Security Design
Our in-house design team blends artistic vision with technical expertise to create high-resolution artwork for passports, ID cards, visas, and secure documents. Using advanced design software, we build intricate linework, custom illustrations, and covert details that serve as powerful defenses against counterfeiting, proving that strong security starts with exceptional design.
Intaglio Printing
For hundreds of years, intaglio has set the gold standard in secure printing. At BCA, we’ve modernized this heritage craft with advanced machinery, pairing timeless techniques with the latest technology.
High Security Features
Every stroke matters. Our designers craft microscopic details and raised textures that can be seen, felt, and trusted. The result: documents that combine elegance with protection, making counterfeiting and tampering nearly impossible.
Offset Printing
Offset printing is the backbone of modern secure documents. It offers crisp detail, vibrant color, and the ability to integrate subtle features that are invisible to the untrained eye. At BCA, we use this process not just for efficiency, but to add depth and layers of protection to every document we produce.
High-Security Features
Our offset presses enable techniques such as rainbow/iris printing, fine line patterns, and split fountains that shift seamlessly from one shade to another. These effects are visually striking, yet extremely difficult to reproduce—strengthening both the beauty and the security of your documents.
Digital
No two identities are the same; your documents should not be either. Digital printing technology enables us to personalize each piece with secure, high-resolution details tailored to the individual.
High-Security Features
We integrate variable text, photos, and serializations directly into the document, ensuring each one is unique, traceable, and resistant to forgery.
Silk Screen
Not all inks are created equal. Silkscreen allows us to apply advanced formulations that are both highly durable and highly secure, giving documents striking visual features that counterfeiters cannot easily mimic.
High-Security Features
Through this process, we integrate color-shifting inks, invisible fluorescent layers, and other specialty formulations that provide quick, intuitive ways to confirm authenticity.
Designs Generated by Proprietary Software
Our Secure Features
Intaglio Printing
We combine a centuries-old craft with modern technology to create finely detailed, tactile designs that are virtually impossible to counterfeit.
Optically Variable Devices
We integrate advanced iridescent elements into our printing, adding layers of security that are instantly recognizable and highly resistant to counterfeiting.
Semi-Covert Security Features
With a range of techniques available that delicately integrate hidden features, we can customize elements like UV dull paper, thermochromatic and reactive inks, hidden indicia and others.
Forensic Security Features
We create the high-level security features in identification credentials that can only be viewed in laboratory settings—including nanotext, covert security fibres, and DNA taggants.
Secure Personalization
Customized production methods maintain security through processes that integrate detailed features into individual products.
Secure Inks and Taggants
We use innovative methods to create micro-elements that are added to other security features and can only be detected with a laser.
Complex Lens Arrays
Through the use of proprietary methods using glass and plastic, we create highly-advanced components in secure documents and identification protection.
Track & Trace Technology
Our industry-leading methods of crafting micro-devices that hold large amounts of code are designed to meet international standards for global activity.
Optically Variable Inks
Our OVI™ technology is a unique security ink used in our Intaglio printing and Silkscreen printing processes that creates a print that shifts color when tilted toward a light source.
Products Made with Timeless Craftsmanship
Secure Paper
Secure Paper
We are taking vital records to the next level with our exclusive techniques used to produce government-issued documents, such as birth certificates and marriage licenses.
Passports, ETC cards, & Travel Documents
Passports & Travel Documents
Information is handled with care and printed with techniques that make citizen data accessible across borders while consistently maintaining protection.
Federal Stamps
Federal Stamps
Since the time our team first formed in 1979, we have been printing tax and postage stamps using highly-advanced technologies and techniques.