Xerox Develops MicroText to Prevent Forging

Xerox Corp. has developed a new digital printing font, called MicroText, designed to make it difficult for valuable documents to be forged. Microprinting is developed by Xerox to make it easier for a recipient to tell if bank documents and personal identification papers such as birth certificates, or other printed documents are authentic.

Reiner Eschbach, a research fellow in the Xerox Innovation Group said, “Microprinting variable information makes individualized documents whether they are birth certificates or driver’s licenses or pay checks or transcripts — even more time-consuming to replicate. Adding that extra layer of security is a barrier to counterfeiters and makes the document more secure.”

While microscopic words are already hidden in the design of credit cards, checks and currency as a deterrent to counterfeiting, Xerox claims that its innovation carries microprinting to the next level by individualizing the tiny letters and numbers. The new specialty font was unveiled in the new Xerox FreeFlow Variable Information Suite 5.0, a software that Xerox sells to commercial printers that produce personalized documents.

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