Technology Hologram 2D Protection strategy Product authentication Type Overt feature System Optically Variable Device Medium Secondary packaging Authentication/Identificaton Authentication Traceability No Cost Price on request Required equipment none Vertification level Pharmacist; User N.B. Can be made more effective when incorporated in a tamper evident feature, or as an integral part of the primary pack. Can be incorporated into tear bands in overwrap films, or as threads embedded into paper substrates. The public must be carefully informed of the precise nature of the effect to look for, or the technology may be imitated by a cheap approximation which lacks the full effect of the original but is sufficiently similar to fool the average User. Description A hologram normally incorporate an image with some illusion of 3-dimensional construction, or of apparent depth and special separation. For a 2D hologram, an image appears in two dimensions normally in the plane of the hologram. Easily counterfeit Strengths User verifiable; Low cost; Can be a deterrent to counterfeiters; Limitations Easily mimicked (not perfectly copied but similar); Box can be refilled or re-used; May give false assurance; Links:http://www.securityprinting.co.uk/holograms-ovds.php
Technology Hologram 2D
Protection strategy Product authentication
Type Overt feature
System Optically Variable Device
Medium Secondary packaging
Authentication/Identificaton Authentication
Traceability No
Cost Price on request
Required equipment none
Vertification level Pharmacist; User
N.B. Can be made more effective when incorporated in a tamper evident feature, or as an integral part of the primary pack. Can be incorporated into tear bands in overwrap films, or as threads embedded into paper substrates. The public must be carefully informed of the precise nature of the effect to look for, or the technology may be imitated by a cheap approximation which lacks the full effect of the original but is sufficiently similar to fool the average User.
Description A hologram normally incorporate an image with some illusion of 3-dimensional construction, or of apparent depth and special separation. For a 2D hologram, an image appears in two dimensions normally in the plane of the hologram. Easily counterfeit
Strengths User verifiable; Low cost; Can be a deterrent to counterfeiters;
Limitations Easily mimicked (not perfectly copied but similar); Box can be refilled or re-used; May give false assurance;
Links:http://www.securityprinting.co.uk/holograms-ovds.php
Technology Hologram 2D
Protection strategy Product authentication
Type Overt feature
System Optically Variable Device
Medium Secondary packaging
Authentication/Identificaton Authentication
Traceability No
Cost Price on request
Required equipment none
Vertification level Pharmacist; User
N.B. Can be made more effective when incorporated in a tamper evident feature, or as an integral part of the primary pack. Can be incorporated into tear bands in overwrap films, or as threads embedded into paper substrates. The public must be carefully informed of the precise nature of the effect to look for, or the technology may be imitated by a cheap approximation which lacks the full effect of the original but is sufficiently similar to fool the average User.
| Description | A hologram normally incorporate an image with some illusion of 3-dimensional construction, or of apparent depth and special separation. For a 2D hologram, an image appears in two dimensions normally in the plane of the hologram. Easily counterfeit |
| Strengths | User verifiable; Low cost; Can be a deterrent to counterfeiters; |
| Limitations | Easily mimicked (not perfectly copied but similar); Box can be refilled or re-used; May give false assurance; |
| Links:http://www.securityprinting.co.uk/holograms-ovds.php |