Abstract: A smart electronic personal identification document, including a smart identification module and an automated anti-skimming element. The smart identification module includes a contactless chip module and an antenna. The smart identification module is operative to store and exchange personal identification information contactlessly with an external reader. The automated anti-skimming element is configured for preventing unauthorized theft of the information.

Abstract: A smart electronic personal identification document, including a smart identification module and an automated anti-skimming element. The smart identification module includes a contactless chip module and an antenna. The smart identification module is operative to store and exchange personal identification information contactlessly with an external reader. The automated anti-skimming element is configured for preventing unauthorized theft of the information.

Abstract: A difficult-to-counterfeit document comprising, together with data printed in visible form, invisible indicia that are personalized in nature, and which cannot be seen without the cooperation of an external factor. The invisible indicia are printed with a luminescent ink or toner, and becomes visible by the application of irradiaton, such as UV light. The luminescent ink or toner may comprise fluorescent materials. The same type of document may bear different invisible indicia for different bearers or documents, and may be printed by conventional digital printing methods.

Abstract: A method for creating marked, difficult-to-counterfeit documents, comprising labeling printed documents produced by solid toner apparatus, such as a laser printer or a copying machine. The toner comprises a material the presence of which can be detected using spectrophotometric techniques. The toner is marked with a single compound, emitting light in a known spectrum. Two or more compounds having different spectra are mixed, so as to produce a characteristic “code” or “signature” as the result of their excitation with light. The amount of marked toner present at a given point on the document is preser as a threshold value, below which a document is considered not authentic. The position of the marked toner on the document is specifically selected, and the authenticity of the document is determined by detecting the presence of the marked toner at a specific location on the document.

Abstract: A method for making documents, in particular identifying documents, such as passports and identifying cards, comprises the steps of providing a set of signals, particularly digital signals, defining an image to be printed on the document; providing a temporary substrate; depositing on the temporary substrate coloring matters, whereby to produce thereon the image, by the conventional laser printing method; provisionally setting the image; juxtaposing the temporary substrate with its face carrying the image in contact with the rear face of a transparent substrate; transferring the image from the temporary substrate to the transparent substrate, whereby the image is applied to the transparent substrate rear face and is visible through the transparent substrate from the front face thereof; removing the temporary substrate; and binding the transparent substrate, by lamination, to other components of the document to be produced.

Abstract: Graphic matter, such as words and images, is printed on a document in bound form, such as passport, by forming the graphic matter by laser printing steps on a temporary substrate and provisionally setting the graphic matter thus formed on the temporary substrate. Thereafter, the temporary substrate is juxtaposed with its face carrying the image in contact with the rear face of a transparent substrate, and the image is transferred to the rear face of this latter. Then the transparent substrate is juxtaposed to the final substrate that is intended to carry the image, with its rear face in contact with the front face of the final substrate, and the two substrates are laminated together, so that the image remains enclosed in the laminate and is visible from the front face of the transparent substrate as if it were printed on the final substrate.