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Nicola Sudan

24 Sept. 2024

3 min read

QR Codes Are Not a Replacement for RFID Tags, Says Cannabis Track and Trace Provider

Florida-based Metrc has launched Retail ID™, a serialised QR code solution for enhancing cannabis supply chain transparency at retail level. Rather than replacing Metrc’s existing RFID tag system on cannabis plants and bulk packaging, the code is intended to complement it.

Technology & Systems

Nicola Sudan

1 Sept. 2024

1 min read

Tax Stamps that Talk Back at You

The Korea Minting, Security Printing and ID Card Operating Corp (KOMSCO) has developed a tax stamp in collaboration with VOICEYE, a 2D high-density barcode solution specialist, with a focus on critical global markets like tobacco, alcohol, and pharmaceuticals.

Technology & Systems

Nicola Sudan

1 Sept. 2024

1 min read

Authentix and ARMOR-IIMAK Launch Security Ink in Form of Thermal Transfer Ribbon

Authentix has announced an exclusive partnership with ARMOR-IIMAK, a global player in the thermal transfer ribbon printing industry, to provide brand owners and their authorised contract manufacturers with a new covert security ink available in thermal transfer ribbon format.

Technology & Systems

Nicola Sudan

1 Sept. 2024

2 min read

GCMD Partners with Authentix for Biofuel Supply Chain Trial

The Global Centre for Maritime Decarbonisation (GCMD) has completed a two-year pilot study aimed at ensuring supply chain integrity and fuel authenticity for drop-in green fuels (ie. renewable fuels made from biomass sources that can be blended with petroleum products).

Technology & Systems

Nicola Sudan

1 Sept. 2024

2 min read

Royal Mail Launches App to Detect Counterfeit Stamps

Following complaints over £5 fines being dished out to the recipients of letters and parcels suspected of carrying counterfeit postage stamps, the UK postal service, Royal Mail, has launched a scanner tool in its app that lets customers check if a stamp is counterfeit.

Technology & Systems

Chander S Jeena

26 Aug. 2024

1 min read

Authentix and ARMOR-IIMAK Launch Security Ink in Form of Thermal Transfer Ribbon

Authentix has announced an exclusive partnership with ARMOR- IIMAK, a global player in the thermal transfer ribbon printing industry, to provide brand owners and their authorised contract manufacturers with a new covert security ink available in thermal transfer ribbon format.

Technology & Systems

Zbigniew Sagan and Vincent Leyris

24 July 2024

6 min read

How to Protect Citizens Against Fraudulent QR Codes

By 2025, more than 100 million smartphone users in the US will use a QR code scanner on their mobile devices, compared to 70.6 million in 2020. But how can citizens be sure that what they are scanning is legitimate?

Technology & Systems

Chander S Jeena

10 July 2024

2 min read

Hitachi’s Holography Electron Microscope Attains Record Resolution

In collaboration with the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology and the National Institute for Materials Science, a research team, including Hitachi scientists, has developed image acquisition and defocusing correction techniques to observe atomic-scale magnetic fields using a Hitachi holographic electron microscope at a resolution of 0.47nm.

Technology & Systems

Chander S Jeena

10 July 2024

1 min read

Researchers Develop New Type of Persistent Luminescence Nanomaterial

A team of researchers from Western University, Canada, has developed a new type of persistent luminescence nanomaterial using the Canadian Light Source synchrotron (a type of circular particle accelerator).

Technology & Systems

Chander S Jeena

13 June 2024

2 min read

RTPs Join the Dots for Enhanced Authentication

A research team at the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science, China has devised an innovative method to prepare carbonised polymer nanodots capable of emitting multicolour ultralong room-temperature phosphorescence (RTP) ranging from blue to green. These materials demonstrate significant potential applications in anticounterfeiting and information encryption.

Technology & Systems

Chander S Jeena

13 June 2024

3 min read

Diametryx’s Innovative Colour Change Particles

At the Optical & Digital Document Security (ODDS) conference in April, Michael Natan, President of Diametryx Inc, presented this new company’s intriguing colour-change particles for use as an overt security feature.

