Pinball Wizard

Whilst Crane Currency is, or rather was, first and foremost a paper maker, it is also the developer of the micro-optics feature MOTION® and its derivatives for threads and, more recently, for surface-applied stripes.

These to date have been utilised in paper currency only, but at the Global Currency Forum in early May, the company introduced a new polymer house note – the Pinball Note – with a variant of MOTION for the substrate, namely a 10mm wide MOTION SURFACE® stripe overlaid over a window.

MOTION SURFACE stripes of this width typically have an array of over 3 million lenses, aligned horizontally over 3 million icons. For the Pinball note, this has enabled four different effects to be created that continue the theme of the note itself.