Cigarette packaging materials are transparent paper materials, box paper, small box label paper, tongue paper, soft box seal, aluminum foil paper, tipping paper, filter part (acetate or polypropylene fiber tow) , cigarette paper, etc.; and cigarette trademark printing refers to the printing quality of various printing bodies of box and small box trademarks, mainly including the clarity of trademark patterns, hot stamping and gloss, ink color quality, and whether the color registration is accurate, etc.

Cigarette stick packs

1. Transparent paper

1. Texture: Polypropylene film BOPP is generally used, which is mainly used to delay the moisture of cigarettes. and loss of organic flavoring agents.

Genuine cigarettes: Transparent paper has high transparency, good surface gloss, smooth feel, and crisp sound;

Fake cigarettes: Generally, transparent paper has poor texture, lack of transparency and smoothness, and cannot be used by hand. Pushing is relatively slow.

2. Sealing:

Authentic cigarettes: Use electric soldering iron to heat seal without glue. The sealing should be parallel to the edge of the box, the sealing should be in a straight line, and the width should be uniform. The sealing position and width depend on the packaging equipment used.

Fake cigarettes: Generally, they are permed by hand, and the seal may be divided into several sections or have inconsistent widths.

3. Sealing at both ends:

Genuine cigarettes: Sealing at both ends is smooth, and the shape of the transparent paper overlap at each end meets the requirements.

Fake cigarettes: The transparent paper sealing may be upturned and the shape of the flap may be inconsistent. Pay attention to whether there are marks such as knife cuts or secondary sealing.

4. Anti-counterfeiting mark:

Shanghai Cigarette Factory has an anti-counterfeiting mark on the transparent paper on the right side of the front of the package, which is the factory emblem + the first 2 digits of the brand name pinyin + 10 digits, small The anti-counterfeiting mark of the box is on the bottom of the front, with the first 2 digits of the brand name in pinyin + 10 digits; using inkjet invisible anti-counterfeiting technology, it appears silver-white under ultraviolet light. The last digits of the anti-counterfeiting mark strip box and small box should be the same as the small (hard) The last character code stamped on the bottom of the box or the last character code stamped on the aluminum foil paper of the soft box corresponds to it. (When the last two digits exceed 10, the corresponding bottom stamp will be A, B, C... in English, and the anti-counterfeiting mark will appear ZHK (D) + number... The format is generally for export of Chinese cigarettes). When identifying, pay attention to the matching of anti-counterfeiting marks.

2. Wire pulling

1. Wire printing:

a. Whether there are printed fonts on the wire will be judged according to the situation of each factory.

b. Whether the meaning of the printed characters on the string is consistent with that of the manufacturer. The meaning of the characters on some fake cigarette strings is inconsistent with the trademark.

c. Printing quality:

Genuine cigarettes: the coloring is firm, the font strokes are clear and complete, and the font spacing is even;

Fake cigarettes: sometimes the coloring is not firm, The font strokes are incomplete and the font spacing is uneven.

2. Thread-pulling head:

Genuine cigarettes: The thread-pulling head has small machine incisions, and the thread-pulling head is symmetrical and consistent in width (for example, the FK machine is 11mm semi-circular, on the side of the box Move to the side; GKX-2 is a 10mm semicircle, located on the back of the box; Compast's thread head is flush with the seal of the transparent paper, centered on the side of the box; B1 machine's thread head is oval, located at the seal of the transparent paper).

Fake cigarettes: Generally, the wire pull head does not have small machine incisions. Sometimes the wire pull head has irregular shape and inconsistent width.

3. Box printing

The trademark identification of cigarettes should be based on the trademark printing characteristics of the cigarettes themselves, mainly from the pattern, bronzing, gloss and color of the box and the paper texture of the box. aspects to identify.

Genuine cigarettes: The surface of the carton is shiny, evenly painted, clear printing, bright bronzing, and relatively bright;

Fake cigarettes: Generally, the bronzing is dull, the coloring is uneven, and the surface is glossy Poor and blurry printed fonts, etc.

The products of Yuxi Cigarette Factory: trademarks such as Hongtashan, Yuxi, Ashima, Hongmei, and Congratulations to the New Year are printed with advanced imported gravure printing machines. The appearance of the trademarks is bright and clear, and the edges of the main pattern lines are Use a magnifying glass (or observe carefully with the naked eye) to see a tiny "zigzag" shape, which is difficult to forge. In addition, please pay attention to Yuxi cigarettes. The genuine products have a matte glue line on the edge of the box. At present, the counterfeit cigarettes produced by Yuxi Cigarette Factory on the market generally have dull and dull trademark printing and hot stamping.

Shanghai Tobacco Factory's products: China, Double Happiness, Peony and other trademarks are clearly printed, shiny and hot stamped, evenly and delicately colored, and the edges of the printed fonts are visible to the naked eye in the shape of teeth or fine needle points.

