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Part 3. Machine Readable Official Travel Documents � Volume 1 Section III. Security of design, manufacture and issuance III-7 5.2.2 Inks Basic features Additional features — UV fluorescent ink (visible and/or invisible) on both sides of the document. — inks with optically variable properties; — metallic inks; — metameric inks; — infrared drop-out inks; — thermochromic inks; — photochromic inks; — infrared fluorescent inks; — phosphorescent inks; — tagged inks. 5.2.3 Numbering A number unique to the document shall appear on the biographical data face of an MRtd. The number is preferably incorporated at the time of manufacture of the card but can alternatively be incorporated at a later stage using the same technique as is used for applying the biographical data. The latter option is less secure as the document is not identifiable until it is personalized. 5.2.4 Special security measures for use with plastic cards Where a travel document is constructed entirely of plastic, optically variable security features shall be employed which give a changing appearance with angle of viewing. Such devices may take the form of latent images, lenticular features, colour-shifting ink, or diffractive optically variable image features. 5.3 Protection against copying 5.3.1 Need for anticopy protection — The current state of development of generally available digital reproduction techniques and the resulting potential for fraud means that high-grade security features in the form of optically variable features or other equivalent devices will be required as safeguards against copying and scanning. Emphasis should be placed on the security of the biographical data page, based on an independent, complex optically variable feature technology or other equivalent devices complementing other security techniques.
III-8 Machine Readable Travel Documents — Appropriate integration of optically variable feature components or other equivalent devices into the layered structure of the biographical data page should also protect the data from fraudulent alteration. The optically variable components and all associated security materials used to create the layered structure must also be protected against counterfeiting. 5.3.2 Anticopy protection methods — Subject to the minimum recommendations described in 5.4.3 and 5.4.4 on the need for lamination, optically variable features should be used on the biographical data side of a td1 or td2 as a basic feature. — Whether protected by a laminate film or overlay or not, one or more optically variable features (preferably based on diffractive structure) should be integrated into the structure of the MRtd, especially into the laminate film or overlay, if one is used. Such a feature should not affect the legibility of the entered data. The inclusion of a diffractive optically variable feature is recommended to achieve an enhanced level of protection against reproduction. — Devices offering equivalent protection may be used in place of an optically variable feature. 5.4 Personalization technique 5.4.1 Document personalization This is the process by which the portrait, signature and/or other biographical data relating to the holder of the document are applied to the travel document. These data record the personalized details of the holder and are at the greatest risk of fraudulent alteration. One of the most frequent types of document fraud involves the removal of the portrait image from a stolen or illegally obtained travel document and its replacement with the portrait of a different person. Documents with stick-in portrait photographs are particularly susceptible to photo substitution. Therefore, this method is not recommended. 5.4.2 Protection against alteration To ensure that data are properly secured against attempts at forgery, it is necessary to integrate the biographical data, including the portrait, signature and main issue data, into the basic material of the document. A variety of technologies are available for imaging the document in this way, including the following, which are listed in no particular order of importance: — electro-photographic printing (e.g. laser printing); — thermal transfer printing; — ink-jet printing; — photographic processes; — laser engraving. It is recommended that any standard equipment used to print personalization data be altered so that it produces one or more unique features in the document that are not available to the general public (for example, broken face type), or that materials used with the equipment, such as inks, are uniquely designed so as to be readily identifiable as a product of that process only.
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