ghost image

English translation: a form of watermark

21:54 Dec 20, 2008

English language (monolingual) [PRO]
Bus/Financial - Printing & Publishing / printed security features

English term or phrase: ghost image

Term appears in the following list of security features applied to printed material such as checks, banknotes, and identification documents to prevent forgery:
"guilloches, rainbow printing, OVI, watermark, ghost image, holograms, OVD"

Alaa Zeineldine KudoZ activity Questions: 228 (none open) (28 closed without grading) Answers: 1145 Egypt
Local time: 18:35

Selected answer:a form of watermark

Explanation:
It is a form of watermark, displaying features which should match other features of the note.

Selected response from:

Jack Doughty
United Kingdom
Local time: 16:35

Grading comment

Thank you, Jack.
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer

SUMMARY OF ALL EXPLANATIONS PROVIDED

4 +2

a form of watermark

Jack Doughty

5 +1

الصورة الشـبحية

Fuad Yahya

image made by ultraviolet marking pen

Alexandra Taggart

Answers

42 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +2

a form of watermark

Explanation:
It is a form of watermark, displaying features which should match other features of the note.

Reference: http://www.bankofcanada.ca/en/banknotes/counterfeit/security...

Jack Doughty
United Kingdom
Local time: 16:35
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 8

Grading comment

Thank you, Jack.

25 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +1

الصورة الشـبحية

Explanation:
This is also my own translation.

This kind of printing is also called secondary ghost or secondary shadow printing.

http://consilium.europa.eu/prado/EN/glossaryPopup.html#_107_...

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Note added at 48 mins (2008-12-20 22:43:24 GMT)
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I apologize. I thought I checked the language pair in the other questions you posted today, so I did not check the language pair in this question.

Fuad Yahya
Native speaker of:

Arabic,

English

Notes to answerer

Asker: You have, unintentionally or shall we say serendipitously, short circuited me to the two answers I needed. You did not realize that this question was "English only" as I needed a description of the feature before figuring out the translation. I now have an explanation and the correct translation; it turns out that your translation is also used by Al-Khatib.

13 hrs confidence:

image made by ultraviolet marking pen

Explanation:
It could be a signature, could be any sign made by ultraviolet marking pen.It is possible to see only when ultraviolet light is applied.

Alexandra Taggart
Russian Federation
Local time: 18:35
Native speaker of:

English,

Russian

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