4. Box sealing

1. Sealing method

a. Three-point type: GDX-1, GDX-2 packaging products are three squares shape; Shanghai Tobacco Factory is an improved product of SASIB, such as Soft Peony, Soft China, etc. It has three small dots (beeswax).

b. Two-point type: B1 machine, Kunming Cigarette Factory soft box cigarettes, such as red camellia, camellia, soft cloud cigarette, etc., have two small dots.

c. Four-dot type: usually appears in outdoor smoke, such as soft Marlboro, soft Hilton, soft health brand, etc., usually four small green dots.

d. One-point type: Appears in individual external smoke.

e. Totally non-stick: Appears in products packaged by Falk Machine and in some external cigarettes, such as hard box Chinese, hard box Double Happiness, hard box Peony, hard box Yunyan, hard box Honghe, hard box Box of big heavy nine, hard box of red book tea, 555, etc.

f. Fully sticky: Appears in fake cigarettes.

2. The location and shape of the sticky filling points

Authentic cigarettes: the glue spots are uniform in size and the spacing between the sticky filling points is equal.

Fake cigarette: The size of the sticky filling points is inconsistent (irregular shape), the spacing between the sticky filling points is unequal, and there are obvious traces of manual sticky filling.

Before opening the box, you can press it with your hands to test the sealing points and whether the point spacing is equal.

3. Adhesives

White glue is used by Yuxi Cigarette Factory, beeswax (yellow) is used by Shanghai Cigarette Factory for soft box cigarettes, and yellow dextrin is used by Kunming Cigarette Factory. Ordinary glue is generally not used.

5. Recycling of old boxes

It means that materials such as transparent paper, boxes, and cigarette labels are genuine, and counterfeit cigarettes are repackaged by knife cutting and other methods. Currently, they are more common in Among high-end cigarettes such as Zhonghua and Liqun, the most common counterfeiting methods are knife-cut transparent paper at the boundary between the front and one end of the box, knife-cut drawstrings, and knife-cut transparent paper on one end of the box. Small packages are generally counterfeited. The method is to re-glue the upper and lower ends of the transparent paper. Identification method: Observe whether the trademark is tarnished, whether the corners are seriously worn, whether there are any traces of discrepancies in craftsmanship such as secondary sealing and knife cutting, and whether there are creases on the back of the small box flip cover.

Cigarette packets

1. Transparent paper

1. Texture: Polypropylene film BOPP is generally used, which is mainly used to delay cigarettes from getting damp and their moisture and moisture. Loss of organic flavoring agents.

Genuine cigarettes: Transparent paper has high transparency, good surface gloss, smooth feel, and crisp sound;

Fake cigarettes: Generally, transparent paper has poor texture, lack of transparency and smoothness, and is difficult to use by hand. Pushing is relatively slow.

2. Sealing: it must be flat, straight and even, and the sealing conditions of each package in a strip should be basically the same.

3. Sealing process: using heat sealing process. For hard-packed cigarettes, pay special attention to whether there are traces of re-sealing on the upper and lower ends (sometimes there are traces of glue). For products packaged by Fokker machines, there are cut corners on the transparent paper for sealing at both ends (there are two parallel diagonal lines from the adhesive seal to both ends).

2. Threading

1. Thread printing: refer to the box thread printing.

2. Thread pulling head: There are three types: semicircular, oval and square depending on the packaging equipment.

Authentic cigarettes: The thread puller has small machine incisions, regular shape and consistent size.

Fake cigarettes: Generally, there are no small machine incisions, and the wire head is irregular in shape and inconsistent in size. (Except for genuine boxes of fake cigarettes)

3. Seal

There should be two parallel glue marks on the back of the soft box cigarette seal, and one seal contains 10 packs of cigarettes. The pasting positions are basically even and aligned; the fake cigarettes are sealed by hand, and the sealing behind the seal is irregular, and sometimes the entire seal is stuck.

4. Cigarette labels

The identification method is the same as that of the box. According to the printing characteristics of each brand trademark, it mainly depends on the pattern, bronzing, gloss and color of the small box and the paper texture of the box. identification.

The trademarks of Shanghai Cigarette Factory and Yuxi Cigarette Factory are printed using imported gravure printing machines. Therefore, the trademarks are bright and have clear layers. When observing the edges of the lines with a magnifying glass (or observing carefully with the naked eye), they will appear as small "jagged" edges. (Waiyan Zhongsanwu, Jianpai, Marlboro)

5. Cigarette label sealing process

Hard box cigarettes:

1. Spot sealing: products packaged by GDX-2 machine;

2. Sealing with three parallel strips: products packaged by Fokke machine.

Soft box cigarettes:

1. Adhesive seal in a ---- shape: products packaged by Compas;

2. Add a straight line One point: Products packaged by B1 machine;

3. From top to bottom - -- -- Sticky filling: Products packaged by GDX-1;

4. In a straight line Shape: SASIB packaged output.

Generally, when machine-sealed, the edges of soft box cigarette labels are 1-2mm unglued, while fake cigarettes that are hand-sealed are sometimes completely glued at the edges.

