2. Establishment: 1876
Annual Sales : USD 17B / JPY 1.5T
Employees: >39,000
Clients: >30,000 global
Head Quarters: Tokyo, Japan
Group Formation: 155 Subsidiaries + 13 Affiliates
Sales Offices: 48 in Japan + 21 outside Japan
Factories: 58 in Japan + 10 outside Japan
(Year ended March, 2012, 1USD=82JPY)
Corporate Profile
3. 1946 started issuing Japanese banknote (to1949)
1949 started issuing stock certificate
1967 started manufacturing plastic card
1972 started R&D of holographic technology
1982 introduced embossed hologram
1983 developed re-writable IC card
1985 developed transfer-foil embossed hologram
1986 developed transparent embossed hologram
1993 started R&D of Lippmann hologram
1998 developed full-color Lippmann hologram
2003 developed 3D computer generated hologram
2007 introduced Lippmann type holographic
“Stereogram”
Milestones in security printing
5. World's First Lippmann Hologram
Transfer Foil for Passports
World's First Lippmann Holographic
Window Thread Paper for Valuable Documents
World's First Lippmann Hologram
Embedded in Polycarbonate Alloy Cards
High Security Application of LippmannHologram New Application
11. Equipments and materials are specially developed by DNP
Its sophisticated origination process contributes to maintain the security level high
Thanks to its distinctive visual effects, no tool is needed for authentication
*covert security elements can also be added if requested (micro texts, laser reconstruction images)
Lippmann Hologram
See the next page for examples
Heat Transferable Lippmann hologram foils are only available from DNP
12. Lippmann Hologram Visual effects
3D Cube 3D image flipping Transparent
Moving effect (horizontal direction only)
Copper flashing text
(only become visible at specific angle)
On-Off (completely disappears at certain angles)
Together with its transparency
and On-Off feature, printed
information becomes clearly
visible when hologram is Off.
Lens reflection
13. Text changes when
You tilt the hologram
“DNP ”
“GENUINE
”
●Before hologram
implementation
Customer: A battery manufacturer
Product: Rechargeable battery
Area: Worldwide
Hologram: Label type
●After hologram
implementation
Market share in
Middle/South American market
Fake: 80%
Genuine: 80%
* 20% products are sold with no hologram
label.
DNP
Application Example: Sony
17. A1294G6S
DNP
GX23D96I
Reading the ID number
Each consumer can
authenticate the products
by entering the ID numbers
on the web site
Consumer
Brand Owner
A1294G6S
GX23D96I
Lippmann Hologram Heat-transfer foil
A1294G6S
GX23D96I
A1294G6S
GX23D96I
【Brand Owner】 【Trader】 【Shop】
OK!
(Genuine
Product)
Generate ID Number Print the ID number
Traceability
System
Authentication
System
Security
Holograms
Security Combination