10 Years of LASINK™: Colour and Security at the Heart of Sovereign Identity Documents

It’s been 10 years since LASINK™ was introduced into the ID and secure document market. In this technical feature celebrating the impact of the technology, IN Groupe takes a look at what LASINK™ has achieved in improving secure colour portraiture.

Improvement without compromise

Some revolutions are ongoing, and LASINK™ sits firmly in that category.

When polycarbonate datapages and card bodies became widely adopted from the mid-2000s, the sector gained a decisive security advantage: personal data could be laser-engraved into the internal layers of the document rather than printed on the surface, raising the barrier to alteration and forgery.

But this shift came with a compromise.