![]() ![]() Still, it is too early to say that the days of guilloche designs are over. They can still be used to prevent the counterfeiting of products that do not require the highest level of security (i.e. theater tickets, diplomas or gift certificates). Or, they can just be used to decorate and add some aesthetic value to a product giving the money-like look and value.Įxcentro was originally started in the early 90's as a solution for the emerging Russian security printing market. New promising economy situations asked for a simple, yet not very expensive solution that runs on an industry standard graphic arts platform and can produce the sort of patterns similar to what could be done on mechanical guilloche devices employed by government banknote printing plants. Since then it went through several major updates and features overhaulsĮach document in Excentro has three distinct areas to display: Preview, Structure and Layers. Preview and Layers are similar to the windows of other graphic design applications: Preview displays guilloche graphics with the magnifications specified, Layers shows back-to-front order of paths and allows the designer to arrange which objects are below or above. The Structure area is the key highlight of Excentro. It illustrates the process of guilloche construction with graphic objects presented as interconnected bases and elements. With Excentro you can create all popular kind of guilloches: backgrounds, bands, frames, rosettes. The underlying principle is similar to that of mechanical guilloche machines from the past and is based on the movement of drawing an object over a path created in a similar way in previous steps. Using Excentro requires some hands-on learning and browsing through the user guide and other reference materials. After becoming familiar with Excentro you will find it quite easy and even fun to work withĮxcentro, or the full application version, is geared to professional graphic artists who make designs for security papers, certificates, packaging or even plastic cards. This version has all the features mentioned above. ![]()
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