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Insights into New OVDsDr Mark Deakes - Director of Optical & Authentication Technologies

General Secretary of the International Hologram Manufacturers Association (IHMA)

Reconnaissance International 1

Disclaimer:

• The International Hologram Manufacturers Association

• What is an Optically Variable Device?

• Banknote OVDs

• ID OVDs

• Tax stamps, Labels and Packaging OVDs

• The Hologram Image Register (HIR)

Agenda

IHMA Chairman: Manoj Kochar

E-mail:[email protected]

www.ihma.org

Fast Facts

• A not-for-profit industry association

founded in 1993.

• Represents the interests of hologram

manufacturers and the global hologram

industry.

• Now has over 100 members of the world’s

top-tier hologram producers.

• Members are strictly vetted prior to

acceptance.

• Code of Practice for members.

Member Benefits

• The Hologram Image Register (HIR)

• IHMA Patent Bulletin.

• Tender Alerts & Sales Leads.

• Holography News® (monthly).

• Publicity & Education.

• Discount to the The Holography

Conference™.

• Demonstrates commitment to ethical

business practices and quality

products.

The International Hologram Manufacturers Association

(IHMA)

Optically Variable Devices (OVDs)

“An optical variable device or optically variable device (OVD)

is an iridescent image that exhibits various optical effects

such as movement or color changes. OVDs cannot be

photocopied or scanned, nor can they be accurately replicated or

reproduced.

The OVD is often used as a security device and anti-counterfeiting

measure on money, credit cards and identification cards. OVDs

can be created through a combination of printing and embossing.”

Not all OVDs are iridescent…

Dictionary definition:

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_variable_device

What is an Optically Variable Device?

Iridescence (also known as goniochromism)

is the property of certain surfaces that

appear to change colour as the angle of

view or the angle of illumination changes.

Photo by Mila ZinkovaSource: wikipedia.org

What is Iridescence?

Types of Optically Variable Devices (OVDs)

Non-Iridescent OVDs Iridescent OVDs

Lens Arrays &

MoiréDiffractive (DOVIDS*)

Grating Structures

Interference thin film

Structures

First Order Structures Zero Order Structures Single Layer

StructuresMulti-Layer

Structures

Peacock Feathers

Bragg structures

Volume Holograms

Coextruded Foils

Liquid Crystals

Soap Film

OVI

Zero Order Devices

Diffractive Identifcation

Device (DID)

Hologram 3D Flat Artwork Laser Holograms

Multiplane 2D/3D

3D Rainbow Hologram

Holographic StereogramImage Elements

Dot Matrix

Blazed Gratings

Fourier Holograms(Kinoforms)

*DOVIDS= Diffractive optically variable image device

Watermarks

What’s New?

Design

Integration

Feature

Integration

Volume

HologramsWindows

Banknote OVDs

New Euro Banknote Series– Integrated Design & Windows (€20 & 50)

Registered stripes utilises

Kurz KINEGRAM Review®

technology that displays two

different diffractive designs

on the front and the reverse

of the transparent window

and a third image in

transmission.

Viewed in transmission

Banknote OVDs

Fabriano Securities – VistɅ™ Integrated Design & Windows

Viewed in reflection

Source: Currency Conference 2015 Vancouver.

The VistɅ holographic demetalised stripe

is registered to the window in the

banknote.

Similarly to the KINEGRAM Review® in

the window two different holographic

images, that do not interfere with each

other, can be viewed in reflection, on the

front and back face of the window. A third

image is visible in transmission.Viewed in transmission

Banknote OVDs

New Zealand Polymer Banknotes ‘Brighter Money Series’ –

Integrated Design & Holographic Windows

The demetalised holographic window feature incorporates

KINEGRAM ZERO.ZERO® technology developed and

supplied by Kurz, and is applied as a patch onto a clear

window in the Guardian® polymer substrate supplied by CCL

Secure.

Banknote OVDs

Source: Holography News® Sept 2015.

