King Printing Solutions gets lots of questions from our customers on specialized print treatments. The most common: What is security paper? In today’s risky world, people are particularly interested in ways to protect their valuable printed material from forgery or theft. One way to ward off the crooks is to use high-tech security papers.
A common lesson about money for grade school children is show how the U.S. Department of the Treasury uses a special paper to discourage counterfeiters. Look at a dollar bill under a magnifying glass, and you can see little red and blue fibers embedded into the paper. The paper is exclusive to the government and difficult to duplicate.
But since you learned that in school, things have gotten a little more complex. The ability to manipulate images by computer and more sophisticated digital printers mean that criminals could mimic more detailed elements of currency or other documents. And that has led to the development of more sophisticated papers that can thwart attempts to create fakes and forgeries.
As part of its KingSafe™ series of document security options, King Printing Solutions now offers a series of security papers that can be used with checks, deeds, titles, and other important documents of value. Features that can prevent duplication and forgery include:
- Papers with visible fibers of different colors
- Papers with invisible fibers that can only be seen under special light
- Bonded paper that prevents printing from being scraped off, erased, or altered
- Watermarks embedded into the paper
- Chemicals embedded into the paper that cause it to change color if someone attempts to alter it with other chemicals
- Papers with magnetic ink compatibility (Magnetic ink allows banks to clear checks using computers, and verify their authenticity).
These papers (often combined with other security features, make it difficult if not impossible to alter an important document or forge a copy. Hope we’ve helped answer questions you have about what is security paper.
Protecting important documents has become more challenging, but the printing industry has responded. King Printing Solutions now offers more than 20 different security features as part of its KingSafe security options. To learn more, contact us, or call 800-251-9236. If you already have a document with a security specification, get a quote.