Security: You Either Get It or You Don’t

When printers perform pharmaceutical security printing, they have to handle the waste stream separately and dispose of it in a more secure fashion than they already do. “A pharmaceutical company asked me to audit a printer [to which] it was thinking of jobbing out some labels,” says Jay. The company was printing the labels, but the waste was going into the regular waste stream. “When you went back to the area where the waste was collected, you found that there were parts of the security solution being used that were not being completely obliterated,” he says. “Someone could take the waste and possibly reverse-engineer what the security solution was.” So much more goes into printing secure labels for the pharmaceutical industry than putting ink to paper. pP