Agfa has announced details of its Fortuna 9 design software for high-end security printing, which will come on line in the next few months.
The software has updated tools and new security modules. The tools included in the new release focus on productivity and ease of use for high-security printing designs for passports, identity documents, high-security cards, tax stamps, security documents and lottery tickets.
Agfa says Fortuna 9 offers a highly secure file format. Taking a modular approach, the software allows customers to choose various security features out of several that fit the needs of the security designer or printer. It employs new methods to create security designs in a more automated way, which Agfa says will help security designers and printers achieve time savings and added quality. These new methods focus on outputting high-quality and complex images to help deter and stop counterfeiters.
Andy Grant, global head of software at Agfa Graphics, says, “All of these elements are important to our customers and potential customers as there is a need to create security designs more quickly than ever before. It is critically important for security design tools to stay ahead of the counterfeiters that are out there.
Agfa adds that it has based Fortuna 9 on more than 20 years’ experience in high-security design. Fortuna 9 includes a new font management tool with support for open type fonts and true type fonts. Its smart selection option now allows operates to select specific objects more easily and the software adds improved handling for high-resolution images and raw text.
Grant concludes, “Agfa continues to research new security design tools to reduce threats to security and at the same time adapt the software to increase the design productivity. We are currently also developing very particular software and features for the high-security market and for the general security applications.”
