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# Security features

Also called report security features

Security features are the marks on a printed report that make it hard to copy. On a GIA report they are microprinting, security screens, watermarks, a two-dimensional barcode, a hologram and sheet numbering.

## In more detail

They protect the paper, not the link between paper and stone. Always check the stone itself against the report too.

## On a grading report

Printed into GIA's paper report. IGI says that its paper report has at least five security features.

## Related terms

- [Report Check](https://digitalgemology.com/learn/glossary/report-check): Report Check is GIA's online database. Enter a report number to see what GIA itself recorded; IGI's equivalent is Verify Your Report.
- [Report number](https://digitalgemology.com/learn/glossary/report-number): The report number is the unique number a lab gives a report. GIA registers it in its database, so anyone can look it up.
- [Inscription](https://digitalgemology.com/learn/glossary/inscription): An inscription is text that a laser writes on the girdle of a stone, too small to see without magnification. Most often it is the report number.

## Learn more

- [The ID section of a diamond report: number, shape and measurements](https://digitalgemology.com/learn/grading-reports/diamond-report-identity-section)

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