Secure and protect with VariJET
Guest blog by Marc Hunsänger, Director Protection Technologies, Koenig & Bauer Vision & Protection
Proud of our heritage as the world’s first security press manufacturer, we’ve come a long way in the world of printing.
And as digital natives with more than a dozen years of app development experience, we make protection scalable and smart. Using cryptographic principles, your information stays private and secure.
Stegano is the name of our technology that ensures products are protected by hidden data. It also provides fast offline decoding and built-in connectivity. It can modify every single folding carton on a production line, providing unique, hidden serialisation.
With Stegano we can manipulate the printing for every single folding carton but with the huge advantage that the design won’t be visually altered. With an algorithm we can create new “information” that can be written text or a symbol.
It’s impossible to see the hidden information with the naked eye. But you can decode it with our app.
In terms of new possibilities, Koenig & Bauer Durst’s VariJET 106 is probably the most exciting development we’ve ever come across in recent years.
This digital press can modify folding cartons for each item (-> serialisation), no other conventional printing press can do it.
The advantages for customers using the VariJET 106 for protection purposes include:
- no additional costs (no new inks or other additives)
- printing process and brand design stay untouched
- decreased varnish costs due to Stegano implemented in a varnish plate
- added protection for brands
- traceability – you can give each single folding carton a hidden ID and follow their path -> grey market detection
For all these reasons and more, the VariJET is the perfect press.
Find out more about the VariJET here: VariJET 106 – Koenig & Bauer Durst Digital Packaging Print
Find out more about Stegano here: https://www.koenig-bauer.com/en/products/p/stegano
