The in-box card becomes your verification desk
When the EU’s transparency duty kicks in on 2 August 2026, paper authenticity will be decided not by “the print” but by how issuance and revocation actually run.
A small card inside a product box is about to become less of a “contact us” insert—and more of a front desk for authenticity decisions. Regulation is pushing AI-generated content toward detectability, and digital provenance is starting to standardise. Paper is easy to leave behind; that’s why the profit a print company can hold is moving from the press sheet to the workflow of “verifiable issuance.”
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Translated from Japanese by AI. The Japanese original is authoritative.
When you open the box, there’s a single small card inside. It’s not a warranty notice. It’s not a campaign flyer. It’s a card designed first and foremost to prompt an “inquiry.”
Here, “inquiry” does not mean a path to reorder. It becomes the entry point for proving origin and detecting tampering.…
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