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The LaserCard Optical Memory Card |
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 Secure ID Document - Card Features
Card Structure
The LaserCard® optical memory card is constructed of multi-layer laminated polycarbonate, which is stronger and more durable than PVC, and results in a more cost effective, longer-life card. Attempts to separate the layers will destroy the card.
Security Artwork and Printing
Secure artwork designs are incorporated onto the LaserCard using industry-standard security printing and optical memory-specific micro imaging techniques.
• Counterfeit-resistant security artwork includes guilloche patterns, micro-line text and images, relief-line artwork and security raster images.
• All cardholder data, such as facial image, biometric images and templates, and demographics, are securely stored and cannot be fraudulently altered.
• The cardholder data can also be visibly and permanently etched onto the optical memory as an Embedded Hologram™ OVD (optically variable device).
• The digital file of the cardholder data can be interleaved within the Embedded Hologram OVD image for additional security and machine-assisted authentication.
• Text, barcodes and grayscale images can be sub-surface laser engraved. The personalization data is contained within the multi-layer polycarbonate structure of the LaserCard and is inaccessible to tamperers.
• Cardholder data, printed using a dye diffusion card printer, must match the personalized Embedded Hologram OVD image on the optical memory.
• Secure Personalization Technology The LaserCard optical memory card can be personalized with cardholder data, using a variety of methods for digital and visual recording. Unique among all card technologies, optical memory can be visually marked with cardholder data.
• Fine line micro images, resolved at 12,000 dpi, can be manufactured in the optical memory. Micro imaging provides 4 times higher resolution than security printing techniques and cannot be duplicated or simulated by photocopying, photography, or scanning.
• Specialty inks with optically variable properties can be applied to the card.
• Sub-surface and tactile surface printing and lasering techniques can be used to further protect the card against tampering. All the information on the optical side of the card is protected within the layers of polycarbonate. This means the optical memory, artwork printing, and laser engraving are sub-surface, which insures against tampering.
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