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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 - September 2, 2024 midnight

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 - September 2, 2024 midnight

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 - September 2, 2024 midnight

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 - July 25, 2024 12:01 a.m.

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.

Free - May 31, 2024 midnight

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 - May 31, 2024 midnight

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 - May 31, 2024 midnight

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 - April 30, 2024 midnight