Text: Authenticity-bearing practicesAuthenticity can be conveyed through specific physical components produced with special materials, complex industrial processes and expensive machinery not available to the general public: Security papers and polymers,

Authenticity-bearing practices

Authenticity can be conveyed through specific physical components produced with special materials, complex industrial processes and expensive machinery not available to the general public: Security papers and polymers, holograms, embossing, watermarks, special inks and resins (white ink, UV stamps) and mechanical processes like micro-printing, see-through elements and embed metal bands. This act as anti-counterfeit measures that prevent unlawful reproduction