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Bayer Advances Printable Polycarbonate

by Marc S. Reisch
August 3, 2009 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 87, Issue 31

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Credit: Bayer
Credit: Bayer

Using laser engraving with polycarbonate inks, Bayer MaterialScience and its partner, the Federal German Printing Office, have developed color photo identification cards and passports made of polycarbonate film. Until now, similar laser images were possible only in black and white. The printed laminated film process, known as Innosec Fusion, forms a single piece of polycarbonate that is difficult to counterfeit.

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