Kodak aims to pull the plug on counterfeiters exploiting the consumer electronics industry by deploying its Traceless System for anti-counterfeiting on its Li-Ion rechargeable digital camera batteries.
The Traceless System uses forensically undetectable markers that can be placed into printed materials, product packaging or components of the actual products. The markers can only be detected using secure, handheld Kodak readers.
Kodak has already implemented the system for customers in the pharmaceutical, cosmetics, wine, apparel and other markets.
The Traceless System can be used for a wide range of products and packaging materials as its markers can be mixed with various inks, toners, varnishes, and other items for analog and digital printing, as well as paper pulp, plastics, powders, pigments, liquids and textiles. However, the system is said to be especially suited for the electronics industry, because the covert markers can be embedded into widely used thermal transfer ribbons, a common method for printing bar code labels on electronic goods.
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