Security Tags

Invisible taggants
A variety of invisible taggants are available for secure media. These are engineered materials that do not exist in nature, so they can be very accurately verified. These materials have specific optical qualities that make them invisible to the naked eye, providing a covert layer of security that is difficult for counterfeiters to detect or reproduce while preserving the desirable appearance of the finished tag or label. Since the materials are invisible, they do not interfere with label readability, bar code scanning, or consumer appearance. These taggants resist heat and chemicals and can be read through top coats and other materials applied during the label making process. Information can often be printed on top of the taggant, so no changes to label size or format are required.

RACO offers a variety of invisible taggants with different detection and readability performance.

• Taggants that are visible under an inexpensive black light, allowing easy, low cost field verification throughout the supply chain.

• Taggants that can be machine authenticated and thus differentiated from easily counterfeited fluorescent materials used by more sophisticated criminal organizations.

• Hand-held verification devices allow taggants to be authenticated to determine, instantly and conclusively, wherever suspect goods are found. Some invisible taggants can even be detected through several layers of packaging material, so authenticity can be verified without opening the packaging.

• Invisible taggants can be manufactured directly into the paper or synthetic substrate, creating a low-cost but very difficult to counterfeit media.

Taggants can also be added to over varnish, ink, or a ribbon.

• A taggant can be added to a clear over varnish applied as part of the die-cutting process.

• Some taggants can be incorporated into the label adhesive for more covert applications.

• Taggants can be added to the ink used in any logo, artwork, or patterns preprinted on the label adding additional layers of security.

• In some cases, taggants can also be added to the ribbons, allowing verification of variable information printed on the label as well as verification of the label itself.

Adding taggants to over varnish, ink, or a ribbon has the added advantage that the way the taggant is applied to the media can be changed every year, every batch, or every label. This allows encoding additional information in the security process, such as place or date of manufacture, without changing field authentication procedures or equipment. Using a clear varnish, clear ink, or a clear ribbon to apply this variable information adds an additional covert layer of security.

Contact RACO Industries at 513-984-2101 or 800-446-1991 or at our email address at info@racoindustries.com to learn more about the above unique label and its applications. If you have a specific application and cannot find the solution you need a RACO sales rep will be glad to assist you.

This product should be pre-tested in the end-use conditions to insure that it meets the requirements of the specific application. Specification subject to change. Minimum order may be required, call for details.

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