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Document fraud is no longer the exclusive domain of professional criminals. Anyone with a little ingenuity can tamper with your important documents. Fraud wears many masks, and document security must deter counterfeiting and alteration. The most effective defense is layering paper-based and print-based security features.
RR Donnelley's Check Security offers three levels of protection:
- RR Donnelley Basic
- RR Donnelley Value
- RR Donnelley Premium
Each level offers increasing deterrence to effective reproduction, chemical alteration, and mechanical removal of critical data. These features are available for financial use documents as well as certificates of vital records, titles, money orders and other documents requiring fraud deterrence. Incorporating an appropriate number of these security features into value documents will not only provide deterrence to counterfeiting and alteration but will also demonstrate that you are exercising due diligence in complying with UCC regulations.
RR Donnelley can offer you an extensive variety of paper-based security features, including genuine mill watermarks, toner retention, chemical sensitization, security fibers, security threads and machine authentication inclusions.
 Genuine mill watermarks are integrated into the paper fibers during the paper-making process, resulting in localized displacement of the fibers, causing the paper to become more or less translucent. When held up to the light, the watermark can be viewed through the document from either side.
Watermarks are available in a variety of standard and custom paper mill designs. RR Donnelley's unique CONSERVATOR® offers the highest level of security. The design is trademarked by RR Donnelley, is produced only for RR Donnelley and is used only in RR Donnelley facilities.
Genuine Mill Watermarks provide a high level of security. They are widely recognized as the major deterrent to counterfeiting since they cannot be photocopied, removed, easily replicated, or corrupted. Toner Retention
RR Donnelley uses toner retention treated papers to enhance the bonding of laser-printed data to the paper surface. This deters the possibility of altering a document by lifting or scraping away the toner image and replacing it with new data.- Chemically sensitized security paper is designed to thwart attempts to chemically alter the document. Such an attempt will result in a visible stain through the paper. Paper can be sensitive to Acids, Alkalis, Bleach, Polar solvents and Non-polar solvents.
It is recommended that paper contain at least 3 family chemical sensitivity (Chlorine Bleach, Polar & Non-Polar Solvents). To provide the greatest level of deterrence to chemical alteration, full 5 family chemical sensitization, which also includes reaction to Acids and Alkalis, is highly recommended.
- Security fibers are short, fine, colored fibers which are embedded and randomly distributed throughout the paper pulp as the paper is being made. They are available in a variety of colors:visible, visible fluorescent, or invisible fluorescent. The invisible fluorescent fibers are only viewable under a UV black light, and cannot be photocopied.
- A security thread is a visible thread integrated into the paper during the paper-making process, often to supplement the security of a watermark. Several types are available, including microprinted, machine-readable, holographic and thermochromic.
The most popular security thread is one with microprinted text. The microprinted text cannot be photocopied or scanned, and the thread itself cannot be removed without destroying the paper.
- Machine-authenticating inclusions are machine readable embedded fiber formations which require a reading device to authenticate and/or decode.
 Copy-Void Pantographs
RR Donnelley offers various void pantographs as deterrents against the high-tech color copiers frequently used for counterfeiting purposes. SecureScan is also compatible with bank check image processors and allows the pantograph background to drop out during the image processing operation. This allows cleaner images for OCR reading without background obstruction and permits a reduction in requisite archival storage space. To qualify for reduced postal rates, the SS1 "Horizon" pantograph, used in the postal scan window, is also compatible with US Postal Service scanners.- SecurityMark®
A reflective security design printed in fluorescent white opaque ink allows the mark to be viewed when the document is held at an angle. The fluorescent effect can be viewed by illuminating the mark with a UV black light, providing further proof of authenticity. This feature offers value as a photocopier deterrent.
 DocuSafe®
DocuSafe is a printed feature using thermochromic heat reactive ink which can be formulated to provide a reversible shift in color, or a transition from color to colorless, when exposed to heat. Activation can occur simply by rubbing with one’s finger.
Although it is possible to reproduce a color on a color copier, the thermochromic effect cannot be reproduced, and requires no special devices for verification. DocuSafe provides an easy method for determining the authenticity of a document but is recommended as part of a layered deterrent system. LogoLine®
LogoLine uses microprinted text which can be read only under magnification. When photocopied, the text will appear as a solid or jagged line and thus provides a low-cost feature which can be used to verify an authentic document versus a counterfeit.
 Warning Bands, Security Alert , Padlock Icon & Warning Box
These features are intended to alert the document recipient to the presence of certain security features used in/on the document.
The Warning Band is printed on the face of the document, usually in reverse print, and points out a particular security feature to be verified.
The Security Alert typically repeats the advisement in the warning band accompanied by a schematic of the feature to be verified.
The Padlock Icon on the face is a visual trigger to the Warning Box on the back which lists the main security features found on the document, where they are located, and how they are intended to react to counterfeit and alteration attempts.
Building these security features into your negotiable documents will show that due diligence has taken place and will assist you in complying with UCC rules.- Alpha Lines
Alpha Lines is a security background printed on the back of a document. The design is comprised of a combination of customized text within lines of varying widths and spacing. This feature provides the optimum deterrent against attempts to cut and paste critical data from one document to another and affords a low-cost means of branding the document with your organization's tag line.
 Penetrating Numbers
A penetrating number is a dual-image number that "bleeds" through the document, providing a feature that is difficult to remove or alter.
 Alter Alert Erasure-sensitive Ink
RR Donnelley's Alter Alert is an erasure-sensitive ink that's used in background printing to deter alteration through abrasive methods. Alter Alert ink is particularly effective when used with SafetyBloc to indicate gaps in design continuity.
- SafetyBloc®
SafetyBloc is a security background design used in critical data fields on a document. This feature is a deterrent against the forgery of critical data on a document. If attempts are made to alter by erasure or other mechanical means, gaps will appears in the continuity of the SafetyBloc design.
 High-Resolution Borders
High-resolution borders, created from artwork prepared by banknote engravers, are very artistic and are comprised of clear and unbroken fine lines which may appear blurred or indistinct when photocopied. Latent images, which can be viewed under magnification, may also be included in the border design.- RealityCheck™
RealityCheck includes innovative counterfeit deterrent and verification features that enable a security document to be authenticated electronically. There are a number of technologies that use special materials (taggants, fiber formations) that can be printed on a document or incorporated into the paper substrate.
A variety of unique authentication scanning devices are available to meet the varying technologies and appropriate needs of individual customers, ranging from basic hand-held or small "swipe" readers to ultra-sensitive high speed scanning devices which incorporate a microprocessor and can be retrofitted to existing high-speed reading devices.
The electronic verification of the presence of the feature and their security value have been affirmed in applications such as passport and currency, as well as by a variety of customers in private industry.
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