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SECURITY PRINTING

The ultimate goal of security printing to prevent counterfeiting or tampering, helping businesses to protect their products by incorporating security features that cannot be forged and if altered, they can be easily detected.

Grand Prints being one of the leading security printing companies cater the needs of various industries and provide them with a reliable security printing solution. It can be used to preserve medical packaging, identity cards and other such products from forgery. Pharmaceutical companies can leverage our pharmaceutical security printing solutions to increase product safety and protect their brand, ensuring that the product or drug is authentic.

How we help you fight Counterfeiting at Grand Prints?

Security printing finds its applications in different industries ranging from banks to healthcare to enterprise businesses. We make use of most advanced security features to prevent tampering or counterfeiting of your products.

At Grand Prints, we make use of invisible inks helping retailers identify your products uniquely. These inks are not visible through naked eyes but can be seen under the influence of Ultraviolet LEDs. The invisible UV inks give a unique identification to your products.

We also use tamper-evident hologram with 2D or 3D holographic pattern to give a unique identification to your product and prevent it from counterfeiting. The method of serialization is also used to uniquely identify the product. Each product has a unique identification number that determines the product is actually manufactured by the parent company.

Security printing is must in pharmaceutical industry understanding the criticalness of providing the non-tampered products to the customers. The method of using invisible UV inks is the most successful ways to prevent counterfeiting in pharmaceutical industry.

What is Security Printing and What Techniques are Used?

Technology and software will always have holes that intruders will continue to exploit. With increasing security concerns surrounding tampering, counterfeiting and forgery, it’s no surprise that companies are looking for a reliable security printing solution.

What is Security Printing?

Every security document like ID cards, passwords, tax stamps, letterheads and other documents of critical importance require some authentic features to prevent incidents of forgery, tampering or counterfeiting.

Security Printing uses a number of methods to secure your documents, packaging or any other asset that can be tampered or forged easily. It is done to prevent forgery, counterfeiting or tampering of product(s). It finds its application in wide range of industries from pharmaceutical to FMCG.

Taking an example of pharmaceutical products that are forged in number of countries if the consumer doesn’t know how to identify if it’s genuine or not. The drug packaging should have identification features embedded so that the consumers can easily identify if it is genuine or not. Methods like Braille embossing, UV inks, serial number identification and holograms are used in the packaging of pharmaceutical product to ensure that they can’t be forged easily.

Different Security Printing Techniques

  • Use of Special Papers: Heavier stock security paper for printing is required for box printing.
  • Watermarks: A watermark is an identifying pattern or image in the paper that appears as different shades of lightness/darkness. They are often used in letter heads and other important documents to avoid counterfeiting.
  • Intaglio Printing: It is one of the best security printing techniques in which the image is incised into the surface and incised line or the sunken area holds the ink.
  • Optical Variable Ink: This ink displays two different colors depending on the angle of view. It is an anti-counterfeiting measure used on affidavits.
  • Holograms: Holograms are images made through Holography. Holography is a photographic technique which records the light scattered from an object and then presents it in a manner that it appears to be three-dimensional.
  • >Magnetic Ink: MICR code is a character-recognition technology majorly used in banking industry to ease the clearance and processing of cheques and other documents.
  • Serial Numbers: It helps in making the legitimate documents easier to track and audit.
  • Prismatic Coloration: Two or more colors are used in the background and blended together to create a prismatic effect.
  • UV Inks: These inks can be used on document as they are only visible under certain light and cannot be viewed with naked eyes.

There are a number of ways through which you can prevent forgery and counterfeiting of pharma packaging and security printing is meant to solve such problems.

The Bottom Line

The end goal of security printing is to prevent counterfeiting or forgery and help businesses protect their products by incorporating security features that can’t be forged. Businesses must choose reliable security printing solutions to ensure security of their products.

FAQ

Security printing will prevent any tampering or counterfeiting in your products.

Security Hologram is made by sophisticated technology of ‘Laser Optics’ to keep a check on duplicacy. Apart from this, it is also used as an effective source of brand promotion.

Only the brand owners can get their Holograms manufactured. No duplicator is authorized to do that. Hologram is the mark that the product is genuine.

You must give us the P.O. on your company’s letter head along with company’s GST/CST/LST/Registration/TIN no. to ensure that the brand is genuine.

Security Printing finds its applications in different industries ranging from banks to healthcare to enterprise businesses.

The time taken to complete an order depends upon the order size. It hardly takes us a few days to complete the order.

The amount charged for Security printing depends upon the size of order. Apart from this, the type of security printing required also influence the total price.

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