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INCREASED SECURITY WITH MAGICARD
Holokote and Holopatch to protect your cards
10th June 2002
Holokote Protection
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Specify Custom HolokoteTM Logo
Introduction
The Magicard Rio and Tango printer family are shipped with a built-in Holokote "Ultra Secure" watermark which provides full protection against tampering, but only limited protection against card counterfeiting.
For maximum protection against counterfeiting a Holokote Custom Key should be used, and the following sections show you how to specify your own unique security logo.
For enhanced visibility of the Holokote feature, using our special Holopatch cardstock, and selecting this feature via the driver can highlight one of the logos.
We recommend that you choose our Standard Holopatch cards or Stickies, which will highlight the logo in position 6 (or 19 if you reverse the card).
However, if you really need a custom HolopatchÅ position, then you need to specify this using the Custom HolopatchÅ form below. This form can also be used to specify the HolopatchÅ position to be used for customer supplied prox cards.
Click here for more details of the HolokoteTM and HolopatchTM Security features.
Magicard HolokoteTM Custom Key Setup
To utilize the custom HolokoteÅ logo, the printer requires an appropriately programmed Custom Key to be inserted into the dedicated socket on the printer.
A charge is applied for new Custom Key artwork set-ups. We will keep the custom artwork order on file for a minimum of three years to allow authorised customers to reorder additional or replacement keys through their dealer with no artwork set-up fees applied.
To order a new custom logo or to re-use a previously set up logo, the HolokoteTM Custom Key Programming Data form must be submitted to your dealer with your order.
Logo data must fit within a 158 pixel by 149 pixel "tile". This data can be repeated (tiled) across the entire card-face (recommended), or it can be used only once and positioned on the face of the card where needed.
The Custom Key logo must be specified as "portrait" or "landscape". This is because the Custom Key logo can only be inverted (180 degree rotation) in the driver. It cannot be rotated through 90 degrees.
Logo data can be submitted in two ways:
* (Preferred) In digital format submitted by email, or on a floppy disk. Data must be PC readable and can be in BMP, Targa, GIF, JPEG, or TIF formats.
* Camera-ready artwork submitted by mail: will be scanned and used as received.
Logo Design
BOLD-SIMPLE-UNCLUTTERED DESIGNS give the best visually acceptable results! Details in complicated designs with fine lines and/or small text cannot be clearly reproduced.
Do not use grey scale, long thin lines of text, or text exceeding 6 characters per line.
The built-in Ultra Secure logo is a good example of a simple yet complete and effective design.
By Ed Heyden
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