Technology & Systems

Chander S Jeena

13 June 2024

2 min read

Digital Printing, Metallisation, Interactivity… All in One Pass

Xeikon, a provider of digital printing presses, has partnered with KURZ and SCRIBOS (part of the KURZ group) to offer a solution that enables digital label printers to combine variable metallic elements, serialised QR codes with embedded copy- protection patterns, and interactive features… all in a single printing pass.

Technology & Systems

Chander S Jeena

13 June 2024

2 min read

Smurfit Invests for Brand Protection and Tax Stamps

Smurfit Kappa Security Concepts (SKSC) has invested over €3 million in a brand new custom press (Perfect NT security printing press) from Rotatek.

Technology & Systems

Chander S Jeena

13 June 2024

4 min read

Suppliers Change Gear with RFID Growth

According to McKinsey, the global radio frequency identification (RFID) technology market will reach $97.5 billion by 2030, growing at a CAGR of 14.4% between 2022-2030.

Technology & Systems

Nicola Sudan

30 May 2024

2 min read

Digital Printing, Metallisation, Interactivity… All in One Pass

Xeikon, a provider of digital printing presses, has partnered with KURZ and SCRIBOS (part of the KURZ group) to offer a solution that enables digital label printers to combine variable metallic elements, serialised QR codes with embedded copy-protection patterns, and interactive features… all in a single printing pass.

Technology & Systems

Nicola Sudan

30 May 2024

3 min read

Diametryx’s Innovative Colour Change Particles

At the Optical & Digital Document Security™ (ODDS) conference in April, Michael Natan, President of Diametryx Inc, presented this new company’s intriguing colour-change particles for use as an overt security feature.

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Nicola Sudan

30 May 2024

2 min read

Labels that Go Straight on the Food Itself

A new labelling technology that prints a QR code directly onto food such as fruit has been developed by a team of researchers in South Korea, according to an announcement by the country’s Ministry of Science and ICT.

Technology & Systems

Nicola Sudan

29 April 2024

4 min read

So Many Features, So Little Space

While the banknote industry often laments the limited real estate available on a banknote, tax stamps are typically 10 times smaller than notes. Furthermore, most stamps are required to carry variable data as well as multilevel security features adapted to different users with different authentication capabilities.

Technology & Systems

Chander S Jeena

11 April 2024

3 min read

Holography News in Brief

This article explores recent developments around holography technology, from combining origination processes and using AI for hologram detection to developing novel methods for controlling light polarisation.

Technology & Systems

Nicola Sudan

2 April 2024

1 min read

Innovations in Tamper Proofing

A number of recent developments in tamper proof labels caught our attention, two of which are described in this article.

Technology & Systems

Latest News

QR Codes Are Not a Replacement for RFID Tags, Says Cannabis Track and Trace Provider

Tax Stamps that Talk Back at You

Authentix and ARMOR-IIMAK Launch Security Ink in Form of Thermal Transfer Ribbon

GCMD Partners with Authentix for Biofuel Supply Chain Trial

Royal Mail Launches App to Detect Counterfeit Stamps

Authentix and ARMOR-IIMAK Launch Security Ink in Form of Thermal Transfer Ribbon

How to Protect Citizens Against Fraudulent QR Codes

Hitachi’s Holography Electron Microscope Attains Record Resolution

Researchers Develop New Type of Persistent Luminescence Nanomaterial

RTPs Join the Dots for Enhanced Authentication

Diametryx’s Innovative Colour Change Particles

Digital Printing, Metallisation, Interactivity… All in One Pass

Smurfit Invests for Brand Protection and Tax Stamps

Suppliers Change Gear with RFID Growth

Digital Printing, Metallisation, Interactivity… All in One Pass

Diametryx’s Innovative Colour Change Particles

Labels that Go Straight on the Food Itself

So Many Features, So Little Space

Holography News in Brief

Innovations in Tamper Proofing

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