TECHNOLOGY AND SERVICES
Forward Optics extensive portfolio of eye-catching optical effect technologies can enhance your customers graphics and insure covert and/or overt anti-counterfeit labels and packaging. Our optical expertise and enrgaving capabilities offer our customers the finest optical engravings for Fresnel lenses, lenticular, retroreflective, and fly’s eye cast or embosed products. Our Expert Witness experience and knowledge of Intellectual Property law and manufacturing has helped multiple law firms to protect their client’s technical dominance.
TECHNOLOGIES
Exciting packaging technology available exclusively for our print partners
Secur3D™
Developed for the security and brand authentication markets, Secur3D™ is a patented technology that enables the formation of print or cast lens arrays and micro-imagery entirely within the printing press. Unlike traditional lenticular printing, Secur3D™ arrays can be produced in discrete zones, providing the advantage of clear graphics and windows outside effect areas. Incredible 4D visual effects can be produced on any clear substrate, whether offset, flexo, or gravure. Forward Optics can provide all the tools and know-how necessary to establish complete in-house capability.
MicroMotion™
MicroMotion™ is a proprietary print technology that allows for in-house production of “ultra fine lens arrays which control reflected light to create the illusion of motion.”
MicroMotion™ can be printed or formed onto any substrate, only requiring one extra print station to produce dramatic motion, color shifts, and depth effects that command shelf appeal with the added benefit of adding a strong brand protection feature. MicroMotion™ is a proven technology, used around the world by major brands for more than 20 years.
MLA Watermark
MLA Watermark is a unique patent pending technology that physically incorporates a covert watermark directly into the lens array material used to produce the visual effects. This technology is available in our MicroFlex™ films, Secur3D™, as well as custom lens array films. The watermark images can be seen overtly at oblique angles and in reflected light. The images can also be read with a cell phone camera with a custom app, and can incorporate almost unlimited covert features. The technology is ideal for secure government documents, tax stamps, or large-scale high-value consumer products.
SERVICES
Looking for new ways to protect valuable brands? Check out our options for safeguarding identities and deterring counterfeiting.
Ad Design and Prepress
Developing imagery for MicroFlex™ and Secur3D™ is a specialized and unique capability. Forward Optics has developed a network of Certified Service Bureaus with designers highly experienced in converting or creating designs for lens array imagery, along with capability to offer the ultra high resolution flexo plates required for the process. The Bureaus are also trained to offer our exclusive and proprietary Dynamic Guilloche imagery, which takes security printing to a higher-level.
Security Feature Development
The technical team at Forward Optics has developed custom optical security features for anti-counterfeit applications for decades, including the development of overt features used in today’s banknotes. If you are searching for new ways to protect high value or vulnerable brands, Forward Optics is your ideal development partner.
Custom MLA Film and Mold Production
Forward Optics can provide a wide variety of custom embossed or cast optical micro-structures on film including: lenticular and “fly’s-eye” lens arrays, prism arrays, fresnel, gratings, micro text, micro repeating features, retroreflective and light management structures. Our key competencies include seamless continuous arrays, deep pattern capability, and high and low volume production.
Where molds are required, Forward Optics can also engrave optical patterns onto cylinders, plates, or mold inserts, in overall patterns, or in discrete zones.
Custom Optical Engraving
Forward Optics provides optical ray tracings and lens design s for lenticular, fly’e eye, square packed, Fresnel, and retroreflective applications. Our optical engineers can design to your specifications and verify performance with Zemax ray tracings. Our engraving services can produce master tooling for flat roll to roll replication on your existing equipment and/or assist in the specification or acquisition of new equipment, including modifications to roll to roll production lines.
IP Assistance
Forward Optics has extensive product development experience resulting in over 30 US and foreign patents issued to multiple companies. Our team members have long been recognized as leading experts in the optical authentication and security print industries.
Services we can provide
- Patent Research, Development, Drafting, Drawing and Prosecution Support.
- Infringement Investigation and Support
- Expert Witness and Interference Proceedings
- Adversarial Analysis
