Ribbon Impression

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Daisy Wheel

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FICN

Fake Indian Currency Notes. Counterfeiting and trafficking attracts UAPA 1967 Sections 15 to 17 (as a terrorist act when high-quality and large-scale)...

Golf Ball (IBM Selectric)

Spherical typeball developed by IBM in 1961; rotates and tilts to bring the chosen character to the print position. Class link to...

Intaglio Printing

A high-pressure printing process in which ink is forced into engraved recesses in a steel plate and transferred to paper, producing a...

Machine Identification Code (MIC)

A pattern of tiny yellow dots (or equivalent steganographic marks) embedded in the output of many colour laser printers, encoding the printer...

Optically Variable Ink (OVI)

An ink containing thin-film interference flakes (metal + dielectric layers, manufactured by SICPA and others) that produce a visible colour shift with...

Security Thread

A strip of metallised biaxially-oriented PET film embedded in the paper substrate, alternating between visible (windowed) and embedded segments. May carry magnetic...

Typeface

The design of the printed character (shape of serifs, slant, proportions). Class characteristic of a typewriter model or font family.

Watermark

A pattern formed in paper during manufacture by localised fibre-density variation on the Fourdrinier wire; visible in transmitted light as a lighter...

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• Typescripts, Printed Matter, Currency and Mechanical ImpressionsInked impression made through a fabric or carbon-film ribbon on a typewriter. Carbon-film ribbons yield sharper, single-use impressions that allow text recover...