Security That Covers the Entire Document – Design Integration of KINEGRAM PCI With Full Data Protection (FDP)

KINEGRAM PCI with FDP technology enables exceptionally integrated designs and highly advanced optical security for polycarbonate passports and ID cards. This is especially useful for clear, confident, and efficient document inspection – be it by trained experts at borders, frontline officers, or by persons with limited experience such as local government employees.

What sets KINEGRAM PCI with FDP apart from other solutions is its capability to seamlessly integrate optical security effects – based on the unique KINEGRAM technology – with the document’s background security print. This not only offers comprehensive, full-surface protection of the personalized data and photograph, but also the possibility to have the security feature and the print tell a story that even an untrained eye can immediately understand.

The KINEGRAM, the background print and the overall design concept of the document work together as one coherent concept that enables truly intuitive verification. Our “Who Stole the Honey” sample is a prime example for such an integrated security design that naturally guides the eye to the optical security effects, and supports intuitive document verification:

A bear has stolen honey from a beehive, and its paw prints appear across the passport’s data page. They playfully protect important personalized data such as the dates of issue and expiry. As the bear shook the tree and pulled on the branches, leaves fell around him. Following the footprints, we find the bear as he is licking up spilled honey.

Document inspection is first and foremost a visual process and relies on clearly discernible, easy-to-understand and easy-to-use security features. KINEGRAM PCI with FDP can guide the inspector’s eye naturally across the data page, connecting optical security effects with the document’s printed motifs and enabling intuitive verification.

The intelligent, cleverly distributed, and integrated protection of the personalized data and holder’s portrait of a KINEGRAM PCI with FDP feature ensures that all data is fully secured, while remaining perfectly visible for both human and machine-supported document inspection.

As a result of covering the entire surface, the numerous distinctive security effects of the KINEGRAM technology can be deployed to their best advantage, offering immediate and clear visual verification landmarks. The print design and the KINEGRAM feature telling the same story gives the observer an intuitive path through the document, and the authentication flow becomes easy to remember and easy to explain.

Achieving exceptionally well-integrated design concepts requires a close coordination during the creation of a new or updated document design. The strongest and most secure document designs are achieved when issuing authorities, document designers and the security feature specialist work together in the early phases of a project.

This collaborative approach helps to ensure that security is not reduced to a checklist of individual elements, but based on the clever composition of sophisticated protective elements and latest design standards into an integrated whole. KINEGRAM PCI with FDP contributes by offering security that covers the entire data page. Optical security effects with unparalleled precision and flexibility protect the personalized information and photograph, and can ingeniously be integrated with the overall document design.

The collaboration should not only focus on desired motifs and visuals, evaluating each element for its capabilities to include unique optical effects, but also their distribution and visual relationship – in short, its aim is to animate the story that the design is intended to tell. The overall composition can then be crafted with cohesion and intuitive verification in mind.

The resulting synergy between artistic and technical elements has the potential to achieve visually compelling documents that effectively reflect national identity. Highly intuitive documents can be a natural result of such well-integrated designs. As such, KINEGRAM PCI with FDP helps create highly secure documents that tell their story with confidence and clarity.