SECURE PROPERTY TITLE

This page is aimed at professionals who produce property titles and deeds: notarial offices, land registry services, local authorities and government bodies. If you are looking for a copy of the title to your own home, it is not obtained from a printer: the request goes to the land registration service, or to the notary who received the deed.

Why secure a property title

A property title attests to a right over an asset. That is precisely what makes it a target: an altered copy can be used to build a file, obtain financing or claim an asset. The document circulates, it is photocopied, scanned, forwarded. Every uncontrolled copy is an opportunity for forgery.

Securing the substrate does not replace the legal value of the deed. It adds something the law does not give: the ability to check physically, in seconds and without expertise, that the original is the one in front of you.

Processes suited to this type of document

A title is a long document, often multi-page, kept for decades. That shapes the choices.

The paper first. A secure paper with a watermark in the pulp and fibres reactive to ultraviolet. The watermark shows against the light and does not survive photocopying. The paper can also be made solvent-reactive, so that any attempt to erase an entry leaves an indelible stain.

A printed background. A guilloche background, combined where needed with microtext repeating the name of the issuing body. The guilloche breaks up as soon as it is reproduced, the microtext disappears on scanning.

Unique numbering per copy. It links the paper document to the issuer’s register and makes every copy traceable.

A physical marking where the level of requirement calls for it: personalised hologram, embossing in relief, or holographic film on the cover page.

What we need in order to quote

Format and page count, annual volume, the personalisation required (coat of arms, mentions, logo), the printing method at your end if the document is completed after delivery, and the level of checking expected: by eye, under lamp, or by reading a number. A proof is submitted to you before any production run.

A property title commits a right over time. It is protected by combining a secure substrate, printing that is hard to reproduce, and a marking traceable copy by copy.

The full range of processes is presented on secured documents. Related pages: secure official document and secure A4 paper.