Intuitive Document Design with KINEGRAM PCI Full Data Protection

The KINEGRAM PCI with Full Data Protection (FDP) concept significantly enhances the security of polycarbonate-based documents and offers a future-proof design concept, ready for securing tomorrow’s ID documents.

The concept has already gained significant momentum, with several new passports and identity documents using Full Data Protection recently issued. Among these are the new National ID Card of Bulgaria and the Law enforcement staff ID credentials at U.S. Government Agencies. A number of documents with KINEGRAM FDP is expected to be issued during 2026. All of these references exhibit the solution’s capability to cleverly embed KINEGRAM security effects in seamless integration with the document’s background print, providing both intuitive verifiability of the document as well as individually designed protection of the document’s personalized information and photograph.

What makes KINEGRAM PCI FDP unique?

Technically speaking, KINEGRAM PCI with FDP provides efficient protection of large surface areas of an ID card or a passport data page. What this means in practice is an unparalleled potential to enable truly intuitive verification. The KINEGRAM feature and the document print together tell a story that even the untrained eye can immediately understand and remember.

With KINEGRAM FDP, the diffractive security effects of the KINEGRAM are embedded in perfectly seamless integration with the background print of the passport’s data page or the ID card that it secures. This means that the personalized information of the document is fully safeguarded. Critically, this does not interfere with visibility or readability. The solution facilitates truly intuitive verification thanks to its perfectly integrated design.

Bulgarian ID card protected with KINEGRAM PCI with Full Data Protection (FDP)

Effortless Human and Machine Verification

Due to the intelligent, cleverly distributed and integrated coverage of the document holder’s data and portrait, KINEGRAM FDP ensures that the personalized information is fully secured, but remains perfectly visible for both human and machine inspection. Due to the comparatively larger surface area, the numerous distinctive security effects of the KINEGRAM technology can be deployed to their best and offer immediate and clear visual verification landmarks.

This level of design integration is facilitated by close cooperation between the feature and the document designer – a cooperation that will not only focus on desired motifs and visuals, but also their distribution and relationship, or in other words, the story that the design is intended to tell. The overall composition is crafted with visual, story-like coherence in mind.

US HHS Refugee Card with Full Data Protection (FDP)

ICAO Recommendation: Large Portraits for ID Documents

Recent ICAO recommendations emphasize how ID cards in portrait format and equipped with a maximum-size photograph can be particularly effective in combating identity misuse and detecting photo manipulation. Such documents enable a more accurate and more reliable authentication of identities.

The KINEGRAM PCI FDP concept is particularly well suited for such secure, modern ID card formats with maximum size photographs. With an embedded full-surface KINEGRAM PCI with FDP, this new layout reaches very high levels of security and makes polycarbonate-based documents safer than ever before.

The new ID card format with maximum size photograph protected with KINEGRAM PCI with Full Data Protection (FDP)