Australia Polymer Banknotes – Integrated Design & Holographic

Windows

The partially demetalised top-to-bottom holographic window can be

viewed from both sides, incorporates KINEGRAM ZERO.ZERO®

technology developed and supplied by Kurz.The Guardian® polymer

substrate is supplied by CCL Secure.

Banknote OVDs

Source: Holography News® Sept 2016.

Bank of England £5 & £10 polymer– Integrated Design &

Holographic Window

Incorporated 3 metallic colours: gold,

silver & copper.

Winchester Cathedral is gold on the front

and silver on the back.

£ symbol is silver on the front and copper

on the back

Both the £5 & £10 incorporate a

Coronation Crown that appears 3D on

both notes.

Banknote OVDs

Source: Holography News® June 2016.

The demetalised holographic foil stripe

window feature incorporates

KINEGRAM COLORS® technology

developed by Kurz, and is applied onto

Guardian® polymer substrate supplied

by CCL Secure.

The Elizabeth Tower (Big Ben) is gold

on the front and silver on the back.

Source: Holography News® August 2017.

Banknote OVDsLATITUDE® from CCL Secure

Source: High Security Printing™ Latin America

Conference Mexico, 2016. Nicaragua series,

Regional Banknote of the Year Award 2016.

Source: High Security Printing Conference, Hungary 2015.

20 –Zloty Regional Banknote of the Year Award 2015.

The 200 Córdobas is the world’s

first circulating banknote to

feature an image in LATITUDE.

LATITUDE is not restricted to

patch or stripe formats.

LATITUDE is an OVD window

feature that is generated directly

into the polymer substrate surface.

No hot stamping foil process is

required. Silver nano-particles are

integrated into the substrate layer.

Commemorative banknote: The Centenary of the Formation of the Polish Legions 2014.

Source: Banco Central De Nicaragua.

Registered stripe with dual colour Kinegram® VOLUME ® hologram

Kinegram® zero.zero® combined with Kinegram® VOLUME® DOVID

Combination of VOLUME® hologram with de-metallised Kinegram®

Foreground

High Resolution

Kinegram®

with

partial

de-metallization

Background

VOLUME® Hologram

Source: “A Photopolymer-based OVD for Banknote Applications” Wayne R. Tompkin & Andreas Schilling ODS 2010.

Banknote OVDsVolume Holograms

Volume Holography – Israel & Switzerland

The 50 Swiss Franc note is the first in the

world to feature a two colour (red & green)

KINEGRAM VOLUME® foil stripe that is

combined with a partially metallised

KINEGRAM® provided by Kurz. The

banknote is printed on a 3-layer substrate

- Durasafe® provided by Lanquart.

50 Shekel banknote (2014), was

the first note to feature

KINEGRAM VOLUME®, followed

by the 200. The Shekel foil stripe

features holographic images of the

note denomination.

Banknote OVDs

Source: Holography News® April 2016.

Source: Holography News® Feb 2016.

20 & 100 Shekel banknote

announced for issue this year.Source: Holography News® Feb 2017.

This was followed by the 20 CHF and this month the 10 CHF

note. Source: Holography News® May 2017.

3D-Gram-C

R+G holographic image «100» with

«floating» image;

R+G holographic image «100» with

«shadow» effect;

R+G+B holographic image «100».

3D-Gram-C

Source: HSP Europe, Bucharest, March 2016, & Holography News® Feb 2016.

Volume Holographic Threads from Krypten

Dai Nippon (DNP) also have been active in this area with photopolymer threads

Animation by Rudolf van Renesse

Asterium from Toppan printing in

Japan is a ‘diffractive black’

structure. Viewed in normal direct

light this feature appears black

but when inclined at an extreme

angle, the rainbow colours of the

DOVID appear.

Asterium from Toppan Printing

Other Banknote OVD Developments

RollingStar® LEAD combines all of the above and

demetallisation into a single structure transfer foil.

