Covert L2 features for identity and value documents
Passports, visas, ID cards and polymer banknotes demand security that cannot be reproduced with commercial equipment. They are core SNOWLEOPARD® applications, and the technology has been deployed worldwide in specialized applications since 2005.
Forgery meets commercially available print technology
As consumer print and finishing equipment improves, overt document features alone no longer separate genuine from forged.
Reproduced overt features
Holograms, guilloché and microtext are approximated closely enough to pass casual inspection at a border or counter.
Modified genuine documents
Authentic documents are altered — photographs, dates and entitlements changed — while base security features remain.
Declining hologram confidence
Governments are moving away from holograms as counterfeiting susceptibility undermined their authority.
Inscribed into the document substrate
Fixed or variable alphanumeric text, images and logos are etched submicron into polymer and film layers.
- Polymer banknote substrate
- Passport data pages and laminates
- ID and access card bodies
- Visa and permit stock
- Tamper-evident labels on certificates
Border and counter verification in seconds
Officers authenticate with breath alone — no reader deployment, maintenance or power dependency across thousands of checkpoints.
Typical items protected in document protection
Document Protection questions
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