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Utility bill door hanger

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Utility bill door hanger

Utility bill door hanger

Today during our walk around the plant we noticed this door hanger during the die cutting process.   This application is used for utility customers with high unpaid charges.   Information is added to the tag which is then hung on the front door of the household.   Utility companies often must use hang tag or label applications which are hand delivered to conform to customer notification policies.   Electronic versions may not be effective as the household may or may not have internet access.

Door hangers as these could also carry envelopes for remittance payment which would be pre-addressed for proper delivery to the utility accounting department.

The Flesh Company offers a wide variety of tag and label designs for utility or service providers.  These can be used for promotion, on-site invoicing or collection purposes.  Contact our sales team at 800.835.0098 for your next tag or label opportunity!

Note: Samples of images used within this newsletter may not be available.

PSDA 2012 Print Solutions Conference and Expo

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The 2012 PSDA Print Solutions show was recently held in Baltimore, MD consisting of both educational conference sessions and an excellent exhibit hosting 142 manufacturers and suppliers.  The conference offered high quality speakers such as John Leininger, Professor, Clemson University, who spoke on the ROI in variable data printing as well as a session on new product development.   Other tracks were dedicated to sales training and business operations.

The show exhibit area was full of new ideas, products and solutions from business forms to plastic cards to POP displays.   A short walk through the PEAK Awards winner isle gave the attendees a perspective of the manufacturing talent available from PSDA manufacturer members.    As an annual entrant in the PEAK program, The Flesh Company was honored to win four Grand Awards and one Award of Excellence.  Our entries spanned commercial color, variable data, integrated labels, business forms and form/tag combinations.   Photos of these products and the awards ceremonies can be seen on our Facebook page.

 

Roger Buck, CDC, Marketing Director for The Flesh Company, received the PSDA 2012 Member of the Year Award for his efforts in supporting the association and industry.

PSDA President Bill Prettyman (L) - Roger Buck, The Flesh Co. (R)

 
 
 
 
Response from the attendees indicate this was one of the best shows in many years for content and value.   The 2013 PSDA Print Solutions show will be in Chicago at Navy Pier.   The Flesh Company will be celebrating out 100th year as a family owned business so set that date aside now! 

 

 

Tags in identification

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We see a variety of tags come though the plant and one application recently stood out not only due to its size but also the processes used to execute the tag in the field.  Though basically only a two-part unit set construction, both plies required matching jumbo numbers and bar coding to allow for a long-range of viewing or scanning.  The tags are affixed to salvage pallets.  To accomplish this transfer tape was applied to the left and right margins of the back of each page.  After the shipping and sender information is completed the tape is easily removed in the field for affixing to the shipment.

The full coverage green background helps highlight the skids from others during storage and transportation.  This is a good example of using a traditional business form format to create an efficient means of tagging and tracking large item shipments.

Other applications may require a durable or water resistent substrate.   If additional bar code tagging were needed the large bar code area could have been created as an integrated label then die cut to produce a quantity of small labels of the same code which could be applied to items being removed from the primary storage pallet.

A good design solution will take into consideration the document execution process, environment and required life span during the design phase.  Members of The Flesh Company sales team can assist with unique and challenging applications.

Integrated label application for windows

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Many integrated label applications are used to apply bar codes, addresses or other marking formats to packaging, mailings or products.  Another great application involves using the integration process to create a window sticker.  In these designs the transfer adhesive liner is applied to the face of the area to be affixed to the glass so as it’s removed the permanent adhesive remains.   The sticker can then be removed from the document and applied to a window, inside a windshield or other view through application.

Applications may include city permits for taxis, tunnels and tollways.   Many agencies and city departments use these to update restaurant permits for food, beverage or fire inspection.  These applications are also excellent opportunities to promote counterfeit deterrent solutions such as security printing, foils, substrates and covert authentication systems.

Security Tactics: Micro printing and VOID pantographs are excellent tactics to deter counterfeit attacks by use of copiers or scanners.   Covert and overt fibers in the paper or taggants blended into the ink can provide a visual means of authentication either by the naked eye or with a black light.   Bleed through numbering is an inexpensive form of security where the number printed on the face of the permit bleeds through to the back.   The dye process is difficult to replicate and often overlooked by criminals attempting to pass a fake permit.

As with any security document, we encourage layering an array of security features to protect the document against chemical, physical or digital counterfeit attacks.   The Flesh Company is a leading provider of document security printing.  For more information on security documents and printing tactics read our Document Security White Paper and our Risk Analysis White Paper.   Or contact our sales team at 800.835.0098.

 

Under ringing

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Here’s a form of fraud you many not hear about often.  It’s called “under-ringing” and it is often used in the self check out line at various types of stores where the customer replaces the bar code tag on an expensive product with a tag from a product of lesser cost.  In a variation of this the clerk may scan the item at a lesser cost but receives the full cost pocketing the difference.   It’s estimated that retailers lose $52 billion per year on under-ringing fraud alone.

The next questions might be what can we as security print professionals do to help retailers?    Do the labels require a more aggressive adhesive?   Do the substrates need to be fractured to deter removal and replacement on other products?  Would a 2D code be a more effective solution as it can carry more data?

Brand and ID theft continue to be the largest form of fraud loss in the USA with document/check fraud close behind.  The Flesh Company is a leader in the production of secure documents utilizing combinations of print and substrate security features in both overt and covert formats.  Applications range from vehicle titles, certificates of origin and identification cards to birth and death certificates meeting state regulated specifications.

Click the link to read more about “under-ringing”. http://goo.gl/JmXq2