Louisenthal’s:RollingStar®, RollingStar® LEAD,Varifeye® &

Galaxy®

Micro-mirror array Source: Holography News® Nov 2016.

RollingStar® thread utilises micro-mirrorsSource: HSP Lima, June 2015.

Varifeye® ColourChange &

Galaxy® Varifeye – translucent and

transparent window foil feature

that utilises micro-mirrors.

Source: The Currency Conference 2017

Galaxy – combines

movement, colourshift and 3D

& micro-mirrors into a thread

COSMIC - acronym standing

for COlor Shift MetallIC.

FLUX – foil patches movements in a

wide selection of colours. Combines

intricate shapes and transparent areas

created by partial metallisation.

HDM - extremely clean and precise

partial metallisation and line resolution.


ColorDance-Shift combines

ColorDance and colorshift into a

single structure providing: dynamic

image & text, a colorshifting

background and different colors

between the image & background.

ColorDance™& ColorDance-Shift™ threads from ZSST*

Source: HSP Mexico, 2016.

KINEGRAM®: COSMIC, FLUX

& HDM from KURZ

ColorDance thread

provides a dynamic and

parallax effects combined

with stable colours. Patch

& stripe also available.

Source: The Holography Conference,

Shanghai, 2015

* Zhongchao Special Security Technology

The 20 Zloty commemorative note is

the first in the world to showcase

SURYS’ new Diffractive Identification

Device (DID) features, namely DID

Wave™ and DID Virtual™. The black

floral motif changes colour on rotation.

Available as a thread and as window

patch feature.

Source: “Authentication of Security Documents: Road to Revolution” by Hughes Souparis of Hologram Industries/Surys at

High Security Printing Asia, Manila, January 15th 2015 & The Holography Conference, Warsaw, 2016.

Plasmogram™ and Plasmogram™ Tricolor from SURYS


DID Wave® and DID Virtual from SURYS

Source: Holography News® May 2016.

Plasmon resonance is the collective

oscillation of electrons in a solid or liquid

stimulated by incident light. The

resonance condition is established when

the frequency of the light photons

matches the natural frequency of the

surface electrons.

Swedish 1000 crown 2006,

with Motion feature.

When rotating about a vertical

axis, the parallax has vertical

movement, when rotating about

a horizontal axis, the parallax

has a horizontal movement.

This orthoclastic movement is

counter-intuitive because it is at

right angles to normal parallax.

4 mm threadMicro-optic OVDs : Motion® From Crane

Animation by Rudolf van Renesse

Lens array overlay

$ image element arrayGeneral layout of a cross section of the Motion® feature

(Patent US 2005/0180020 A1)

Micro-lens array top layer and a $-icon array bottom layer.

Other Banknote OVD Developments: Non-Iridescent

Micro-optic stripe feature, applied using

an Optinota and the carrier film removed.

A combination of different effects are

possible to create maximum

engagement.

Micro-optic OVDs : Motion® Rapid From Crane

Source: Crane Currency


MOTION RAPID

RAPID lenses:

1/3 size of MOTION lenses

3 x the movement

Source: 200 Kroner note, Crane Currency

Surface From Crane

Source: HSP Latam Guatemala, 2017

Micro-optic OVDs : SUSI Optics™


Source: Currency Conference, Kuala Lumpur, 2017

Foil based feature with lens based micro-optics

• SUSI Optics™: cooperation feature with KBA-NotaSys, LenSys, Kurz, Note

Printing Australia, Sicpa and De La Rue support for polymer banknotes

• Foil includes perfectly shaped lenses and is applied over offset print

creating unique and striking effects

Lens Image

Easy authentication

through large and

obvious colour-

switching images.

HORIZON is a lenticular technology that uses 12µ lens that provide excellent mechanical

strength; HORIZON uses the entire depth of the substrate making extraction or reapplication of

the feature very difficult. Image can be up to 20mm wide enabling large contrasting switching

images.

