Authentication:
Better Safe than Sorry
Security features for proof of authenticity are divided into two categories:
- Overt features enable quick authentication by the customer or at the point of sale without requiring any particular tools or aids. Due to the risk of copying by professional counterfeiters, we recommend a combination of overt features with covert and digital technologies.
- Covert features today increasingly use technologies from the field of high-security printing. They provide reliable proof of authenticity which is helpful, for instance, in the case of customer complaints.
- Digital security features use computer-generated encodings as cleartext numbers, 2-D datamatrix codes or special noise patterns to enable authentications via Internet portals or mobile end devices.
All features can be individually designed and combined as desired or needed. This results in the creation of highly complex security labels that successfully curb counterfeiting activities.
The following is a selection of available technologies:
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