Exclusive agreement between Creo & Acucote for new security label printing stocks

27 May '05

4 min read

reverse-engineer the systems to create something that appears authentic to the general public and even to brand investigators. The strength of the Creo Traceless marking and sensing system is its forensic invisibility. At less than two parts per million, Creo Traceless taggants are optically and forensically invisible in label stocks, unless the brand investigator has a specific Creo reader. Creo manufactures readers for single-taggant or multiple-taggant scenarios. Copying or counterfeiting these product brand authentication labels will be nearly impossible, because fraudulent counterfeiters cannot even find the Creo taggants in the label materials using the most sensitive forensic trace methods. Creo authentication products include standard, exotic and custom taggants; reading devices to verify the presence of Creo forensically-invisible taggants and capture the taggant image in each unique item; and database tracking of individual items. “Creo Traceless systems can even go further using the pure randomness of taggant particle positioning to designate each item uniquely, like a fingerprint per item,” said Kevin Harrell, director of global business development for the new security and authentication business at Creo. “This 'taggant image signature' is the ultimate in product brand authentication. Imagine having every pharmaceutical, cosmetic, garment and apparel product uniquely identified, with the database accessible exclusively to the brand goods company. The taggant image

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