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Many of you are aware that 2D barcodes--which look like waffles--are becoming ubiquitous for location-based services, mobile commerce, and increasingly point-of-sale and track and trace applications. Did you know that there are many more you cannot see? They're covert 2D barcodes. And the master...
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My previous post was a link to the excellent In-Pharma Technologist blog edited by Nick Taylor. Nick solicited a posting from me back in April, but I could not find it on In-Pharma, so given a 1/2 year grace period, I think its time to post here: Variable Data Printing and Improved Pharma Product Protection...
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10-14-2009
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Filed under: Counterfeiting, security printing, security, VDP, Track and Trace, authentication, SVDP, mass serialization, image forensics, steganography, counterfeit
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If there is no rest for the wicked, then I have been very evil these past two weeks indeed. But, I hope some of the findings are wickedly cool. This post is for the paper on new findings in security printing and imaging, and my co-authors are that talented trio of Guy Adams, Jason Aronoff and Margaret...
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Printing and scanning change what you intended to print. This matters in variable data security printing, since there is information encoded there. My friend and colleague Marie Vans explores this issue in another NIP25 paper posted here: http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/2009/HPL-2009-318.html The approach...
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It's September. The month when most people's gas bills hit rock bottom. Kids are back in school, harvest is still just sweat and fury in the future. Closed are the pools, open are the schools, and life is good. Too good. So, those wonderful conference organizers have nothing better to do than...
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IMI’s 6th Annual Security Printing Conference is being held on November 16-18, 2009 at the Sheraton Baltimore City Center Hotel in Baltimore, Maryland, as noted in an earlier blog. Al Keene has sent me the conference brochure (please see attachment below). A number of my colleagues and friends...
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Today is the middle day of the 3-day DocEng 2009 ACM Symposium (not including the Workshop held before the Symposium, which was on document versioning). The website is http://doceng09.cs.unibw.de/ , and the program is available at http://doceng09.cs.unibw.de/download/program.pdf . Please contact me on...
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09-17-2009
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Filed under: security printing, security, DocEng, document engineering, ACM, color barcodes, Color tiles, ACM DocEng, DocEng 2009, mobile barcodes, color bar codes, Munich, documents, Oktoberfest, Lederhosen
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IMI’s 6 th Annual Security Printing Conference is being held on November 16-18, 2009 at the Sheraton Baltimore City Center Hotel in Baltimore , Maryland. According to the conference organizer, Al Keene, " The unique annual conference addresses the challenges and opportunities facing the digital...
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Heading to Munich for Oktoberfest? Then why not arrive a little early and join an eclectic and sociable (yes, sociable!) group of document experts for ACM DocEng 2009. Details on how to get there (the conference, that is--I presume you can find Munich) and on the, in my opinion, excellent program ( http...
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Reconnaissance International's 5th Global Forum on Pharmaceutical Anti-Counterfeiting is being held in Miami 24-26 February 2010. Details on the event, including submitting a paper and information on the sponsors, is available at: http://www.regonline.co.uk/builder/site/default.aspx?EventID=751954...
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Do you get a product from a trusted brand that just doesn't work right? Chances are pretty decent that your brand has failed to keep counterfeits out of its supply chain. Should you still trust your brand? Hard to tell--surely the brand shares some of the culpability for letting the counterfeits...
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Continuing a reinterpretation of Robert Greene’s 1998 landmark, “The 48 Laws of Power”, I turn his Law #4 sideways (applying the law to the fighting of counterfeiting and other forms of fraud) and then turn it upside down (using the laws to create better businesses). Given the definition...
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07-22-2009
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Filed under: variable data printing, security printing, deterrents, anti-counterfeiting, security, brand protection, VDP, counterfeit, 48 Laws of Power, Robert Greene, Coriolanus, Marcel Duchamp, caloric restriction, Peter Sellers, Louis XIV
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The FDA is advocating the addition of chemicals to pharmaceuticals to improve the identification of counterfeits. http://www.in-pharmatechnologist.com/Industry-Drivers/FDA-advocates-food-pigments-and-flavours-to-combat-counterfeits/?c=JiBz%2FX6W897ybeGc6YCjow%3D%3D&utm_source=newsletter_daily&utm_medium...
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StevenSimske
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07-16-2009
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Filed under: security printing, deterrents, anti-counterfeiting, security, brand protection, pharmaceuticals, Pharma, FDA, counterfeit, Safety GS1, PCIDs, drug formulation
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A quick blog today on an HP seizure of a mountain of counterfeit materials. Apologies for the long time between postings...just back from an amazing trip to Ireland for vacation. http://www.ameinfo.com/202085.html "HP Middle East's efforts to protect its customers from counterfeits in the region...
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In a continuing interpretation of Robert Greene’s 1998 bestseller, “The 48 Laws of Power” (Penguin Books), I turn it sideways (using the laws to fight counterfeiting and other forms of fraud) and then turn it upside down (using the laws to create better businesses). Today we address...
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StevenSimske
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06-16-2009
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Filed under: variable data printing, security printing, deterrents, anti-counterfeiting, security, brand protection, VDP, counterfeit, 48 Laws of Power, Robert Greene, Kissinger, Talleyrand, Fouché, Napoleon, Hamlet