New Report Explores Printing Beyond Colour

Many technologies and features with their roots in commercial printing have made, and continue to make, a substantial contribution to secure document production. However, these technologies have for the most part been concerned with producing visual colours, perceived by the unaided eye as conventional colour printing.

A new technology report – ‘Printing Beyond Colour: Commercial Innovations for Security Print’ – examines the latest generation of inks and digital printing techniques that venture beyond visual colour into a domain filled with the potential to generate a whole new set of features for secure documents.

The report looks at competing and complementary technologies that are highly relevant to authentication and that look likely to have a significant impact on the digitisation of print in the near term. These include smartphone cameras with multi and hyper spectral imaging opportunities, wearable electronics, and augmented reality.

The author of this new report is Dr Alan Hodgson, consultant in printing and imaging technologies, and the report has been published by business intelligence consultancy Reconnaissance International (RI).

‘Printing Beyond Colour: Commercial Innovations for Security Print’ is targeted at companies that provide security printing and authentication solutions to the currency, ID, tax stamp and brand protection sectors. The report provides an informative technical analysis of what is coming out of the commercial printing arena and how this could be adapted and applied to the security world.

The report is available to purchase in printed form or as a PDF download from the RI eStore here.