable for birth-, death-, marriage-certificates, land and vehicle ownership certificates, university diplomas, notary documents, government documents with restricted circulation, contracts, legal documents etc.
Digital-IPI is a digital variation of IDP that encodes binary data into the photo. Digital-IDP combines the advantages of IDP and 2D-barcodes. The amount of the embedded information is enough to encrypt using strong encryption algorithms (AES or other) what makes the document impossible to manipulate.
Digital-IDP is suitable for similar documents to IDP. Printing Digital-IDP is similar to IDP, optimal with black&white or colour laser printers and it also works with ink-jet printers.
BPAS – Brand Protection Authentication System
BPAS is a security feature consisting of thin, parallel line structures. Due to the fineness and the density of the line structures, BPAS makes an excellent copy-protection feature for government documents and packaging solutions.