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VTT’s Functional Inks Bring Additional Information, Entertainment to Products

Offers easier traceability and safer consumption.

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By: DAVID SAVASTANO

Editor, Ink World Magazine

Traceable consumer products and entertaining solutions are about to become part of our everyday lives, particularly in food packaging or, say, textiles and household appliances.   Through the TagItSmart project, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland is developing functional inks that can be used to add variable codes to products. For example, using such a code, a mug can notify a consumer of the temperature of a drink, or packaging can notify of the ‘best before’ date and the product origin...

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