6. Tongue paper

The tongue paper of the cigarette box has machine edges on both sides (feature of GDX-2)

7. Lining paper (aluminum foil paper)

Aluminum foil paper is a special paper made by laminating metal on paper. There are two packaging methods: direct packaging and horizontal packaging. The surface of genuine aluminum foil paper should be clean, bright and flat, with foil spots It should be fine and even, with clear font and pattern printing on the surface. The texture of the fake cigarette aluminum foil is soft and rough, the patterns and fonts on it are blurry, and the foil dots are too large and appear in an obvious grid shape. The aluminum foil tab of the hard box is generally connected to the aluminum foil below at four points.

1. The way the aluminum foil paper and cigarette labels are adhered (hard box packaging)

a. Completely non-adhesive: This situation often occurs in counterfeit cigarettes with modified packaging (hard box packaging) Huayuan, Longquan Case Office);

b. The aluminum foil paper is adhered to the front and back of the cigarette label in a five-point pattern, and the aluminum foil paper is wrapped horizontally, which is the characteristic of GDX-2 packaging products.

c. The five sides of the aluminum foil paper (front, back, left, right, and bottom) are stuck together, and there are two parallel strips stuck together at the front and back. The aluminum foil paper is straight-wrapped, which is a product characteristic of Fokke machine packaging.

2. Aluminum foil packaging direction

For details, please refer to the equipment packaging characteristics "Aluminum Foil" list.

Cigarette part

1. Tipping paper comes in two colors: white and yellow, and can be printed with various patterns and patterns. The "yxcf" font is found on Hongtashan cigarette filters, and there are laser holes on the filters of Marlboro, Jianpai, Techuan Sanwu, and Moore. Since 1997, the Yuxi Cigarette Factory has used laser drilling technology on the filters of Hongtashan, Ashima, Congratulations, and Yuxi cigarettes. If you look carefully, there is a circle of scattered needles on the cork paper of the filter. point.

2. There are two types of filter materials: acetate fiber and polypropylene fiber filters. Acetate fiber filters are used in medium and high-end cigarettes.

Acetate fiber filter tip: It is elastic, full filter tip and has good circumference.

Polypropylene fiber filter: difficult to cut, not smooth incision, slightly odor

3. Cigarette paper:

Pay attention to the brand stamp on the cigarette paper With digital stamps, each factory has its own characteristics, such as: Kunming factory is 3A5-4 type, Yuxi Tobacco Factory is 127-5 type, Ningbo factory is 0234 type, Hangzhou Tobacco Factory is RP09 type, Shanghai Bang is type 123 or No steel seal, hope to pay more attention to it in normal times.

In addition, Yuxi Cigarette Factory products use "yxcf" anti-counterfeiting technology on the ribbed paper of the cigarettes. Since this technology is manufactured during the papermaking process rather than printed during the production process, genuine cigarettes There is no ribbed paper under the "yxcf" font. Generally, "yxcf" on counterfeit cigarettes is printed on the cigarettes after they are rolled, so the ribbed paper under the "yxcf" font is clearly visible. Since the second half of 1998, counterfeit cigarettes have Cigarettes in "yxcf" also have no ribbed paper. The degree of simulation is relatively high, but there are still differences in printing quality, which should be distinguished during specific identification.

4. Cigarette paper rolling direction: Genuine cigarette paper has two rolling directions. Generally, counterfeit cigarettes are rolled in the same direction.

Shredded tobacco part

1. Quality of shredded tobacco:

a. Color: The color of mid- to high-grade cigarette shredded tobacco is golden or orange, with good gloss and oiliness;

b. Low end content and stem content: the shredded tobacco has a compact structure, and the cutting width and length are appropriate;

c. Whether it is blended with expanded cut tobacco, expanded stems or tobacco flakes; (General tobacco flakes are used in mid-to-low-end cigarettes)

Generally counterfeit cut tobacco:

a. Cut tobacco has poor luster and oiliness, high powder content and stem content;

b. The cut tobacco has been dyed and turns red at the corners;

c. It is cigarette scraps or untreated low-quality cut tobacco.

Judge whether the manufacturing process and formula structure of the shredded tobacco are consistent with the genuine product; compare and evaluate the smoking part with the genuine cigarette to see whether the style is basically consistent with the genuine cigarette. The main indicators are:

Aroma: the unique aroma of tobacco inherent in the cigarette smoke itself.

Harmony: The aroma is harmonious and consistent, and the characteristics of one of the monomers cannot be felt. Such as flavoring, adding materials and blending with the leaf aroma; the external aroma of externally flavored cigarettes is slightly more prominent, but does not cover the inherent aroma of the cigarette itself.

Office: no essential cigarette smell, slight or obvious bad smell. Such as grassy smell, dry smell, earthy smell, rosin smell, pollen smell, local miscellaneous smell and choking smell, etc.

Irritation: Slight or obvious discomfort caused by smoke. Such as thrusting into the nasal cavity, mouth, and throat.

Aftertaste: The taste sensation left behind after the smoke is exhaled from the mouth and nasal cavity.

When making specific identifications, different grades of cigarettes should be considered and treated differently.