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Plastics, Packaging and the Environment

(Flexpack)

June 29, 2020, ... rigid plastics, as shown in the example below: As technologies and plastics have developed, these seven resin code identifiers are sometimes not enough to fully identify what a package is made from; ...

Plastics, Packaging and the Environment

(Flexography)

April 22, 2020, ... rigid plastics, as shown in the example below: As technologies and plastics have developed, these seven resin code identifiers are sometimes not enough to fully identify what a package is made from; ...

Drug Packaging | Holography Gets in on the Act

(Carton Box)

November 06, 2017, ... a unique product identification code on prescription drug units of sale and homogeneous cases distributed in the US. The chairman of the International Hologram Mfrs. Assn. argues that a product identifier ...

Durst Label Press Builds on Flagship Model

(News | New Products)

September 26, 2016, ... 25% due to a lower demand for ink per
running meter Industry inks for printing highly resistant labels and identifiers Low-migration inks for printing primary packaging in the pharmaceutical 
and grocery ...

Enterprise Labeling | Top 5 Trends in 2015

(Technical Reports)

May 20, 2015, ... over several years, UDI, which requires most medical devices distributed in the US to carry a unique device identifier, continues to play a significant role with labeling in this industry. This mandate, ...

Label PRomotion | Shock Value: Yea or Nay?

(Label/Tape)

January 21, 2014, ... more globally championed. For those wanting to spend the time, energy, and money to market specifically to a variety of sub-audiences, these “universal identifiers” can be common to all platforms. Label ...

RFID Tags | Help Brand Owners Combat Diversion

(Label/Tape)

October 22, 2012, ... as the grandparent, the tag on the case as the parent, and the tag on the actual product as the child. Each tag consists of a data identifier— “P” (pallet), “C” (case), and “B” (bottle)—followed by a serial ...

Neenah Paper Reports Authentication Label

(News | New Products)

September 15, 2012, ... the printer to handle the label registration process. Secure Authentication Labels may be printed with a unique identifier, such as QR, 2D, or alphanumeric code. This code is matched with the random embedded ...

Brand Security Innovations Technical Report: Tamper Evidence

(Print)

June 30, 2011, ... for nearly half a century, has played a key role in supply chain management, documenting a variety of data from unique product identifier to production location, batch number, and expiration date. The ...

Special Report: Covert Markers-Microscopic Markers

(Print)

June 30, 2010, ... the use of inks, pigments, flavors, and other molecular taggants used as physical-chemical identifiers (PCIDs) in immediate release film coatings. Most of the anti-counterfeiting technologies available ...

Label Meets NASA Standards

(Narrow Web)

March 31, 2010, ... part identifiers after being exposed to environmental elements of the low earth orbit environment for an extended time period. Coded specimens, including the tesa Secure 6973 PV3 laser-engraved label, ...

Label Meets NASA Standards

(Label/Tape)

March 31, 2010, ... (MISSE) by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). The experiment was designed to test the durability and readability of both human and machine-readable markings and part identifiers ...

Bar Code Creation Simplified

(New Products)

February 28, 2010, ... GS1 bar codes a four-step process. Newly added are GS1 Datamatrix and GS1 Databar, said to make it easy to create GS1 symbols composed of multiple application identifiers that conform to GS1 global standards. ...

Crime Stoppers

(Archive)

June 30, 2009, ... include “void” constructions, which unveil a hidden message on the label when tampering has occurred. Page 2 of 3 Security identifiers such as unique sequentially printed numbers, bar codes, and bank-note ...

Users Get Inside Track at EskoArtwork Conference

(News | New Products)

June 02, 2009, ... the tool units automatically through electronic identifiers. The XP has an Automatic Tool Leveling feature that calibrates the vertical operating level. A fully automatic load mechanism is said to handle ...

Creating e-Pedigrees

(Print)

December 31, 2008, ... number” is required for e-pedigree purposes. Such a unique product identifier, typically a two-dimensional (2D) DataMatrix bar code, can be essentially a digital “fingerprint,” assigned uniquely to a given ...

Printing Partnerships

(Special Reports)

June 30, 2008, ... which provides strong visual proof of package tampering. Security identifiers with a unique sequentially printed number, bar code, and the kind of security print that appears on bank notes — in small ...

Working Undercover

(Magazine)

June 30, 2007, ... has created a wide spectrum of opportunities to provide unique identifiers. They range from DNA and nano-taggants to infrared-readable metal and nylon “threads” and, of course, radio frequency identification ...

Brand Security & Authentication, Part 1

(Archive)

July 30, 2005, ... Using near-IR fluorophores, chemical taggants, or microtaggants (even DNA), state-of-the-art covert (invisible) product identifiers, accessible only via special scanners, also can be built into the label ...

Brand Security & Authentication, Part 2

(Archive)

July 30, 2005, ... added. The system reportedly is so secure that it cannot be reproduced, even by the manufacturer. This “bar code” acts as an invisible identifier for individual packages, bottles, or labels for tracking ...