Efficiency of Printing Technologies of Graphically Protected Materials

This paper attempts to make a hierarchical assessment of graphic protection in orderto enhance its use. It was established that the most common types of approvedprotection are also the best known ones and that their implementation enhancesprotection efficiency on products which are often counterfeit. Printing offices, publishersand design authors will protect their high demand products which are subjectto counterfeiting by optimizing printing technology, implementation expensesand efficiency of the protection system. By means of a system of questioning anddata processing, we created a scale of values of protective graphic technologies,inks and graphic materials. A survey showed that a large number of examineesbelieves in the possibility of counterfeit ballot papers and a hypothesis was testedwhich proved that 95% of citizens think that protective graphic techniques shouldbe used to prevent the counterfeiting of ballot papers. We therefore recommendthe individualization of ballot papers and the implementation of invisible graphics.It has been proved that citizens would have more confidence in the democraticelections if guaranteed the protection of ballot papers, which would finally result inthe increased number of turnouts.