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  • noun Microprint.
  • noun The generation of microprint.

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Examples

  • All this decoration, though, has somehow never gotten enough ahead of counterfeiters, so our currency has been redesigned to incorporate new features like microprinting, colors, watermarks, and security threads.

    Currency Exchange 2009

  • All this decoration, though, has somehow never gotten enough ahead of counterfeiters, so our currency has been redesigned to incorporate new features like microprinting, colors, watermarks, and security threads.

    Currency Exchange 2009

  • SULLIVAN: Harrison says since 9/11, most states have added security features like holograms, data threads and microprinting.

    Money To Run, But No Skills To Hide 2009

  • The fiver was one of the first bills to be re-designed back in the 1990s, but this re-design incorporates the various anti-counterfeiting measures that have been instituted in subsequent bill designs including colored ink, microprinting, and watermarking.

    Things I Have Learned So Far Today 2008

  • Advanced holograms layer deformed surfaces and add things like numbers and microprinting to the film, but the end result is still a surface that can be copied.

    Fake Holograms a 3-D Crime Wave 2007

  • Besides the ribbon and the inkwell it has all of the old security features, like the portrait watermark, microprinting and color-shifting numbers.

    Original Signal - Transmitting Gadgets 2010

  • • Look for specialty features (except in $1 and $2 bills), including embedded plastic strips, color-shifting ink, watermarks and microprinting.

    Island Packet: Home 2010

  • Besides the ribbon and the inkwell it has all of the old security features, like the portrait watermark, microprinting and color-shifting numbers.

    Gizmodo matt buchanan 2010

  • Besides the ribbon and the inkwell it has all of the old security features, like the portrait watermark, microprinting and color-shifting numbers.

    Gizmodo matt buchanan 2010

  • Besides the ribbon and the inkwell it has all of the old security features, like the portrait watermark, microprinting and color-shifting numbers.

    Original Signal - Transmitting Gadgets 2010

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  • In stamp collecting, the term describing extremely small letters or numbers added to the designs of selected stamps as a security feature. In most cases, 8x magnification or greater is needed to read microprinting.

    August 27, 2008