Spectral luminescent magnifiers are intended for advanced authenticity verification of passports, ID cards and other travel documents, visa stamps and seals, including but not limited to entry permits, banknotes, driving licences, vehicle registration certificates and other vehicle related documents, signatures and handwriting fragments, revenue and special stamps, securities and other documents with security features.

Regula 40X7 are compact devices designed in plastic body in the form of a computer mouse. The magnifiers are used in conjunction with Regula 4007, 4105, 4305M/MH.

Functionality

• Examinations on different levels

  • protection of the document basis

    • security fibers, planchettes, security threads, holograms, foil stamping, pole feature, transparent varnish coating, etc.

  • printing methods

    • intaglio: texts, guilloche frames, rosettes and vignettes, microprinting, latent images and moire patterns, signs for the visually impaired, blind embossing, colour shifting ink, including OVI with embossing and latent images, etc.

    • letterpress: serial numbers, texts, barcodes, etc.

    • offset printing including Orlov and rainbow printing: texts, microprinting, moire patterns, background and anti-copy patterns, etc.

    • screen printing: security features with optically variable effects, etc.

    • perforation

  • physico-chemical protection

    • anti-Stokes luminescence

    • UV luminescence

    • IR luminescence

  • complex security features

    • security features with IR-metameric ink

    • special polymer coating of security laminates

    • metallized coating

    • laser engraving

• Additional examination of

  • fragments of document images depending on the degree of absorption or reflection of IR light

  • document alterations such as erasure, etching etc.

  • traces of signature forgery

  • extraneous lines (do not originally belong to the examined object) that are performed with IR opaque inks

  • blurred, crossed out entries, texts and images

  • document mechanical defects such as cuts, tears, folds, etc.

Application

• Forensic departments

• Court expertise

• Financial institutions

• Border control/immigration services

• Customs authorities

• Law-enforcement agencies

• Other agencies and organizations authorized to check documents