Having received a one year prison sentence for her part in a £48,000 bank fraud case a 36 year old mother of four fell to the floor before standing to beg the judge to change her sentence. Gertrude Cele, a former asylum seeker from Zimbabwe, along with her husband were caught when staff at Furness ...
We’ve been printing high quality pre-printed labels on a roll for over 30 years, but if you’ve never used roll labels before, you may be wondering about the benefits of having your labels on a roll. Price The cost-per-label is generally much higher with sheet labels than roll labels, so ...
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Canadian state Ontario has announced that from April they will be printing certificates for birth registration with a number of anti-fraud security features. At a press conference, it was revealed that instead of paper, the new certificates will be made out of a polymer, which is the same as the mat...
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A recent article surrounding the development of smart printing solutions, particularly the use of synthetic DNA gel for printing artificial organs is undoubtedly very exciting and ‘i,ROBOT-esque’, but putting Will Smith aside for a minute (apologies ladies!), does the development of supe...
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A commuter who used ticket printing paper to create his own first class railway tickets has been ordered to pay back £17,000 or face jail. Mark Mason, aged 44 from Hatfield Doncaster, used his home computer and ticket printing paper to fraudulently create 85 tickets over a period of 21 months. A fo...
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Jersey have revealed a new range of stamps featuring custom hologram printing. The stamps are thought to be the first in the world to use embossed holographic technology, and depict the Crest of Jersey as a hologram. The crest features three “leopardised lions”, whose spots also have a h...
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Drinks manufacturer Diageo has revealed they will be showcasing their new smart pre printed labels on a roll for their Johnnie Walker Blue Label brand of scotch at Mobile World Congress. In addition to the standard pre printed labels, each bottle will also feature a pre printed “smart sensor t...
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Cheque fraud examples are not unique to the UK, as is shown here by a 47 year old Pastor from Lagos State who has been arrested for fraudulently obtaining 4 million Nigerian Dollars from one individual in 2013. Olateju Oluwakemi is facing charges for obtaining by false pretense, issuance of dishonou...
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The 2015 Rugby World Cup doesn’t take place until later in the year yet it is already suffering from problems caused by fraudulent ticket printing for events. There has been a record level of demand for tickets, with all available tickets already sold for every England game. There are over two...
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Google Vice President and “father of the internet” Vint Cerf has encourage people to start printing documents and pictures, rather than storing them in digital formats. Cerf says that unless we start preserving digital documents by printing them, vast quantities of digitally stored infor...
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Two men from Anfield have been arrested and are appearing in court charged with fraud after selling counterfeit tickets to Liverpool FC games. It is thought the men advertised tickets online, conning hundreds of fans from around the world out of their money. Numerous complaints from Liverpool fans l...
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As a nation we throw away more than four million tonnes of edible food and drink, worth over 12 billion pounds every year, something one graduate decided to tackle with food labels. Solveiga Pakstaite, who recently graduated from Brunel University, has invented a new type of label that she says will...
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Fans who missed out on the second half of the first of Peter Kay’s live shows, due to the collapse of comedian Ted Robbins, will be issued new tickets for a repeat performance. Thousands of fans who attended the opening night of the Phoenix Nights Live tour in Manchester Arena only saw the fir...
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