Smuggling

The illegal transportation of objects, substances, information or people across an international border, in violation of applicable laws or other regulations, often to avoid taxation.

Sheet-fed printing

A printing press that requires sheets (as opposed to continuous rolls or webs) to be fed into the press prior to printing.

Serialisation

The application of a unique identifier to each unit in a lot or batch. The identifiers are numbers but might be printed as alphanumerics or barcodes or might be embedded in a chip activated by radio frequency (RFID). The numbers may be sequential or randomly...

Semi-covert security feature

Also known as Level 2 security features, semi-covert features require simple, sometimes commercially available tools to view them, such as ultraviolet (UV) lights, polarising filters, magnifiers and lenses. The examiner needs to know where the features are and how to...