US Creo Launches Unique New Technology for Stealth Protection

With the rapid development of the world commodity economy, the packaged goods market has flourished. At the same time, the phenomenon of counterfeit and shoddy goods flooding the market has become a worldwide problem that needs to be solved. According to statistics, the global industrial sector needs to spend nearly US$450 billion each year to combat counterfeit goods. The use of counterfeit and genuine inferior goods has severely damaged the image of high-quality brand-name goods. At the same time, it has also caused huge economic and spiritual losses for consumers, businesses and production enterprises.

To this end, packaged goods manufacturing companies such as pharmaceutical production companies, cosmetics production companies, etc., tried to use high technology and special materials to reproduce complex information on logos, and continuously increase the difficulty of counterfeiting, and make anti-counterfeit labels in individual product packaging. To prevent counterfeiting. Common anti-counterfeiting technologies include laser holography, fluorescent materials, watermark paper, anti-counterfeiting ink, gravure printing technology, security line technology, bar code technology, magnetic code anti-counterfeit technology, security code anti-counterfeiting technology, information security (network security) and so on. However, the anti-counterfeit labels made using such anti-counterfeiting technologies are either easily counterfeited or uncontrollable by the counterfeiters, or they are too weak to accept because of excessive reliance on advanced equipment and high production costs. Therefore, research and development of anti-counterfeiting technologies and anti-counterfeit facilities that are safe, reliable, practical, and effective have become a hot spot in the market. This article focuses on a new type of high-tech stealth anti-counterfeiting technology recently researched and developed by Creo Inc., a subsidiary of Kodak Corporation. This technology is characterized by high technology, high reliability, low cost, easy identification, and non-replica.

CREO, a subsidiary of Kodak Company, has recently successfully developed a new type of invisible anti-counterfeiting identification and reading system. The system can not only provide very reliable identification of various brand-name goods, but also widely applicable to the general low, medium and high-grade goods and ticket price security, such as medicine, cosmetics, high-grade cigarettes, brand-name drinks, various types of transport packaging And the security of all important items such as passports, bank notes and bank notes.

The core of this high-tech stealth anti-counterfeit technology is mainly embodied in a high-tech special material called CREO “taggants”. This high-tech special material is highly concentrated and becomes a small particle that is added to the security logo or product. When the added amount is less than 2 parts per million, the particles of this special material are invisible, so the Anti-Counterfeiting Label made by adding such special material particles is a truly invisible anti-counterfeit label. This kind of anti-counterfeiting mark can be set on the outer package of the product, or it can be set on a certain part of a single product, or it can be set in the raw material, and it can achieve the purpose of anti-counterfeiting.

CREO's newly developed high-tech marker particles for stealthy anti-counterfeiting technology can be added to the raw materials used to make labels, and can also be added to printing inks, pulp, paints, color glazes and other various raw and auxiliary materials. , To achieve more forms and more ways to prevent forgery.

This invisible "taggants" can only be read with the CREO reader. Creo's anti-counterfeit system uses a unique particle space relationship technology to set a unique particle space relationship identification map for each item, and gives its unique password "identity card" (ie, password ID), which will then be set. The unique and unique identity code of each product is stored in the mobile identity database. Mobile databases can retrieve, catalogue, and compare billions of "ID" password characters in one thousandth of a second.

This new high-tech stealth anti-counterfeiting technology is superior to anti-counterfeiting technologies such as barcodes, DNA, coded indicators, magnetic ink character recognition, magnetic inks, machine-readable characters, and radio frequency identification, and is far lower in cost than the basis of these anti-counterfeiting systems. It can provide more reliable anti-counterfeiting features.

For ease of use, CREO readers are designed in three styles. The first is a hand-held style. The second is a concealed use. It is designed in the shape of a pen. The outer dimensions are exactly the same as those of a normal pen. The third type is integrated. With high-speed integral inspection and resolution function, it can inspect and read 100 passwords per second.

CREO's high-tech stealth technology is extremely versatile. For example, a unique CREO invisible logo is placed on the inspection sheet of each packaged goods. When the company or the merchant purchases the goods, the purchaser can use the CREO inspection to perform the system inspection.

Reprinted from: China Packaging News