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A diploma means years of study, skill and achievement. The value of every legitimate graduate's accomplishment is diluted when such documents can actually be produced with a home printer. The responsibility for maintaining the security and value of university documents actually falls to security manufacturers who are capable of providing the most effective protection. However, not all manufacturers offer professional security document manufacturing. The very best security manufacturers possess specific characteristics that set them apart from the typical printer. Understanding these aspects of professionalism is critical for universities when choosing a security document manufacturer for their diploma certificates.
Independent Research and Development
The best security manufacturers, rather than purchasing generic security features from a third party, produce their own proprietary anti-counterfeiting techniques through extensive independent research and development efforts. They focus on producing unique and individual features that cannot easily be mimicked by counterfeiting technicians.
Yiko actually boasts independent scientific research capacity specifically focused on anti-counterfeiting technologies. Our staff actually includes experienced and skilled researchers dedicated to developing specific holographic effects, individualized watermarks, specialized UV fluorescence features, and more. When a university needs a specific watermark for its diploma certificate, Yiko can design and produce that custom feature and match it to its official seal, just as it can provide the custom holographic transfer label that incorporates a university’s founding year in microtext. Manufacturers that cannot perform their own research and development cannot offer this custommade level of protection to clients. They are forced to provide the same common security features that counterfeiters may be able to study and compromise.
Comprehensive Quality Management Systems
The volume of diploma certificates required in any given academic institution can span from hundreds to thousands or tens of thousands of certificates per year. The security features must be consistently applied in order to ensure the integrity of the document. Each diploma must have precisely applied watermark and hologram perfectly aligned with the printed text.
Yiko provides a full and scientific quality management system that will meticulously supervise all aspects of production for every certificate. From the raw paper material all the way to the hologram applied, each diploma certificate is consistently assessed according to rigorous quality guidelines. Our advanced and integrated production equipment ensures the watermarks are in the correct position on each certificate, while the holographic transfer labels are meticulously aligned to correspond to the printed design. UV fluorescence is actually equally applied with precision to be correctly visible under inspection. While our facility actually has a production capacity for 200,000 certificates per day and 80 million per year, we actually maintain this level of consistency throughout our large-scale operation. Professional security manufacturers actually know that this precision must be the standard for all documents produced.
Vertical Integration Across the Security Chain
Many security manufacturers specialize only in the production of one particular security feature or document, for example, one facility may specialize in the creation of security paper while another produces hologram stickers. A professional security document manufacturer utilizes its ability to combine several aspects of the security process in a vertically integrated manufacturing process.
Yiko operates a fully integrated production system for the anti-counterfeiting industry. This process provides diploma and degree certificates, institutional certificates, security letterhead, document paper and certificates of authenticity. Our product line also includes hologram stickers, holographic transfer labels, optically variable labels, fluorescent labels, tamper-evident labels, QR and barcode labels, security thread labels, foil stamping and embossed labels, and RFID labels. When a university wishes to maintain all security features of its diploma certificate at one manufacturer, a vertically integrated operation streamlines production and quality control and avoids potential conflicts or mismatches when dealing with multiple vendors.
High Technology at Accessible Cost
Professionalism does not actually necessarily translate to overly expensive products. Top quality security manufacturers utilize advanced technologies in the printing of their certificates in order to produce the highest possible quality security product at a reasonably affordable price, as many institutions can only spend so much money on their security features.
Yiko offers a clear business purpose, high tech, low cost, easy to recognize, arbitratable. This business principle enables us to provide cutting edge security features at an economical price. A university issuing many thousands of diplomas each year can afford to implement watermarks, UV fluorescent and holographic transfer labels as security features on every one of its certificates. Investment in continuously updated technology and innovative research has improved production efficiency, enabling us to pass significant savings on to our documents. Professional security document manufacturers understand that they will achieve more if they are able to deliver a high value product at an economical price.
Summary
Professional diploma security manufacturers are easily distinguished by specific characteristics. An established, independent research and development capacity indicates a producer that is capable of generating unique and individual security features tailored to client specifications. A quality management system ensures that all documents produced possess uniform, exactly placed security features for an enhanced level of security and trust. Vertically integrated allows universities to obtain the full range of security features from a single manufacturer, streamlining processing and communication. Furthermore, top notch security document manufacturers make high tech security features available at an affordable cost, enabling universities of all sizes to provide enhanced security to their important documents. Yiko meets each of these standards and is comprised of experienced scientific research, production, and management personnel, along with the implementation of modern and scientific manufacturing systems. Our commitment to efficient and responsible practice will enable your university to secure its reputation as well as the achievements of its graduates. Universities, when seeking a security document manufacturer that will maintain their university's reputation for many decades to come, will want to choose one with demonstrable and unquestionable professionalism.
