Protective elements
The rightful pursuit of proper, correct and successful activities whether in the area of business, services or administration is confronted by many risks whereas one of the serious security issues not only in recent times is considered ever growing problem of falsification. Reasons are obvious. Individual entities enter new markets, approach new larger segments of clients or perhaps some new territories are emerging or enlarging. This however also opens new field of activity for various forgers not only by larger space for possible realization of their intentions but also by larger space which is more difficult to control and therefore offers relatively lower risk of being detected.
Growth of falsification can be presently observed in almost all lines of business which calls for even more superior methods of protection against falsification.
The need to protect the product against falsification requires continuous development of ever new and more sophisticated protective elements. Protective elements have two implications: to make the work of falsifiers difficult and above all to allow the identification of the true document of item from a more or less well turned out counterfeit. The ideal protective element can be taken as one only in case that it satisfies certain basic conditions: reliability and effectiveness of the protective method + simplicity and definitiveness of the detection
Considerable technical progress allows and leads to the development and application of new methods of protection against falsifiers. Reliability and efficiency of the security elements is ensured by complex, commonly inaccessible and protected production processes which makes any possible attempts of falsification or imitation technologically complicated, commonly inaccessible and in ideal case therefore virtually impossible. However the application of sophisticated technologies reflects into relatively complicated and for "a regular user" practically impossible verification of whether it is truly the original protection or an imitation or even falsification. Typical examples of such technologies are for example holograms, kinegrams and other optically complicated variable elements.
Only scarcely it is possible to develop some reliable and effective method of protection which would also satisfy the requirement of easy, simple but at the same time definite verification from the laic public perspective as well.
The company Integraf Ltd. which is engaged in the problem of dealing with falsification on a long-term basis has developed a complex system of protection. This system includes the production of the protective element, its application onto the stationary and other products and also the designs and deliveries of systems of detection (devices) of this protective element