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WHY WE NEEd
sECURITY PRINTING?
Text by: Nur Amira Najiha Binti Mohamad Azlan
Have u ever wish you could print the money and spent lavishly on your own without thinking any problem? Yes! you are not alone, me too but I am sorry, I have to stop you there before you start to have teary eyes. The truth is a bit bitter, Banknote printing cannot be done at home but have u ever wonder why? How does the counterfeit can get caught?. There is so many attempt from irresponsible group of person to counterfeit the money, but end of the result? They fail! Here I tell you why.
Do you know that in our banknotes there is a lot of security printing in there? And what is actually a security printing? In the field of the printing industry, there is also a part where its called as security printing which is its deals with the printing product such as banknotes, cheques or passports that contain a lot of confidential information. It is easy for us to detect the counterfeit money because in one banknotes there is security that differentiate between the real and fake money . Security printing is very important in every confidential document. But HOW? Okay look, take out your security products such as banknotes or certificate and lets do some investigation. We are going to be Sherlock holmes now.
Lets see in our banknotes. If you look at your banknotes closely, you could see there is a use of extremely small text which you need to use microscope
or magnifying glass, when you put under the light, you could see some hidden images and etc. All of that was included in security printing. The security in product is not only on its substrate but also in the process of it.
In security printings, it also used for prevent any changes from original document. For example, like Academic Certificate. There is various of cases that people are faking their own Doctorate Certificate. This is very dangerous that could bring so many negative effect. This is why Security Printing is important in confidential document. There are severals technique or security that usually applied on the security product such as special papers that they used, watermarks, special inks, invisible inks, rainbow printing, holograms, elaborate engravings such as guilloches, microtext, raised print, security thread and see-through window.
Remember ! If you noticed that your banknotes is a bit different from other banknotes. Do not panic, you can report it to the police. Other than that, Lack of security protection can risk you to expose to others about our information. Our identity card number should not give to other people easily. Because insife of the card, there is so many of our information. The forged documents become one of the scary challenges that facing the world. Why scary? Because it can manipulate a lot of human and loss.
THE IMPACT OF TECHNOLOGICAL dEVELOPMENT ON BOOK PUBLIsHING INdUsTRY IN MALAYsIA
Text by: Edrina Syazlina Binti Ahmad Badri Photo by: Internet
Technological developments over the past few decades have greatly changed the environment of the book publishing industry. From the format of content, right down to the production process of the book, which involves editing, design, printing and distribution, almost all of them have evolved into computer and digital. The existence of the e-book as an example, has led to the reading process, purchase and storage of books easier. As a result, in some developed countries, reading through e-books has increased and the existence of electronic devices such as smartphones and specialized devices for reading also has also greatly influenced one’s desire to read.
In today’s digital era, media content is no longer tied to just one form of a particular format.
Media content can exist in many forms, including in digital format that can be distributed online. With the advancement of technology, today, e-books have been around with printed books as an alternative to readers in the market. For publishers, in theory, the existence of e-books is seen as an advantage to them as some costs such as the costs associated with printing, storage capacity, including distribution costs is no longer need to be considered. “It is with a heavy heart that MPH 1 Utama bids you all GOODBYE. THANK YOU for your continuous and loyal support, and for allowing us to be of service to you for these past 15 years. We hope to have your continued patronage and to continue to assist you at our newly-revamped online site.”
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