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Watermark or Guilloche: graphic security that protects your documents and products

Watermarks and guilloches are visual security technologies inspired by official documents such as banknotes, passports, certificates, or secure titles.

Featuring complex geometric patterns, fine interlaces, and designs that are impossible to faithfully reproduce with conventional copying methods, these devices effectively combat falsification, counterfeiting, and unauthorized reproduction.

Watermarks and guilloches provide a first level of immediately visible authentication while enhancing the perceived value of your secure documents, labels, and media.

These technologies can be combined with holograms, security inks, secure QR codes, serialization, or invisible elements to create multi-layered protection solutions.

The advantages of our Watermark & Guilloche technology

  • Effective protection against copying and falsification
  • Immediate visual verification
  • Unique and customized patterns
  • Aesthetic enhancement of documents and products
  • Compatible with advanced authentication technologies
  • Custom manufacturing
  • Adaptable to all types of media
  • Strengthening trust and compliance

Graphic complexity that is difficult to reproduce

Guilloches use extremely precise mathematical patterns that make fraudulent reproduction particularly complex.

Quick and intuitive visual check

Security features are immediately visible and allow for an initial verification without specific equipment.

Custom graphic design

Each pattern can be designed specifically for your brand, document, or product to achieve a unique visual signature.

Compatible with multi-layered security

Watermarks and guilloches can be combined with holograms, UV inks, microtext, secure QR codes, or serialization systems.

Enhancement of your materials

Beyond their security function, these technologies provide a premium finish and reinforce the quality image of your documents and products.

Design Support

Our teams assist you with pattern creation, graphic integration, and selecting complementary technologies tailored to your risk level.

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Technical Specifications

Type
PRIMARY USE
Simple Guilloche
Visual anti-copy protection
Complex Guilloche
High document security
Printed Watermark
Visual authentication
Micro-guilloche
Magnified inspection
Custom Design
Unique graphic signature
YOUR challenges

The answer
to your concerns

Security

Our expertise lies in finding security solutions. In a world where IT is becoming increasingly insecure, contact us for our assistance.

Anti-theft

Specializing in security solutions and proficient in a wide range of technologies, Genétiq is THE solution to your challenges.

Authentication

Trust us to secure authentication for your products.

Compliance

Genetiq certifies compliance with its secure labels.
The Process

How does it work?

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Client Needs Analysis

Fraud risk assessment and definition of the expected security level.

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Graphic Design

Design of custom watermarks or guilloches based on your visual identity.

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Development and Prototyping

Integrating security features into your documents, labels, or packaging.

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Authentication

Immediate visual verification and durable protection against fraudulent reproduction.

Our solutions related to this technology

FAQs

Solutions and How They Work

Why do your solutions seem simple to use?

Because complexity was addressed upfront. Every technical choice aims to eliminate unnecessary actions, risks of error, and constraints for the end-user. Simplicity is never an accident.

Can multiple functions be integrated onto a single label?

Yes, and it's often a key optimization driver.
Combining multiple functions helps reduce materials, handling, and installation times, while also making the overall process more reliable.

In some cases, understanding the solution requires a visual or video demonstration to make the functional benefits tangible.

Do you test solutions before deployment?

Yes, always.

With 28 years of experience with complex labels, testing is not an option: it's an absolute rule. Too many parameters come into play in production — materials, adhesives, inks, processes, environment — to leave any room for error.

As a client told us: “We think of it as a simple label, but what do we do with millions of products if it doesn't work?”

A faulty label can block inventory, stop a line, and directly impact production.
Industry doesn't get a bonus : our responsibility is therefore to secure the solution before it reaches the field.

Do your products withstand harsh environments?

Yes, it's mandatory. Without it, there is simply no possible use.

Gen’étiq solutions are designed to meet constraints related to regulatory, safety, and chemical aspects,durability, temperature,and environmental conditions (dust, handling, actual operating conditions).But let's never forget the concept of compromise. Each solution undergoes a

benefit/loss analysis
, to find the most relevant balance between performance, technical constraints, and practical value. Never settle for mediocrity, unless the benefit provided is real, measured, and accepted by the client.

Do your products withstand harsh environments?

COLLABORATION WITH GEN'ETIQ

When should you contact us?

Ideally before identification becomes a problem.
The earlier a solution is integrated into the process, the more it becomes a driver of reliability, time savings, and operational control — rather than a reactive fix at the end of the line.

Do you work with major industrial groups?

Yes, regularly. Our clients often face high volumes, rapid production rates, or critical stakes where an identification error cannot be easily rectified. In these contexts, robustness and reliability take precedence over standardization.

Do your solutions comply with industry standards?

When regulatory frameworks apply, they are integrated from the design stage. Standards are never an afterthought: they are part of the technical scope that must be mastered to ensure a usable and compliant solution in the field.

Why choose Gen’étiq over a standard solution?

Because real-world constraints are never standard. Our solutions don't start by adapting an existing product; instead, they're built around securing a specific use case. This practical, field-driven approach avoids ineffective compromises.

GEN'ÉTIQ, The Profession

What exactly does Gen'etiq do?

Gen'etiq designs and manufactures custom industrial identification solutions, engineered for durable performance in demanding environments.

Each solution is developed based on specific parameters: substrate, adhesive, functional layers, readability, security, resistance, and application and operating conditions.

Our goal isn't just to print a label, but to ensure a reliable process.

Are you a label printer?

No. Printing is just a means to an end. Our value lies in designing identification systems that can integrate into complex industrial processes, sometimes constrained by production rates, the environment, or operator ergonomics.

What types of industries do you serve?

We operate in sectors where identification is critical: tire manufacturing, aerospace, medical, logistics, and heavy industry.
The sector matters less than the on-site complexity and the consequences of an identification failure.

Do you work from a catalog or custom?

Essentially custom-made.
Gen’étiq controls a large part of the manufacturing process: ink formulation, development of specific adhesives, and functional integration into the label layers.

This technical flexibility allows us to avoid unnecessary compromises and deliver solutions that are user-friendly yet precise in their design.

Our Strengths

Why work with Gen’étiq  ?

Each industrial environment imposes its own constraints.

Innovation and R&D

From extreme resistance to unforgeable thanks to our technological stacks.

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Innovation and R&D
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Future

A company that seeks is a company that progresses. Genetiq invests in research not to follow the market — but to anticipate it.

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Future
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Ecology

Designing labels that withstand the harshest conditions without unnecessarily increasing the environmental footprint: this is the challenge we have chosen to take on.

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Ecology
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Client Commitment

We don't just sell a catalog. We analyze your problem and propose a solution.

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Client Commitment
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Commitment to results

In sectors where labeling is a matter of safety or regulatory traceability, "more or less" is not an option.

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Commitment to results
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A Team that loves its clients

Technology is our business. But what sets us apart is the attention we give to each project.

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A Team that loves its clients
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