Are signatures on cheques about to become a thing of the past?
Signatures have been officially used to sign contracts in England since 1677, when the Statute of Frauds act was passed in parliament. However, according to a recent article by the BBC, the use of physical signatures as a security feature is in decline and could soon be removed from cheque printing....
How to use personas to improve the success of your direct marketing campaigns.
What is a persona? Marketing personas are a powerful tool that can be used to help understand more about your customers and allow you to target your direct marketing more effectively. Putting together a set of personas to refer to when creating campaigns will help you put yourself in your customers&...
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Could hologram stickers help regulate cricket matches?
Hologram stickers have long been used for security purposes – including the protection of passports and banknotes in many countries. Because they cannot be copied, forged or altered they are one of the most secure methods of verification. In sticker form, holograms are particularly useful to m...
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Is your event ticket secure? Security techniques to look for when ticket printing
Whatever your event, when looking into getting your event ticket printed it’s vital to consider the security options your printer can offer. Ticket touts are getting more sophisticated, with 67,000 fake festival tickets reported to be in circulation last year. With this in mind, making sure yo...
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23 uses for printed labels on a roll
Have you ever used printed labels on a roll in your business? If you have, you’ll know how incredibly useful labels can be – they have a huge range of applications. Here’s 23 of our favourite uses for printed labels on a roll (but we could go on much longer!). Address labels –...
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Trusting Banks Again: Improving Reputation by Improving Customer Experience
Financial crisis or not, the banks and the bankers have had a long standing PR problem on the whole that has only worsened in the days of the credit crunch. Bonus schemes and expenses scandals stand alongside the ethical minefields of using cheap offshore labour and tax avoidance/evasion. However, s...
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Could secure printing have helped to reduce the scale of the recent £120k cashing scam?
We’ve written previously about the issues surrounding cheques and the relative ease with which certain criminals are able to fraudulently obtain huge sums of money. The Liverpool Echo recently published an article about a group who had collectively netted over £120,000 and are now facing time...
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How important are ID cards in the real world?
A vast number of businesses utilise security print via the use of ID cards in a bid to keep their products, services, clients and employees safe and secure. The reasons behind this, and the potential risks associated with not ensuring that all employees wear ID cards, varies drastically from industr...
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How can using hologram stickers both protect and improve your brand reputation?
The obvious, and arguably most important use for holographic stickers and labels is to protect your brand from fraud, ensuring that counterfeit products cannot be sold under your name. It’s simple, only genuine products feature your unique hologram stickers. There is in fact an additional bene...
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Hague announced as one of Yorkshire’s top 100 SMEs in 2014
We are very proud to share that Hague Computer Supplies has been declared one of the region’s top small/medium enterprises in 2014. At position 60, we’re very proud of the progress we’ve made as a business since we were established in 1980. We now offer an extensive range of busine...
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How can ticket printing fraud be prevented?
Over recent years there’s been much talk about ticket printing fraud, with many innocent fans being scammed out of hundreds of pounds on tickets that either never arrive, or are counterfeit. How would you feel; you’ve spent your hard earned money on a pair of tickets for your partnerR...
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The importance of brand protection, could it have saved Aston Martin time, money and most importantly, its reputation?
Product Piracy is becoming a major problem due to its high profitability. This is why Brand Protection is becoming more and more important for industries with high standard products, such as pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, tobacco, alcohol, and many more. It is not only important for the manufacturer to...
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Could stealth printing techniques help to prevent cheque fraud?
Following a recent article in the Daventry Express, detailing how a postal worker helped to facilitate frauds with a total cost to banks of over £1 million we’ve been discussing whether stealth printing techniques could help to prevent similar crimes. The difficulty of this particular fraudul...
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