HORIZON® 35µ dots

Source: CCL Secure

Other Banknote OVD Developments: Non-iridescent

Micro-Optic OVDs : Horizon® From CCL Secure

Sample of a Kinegram® DynaMic stripe on a sample banknote (2010).

In the top and bottom sections the device displays a dynamic horizontal

movement of a size-changing denomination “20” when the sample is

tilted either from left-to-right or up-and-down.

The central section of the stripe contains a conventional Kinegram® with

typical kinematic diffractive fine-line effects.

Source: “Dynamic 1-D moiré features for banknote and document security” Andreas Schilling & Wayne R. Tompkin,, ODS 2010.

Other Banknote OVD DevelopmentsMicro-optic OVDs : Kinegram® DynaMic From OVD Kinegram

Source: Courtesy SICPA, Switzerland.

Animations by Rudolf Van Renesse

Magnetically Optically Variable Inks (MOVI) – from SICPA

SPARK® Orbital™SPARK Live similar

technology to

SPARK but uses

smaller pigments

and a modified

magnetisation

module.

A wide range of

effects and design

opportunities.

SPARK® Live

SPARK®

Other Banknote OVD Developments - Inks

Source: Courtesy De La Rue, UK.

What’s New?

Design

Integration

Opto-

digital

Embedded

OVDs

Poly carbonate

& Windows

ID OVDs

Optical Smart™ from SurysID OVDs

Optokey OVDs combine a digital data matrix code

with a high definition micro image that is part of the

holographic security design. Using a dedicated app

specific images and properties from the OVD can be

authenticated without the need for an internet

connection.

Flashcard™ is similar to Optokey.

Provided the hologram is genuine:

• Is able to access a central database

and identify and track and trace the

bearer identity.

• The bearer’s picture on the card can

then be checked and authenticated to

the picture held on the database.

An example of Flashcard functionality, courtesy of surys.

Optokey on an ID card showing a magnified holographic micro image and 2D

barcode.

Source: Holography News® June 2016.

Surys has combined optical authentication and smartphone usage into a high security opto-digital

foils called Optical Smart™ ID :Optokey™ and Flashcard™.

ID OVDs

Source: Holography News® August 2016.

OVD Kinegram - Kinegram Digital Seal

RPC Krypten (Russia) - photopolymer laminate 3D Gram-M

Source: Holography News® Dec 2016 & May 2017.

Kinegram Digital Seal reads the Kinegram and Kinegram features before

verification.

• Encodes the biographical data found in the optical

character recognition (OCR) line from an identity

document into QR code that can be read using a

smartphone.

• The QR code (can be encrypted if required) and is

protected against counterfeiting or manipulation by

the use of a Kinegram optical structure and the

information read using an intelligent smartphone app

that does not require any special add on devices.

The 3D Gram-M overlay has a

bright reflectance at discreet

angles and undergoes a

colour change from green to

gold and finally red when

viewed at acute angles.

IHMA Excellence in Holography Awards Commended in the innovation in holographic technology category, 2016.

De La Rue (UK) & DNP -

photopolymer SHIELD Volume™

Source: Holography News® July 2015.

Pre-recorded

grating hologram

With exposure, adhesive diffuses into hologram

1. Low

swelling

Photographic

exposure

2. Average

swelling

3. High

swelling

Photosensitive

adhesive

p = 0,24 µm p = 0,27 µm p = 0,30 µm

Final image curing by UV radiation

The image is created by swelling

the volume hologram as a

function of common

photographic exposure.

Source: HoloID®; Surys, France

Photopolymer Volume

Reflection Holograms

Photopolymer Volume Reflection OVD

DID™ Shape from SurysID OVDs

Surys has developed a FULL FACE DOVID embedded in the polycarbonate document.

Source: The Holography Conference, 2016, courtesy of Surys.

The DID image elements are spread

over the ID document surface.

The image elements are fused into the

card.

