Patrick White

Headquartered in Rochester, N.Y., Document Security Systems (DSS)—specializing in proven, patented protection against counterfeiting and unauthorized copying, scanning and photo imaging—offers a bar code printing method developed for consumer products and tickets that protects the bar code from duplication, forgery and counterfeiting. As reported in the “Wall Street Journal” in October, criminals are counterfeiting bar codes on lower-priced merchandise and affixing them to higher-priced merchandise before they purchase it. They then resell the merchandise on the Internet at its true, higher price for substantial profits. DSS has developed a printing method to prevent the copying or scanning of the bar code as well