New label ink makes RFID more secure

One of the main concerns of the RFID industry to date is that RFID tags may be counterfeited and their encoding systems may be copied. XINK's new ink can eliminate this hidden danger, which is a theoretically invisible printing ink, which has already been adopted in currency anti-counterfeiting. By combining this ink with Creo's invisible labeling technology, the fear of label counterfeiting can be eliminated.

Creo said that the new invisible ink formula is specially designed for smart packaging with RFID tags. This packaging is already a mandatory requirement of Wal-Mart and is currently a product recommended by the Food and Drug Administration to prevent counterfeit and inferior drugs from entering the market.

Creo has been working hard to promote this invisible ink in the pharmaceutical industry. As investigations have found that one-seventh of global sales of drugs are counterfeit drugs, the use of invisible ink is increasing and the types are increasing. Last Monday, the Canadian company announced that it has collaborated with Accucote to develop a successful stealth label that can be used in the pharmaceutical industry.

The invisible label can be read at high speed on the production line. The reader is Creo's patented handheld reader. The reader can send simple pass/fail information, position of invisible tagged items, and record the image of the item because each tagged antenna has its own unique code.

For the creation of anti-counterfeit systems, Creo's image signals for label items can be marked with their unique location. Each RFID antenna has its own ID code.

XINK's RFID stealth ink concentration is less than 2ppm, and it is almost impossible to find it. Even if using the most advanced measurement methods, such as Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry (ICP-MS), it cannot be detected.

Kevin Harrell, Creo's global operations director, said: "Adding the company's tag material to the antenna's tag ink allows for the identification of all RFID tags in the field using only a pen-sized reader."

This new technology has been released at PISEC's Sixth Global Conference on New Product and Security Imaging in Vienna. This security ink and RFID tag can only be purchased at XINK and its agents. XINK's invisible inks can be successfully printed on standard prints without the need for thermal vulcanization. It can also be printed on many heat sealing paperboards, suitable for pharmaceutical packaging.

Source: Shengying RF