In this article, Dr Mark Deakes from ITW Speciality Films, part of the US- headquartered ITW Group, gives some insights into the crucial role holography plays in securing government ID documents.

As IQ Structures, a member of the IQS Group, expands its capacity to protect over 1 billion documents a year, it is looking at ways to simplify the job of the document inspector and frustrate the work of the counterfeiter.

Holography, and other optical security devices, have become a mainstay of document design when it comes to protecting the photo and personally identifiable information on ID cards, passports, visa stickers and other documents for authenticating a person.