ITW - Holoprint

HoloPrint customisable

laminate patch for PVC, PC,

PET and composite cards.

Source: Holography News® Apr 2017.

proID from IQ Structures

The DOVID image

elements are

spread over the ID

document surface

and fused within

the body of the

card.Source: HSP EMEA, 2017, Baku.

Optaglio OVImage™Micro-holograms

embedded in the

card or hot stamped.

ID OVDs

A holographic product developed as a

hot-stampable inlay for polycarbonate

(PC) cards and datapages that can be

used in transparent windows.

Dual parallax feature enables the image

to move L-R whilst also moving up and

down.Source: Holography News® Oct 2016.

Andrews & Wykeham - FLO-MO™

Opalux - OpalPrint Polycarbonate

Source: Opalux 2017. KINEGRAM RECOLOR® & REVIEW®

KINEGRAM® PCI, PRIME & HDM

KINEGRAM HDM

is a new

metallisation

technology,

resolution line

widths down to

10-15 microns.

KINEGRAM PRIME is print

& metal in perfect register.

What’s New?

SerialisationTrack &

Trace

Fresnel

Lenses

Tax Stamps, Labels & Packaging OVDs

Adoption of

Standards

Tax Stamps, Labels & Packaging OVDs

Track and TraceWhat is Track?

Definition: ‘track refers to the concept of

marking an individual item with a

serialisation code (or UID) so that it can

be monitored from the point of

production up to the point of sale to the

customer, including each step in

between thereby creating a complete

time and location history for that item’.

What is Trace?

Definition: ‘trace refers to the ability to

identify the past or current location of an

individual item’.

The 2 definitions combine to form traceability

One scan can validate different features of the tax

stamp including the OVD!

OVD Tax Stamps & Labels – Many Providers! 1. DROP™ (Digital Recognition of Pattern) from

Surys/Hologram. Industries

2. Secutrace®/ TRUSTCODE® from Kurz

3. Holoseal® from Andrews & Wykeham /

Advanced Track & Trace

4. HoloQR from Holoptica

5. Holotronic Seal™ from Bowater

6. Optrace, serialised photopolymer

7. HoloTag from MTM

8. SecureITT & eTRACS from Opsec & Xerox

9. Authentic Vision

10.Teso Scribos

11.Dupont/De La Rue

12.Hologram Company, RAKO

4.0 Label

13. HOLOSTIK

14.Holoflex

15.Matrix Technologies

16.Garsu Pasaulis

17. AM-PG

18.NovaVision

19.Opsec Insight

20.Securikett

21.Uflex

22.Dai Nippon

Packaging OVD Examples

API - Holonique™ for

brand enhancement &

differentiation

Dupont / De La Rue – Izon® 3D

photopolymer packaging and

labelling film

Unifoil’s Be Joyful decorative display cube

with Fresnel lens. AIMCAL 2016 award

winner. 1 and 2 show examples of packaging

incorporating Fresnel lens film whilst 3

shows an example of Fresnel lens film.

Uflex - Fresnel LensUnifoil - Fresnel Lens

Kurz – Multicolor, Duocolor

& TRUSTCONCEPT®

TRUSTSEAL®,

TRUSTCOLOR®

Fresnels Inc – Hot

Stamping Fresnels Lens

Foils

Hazen Paper

Company- Envirofoil®

& Hazen-Lens™

Morphotonix

HologramCap

The IHMA Hologram Image Register (HIR)

• The Jewel in the IHMA crown, operated by the Criminal intelligence Bureau (CIB). Online submission!

• A record of registered hologram images in use, around the world.

• Helps to prevent members inadvertently copying holograms they would otherwise not know of.

• Helps to identify attempts to source copy holograms and pursue the offenders.

• No other authentication/security product has such a register.

Conclusion

• Innovation in the OVD sector is thriving with many new

features/products and technologies coming to market.

“Innovation is the difference between leaders and followers” Steve Jobs

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