In both cases the trouble led to new security features on bottles, such as laser etching and holograms.

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Though the idea of microdotting dates from the 1940s, it became economically viable only with the advent of laser etching in the 1990s.

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In 1980, I bought True Colors by Split Enz and was endlessly entranced by the laser etching in the vinyl that made it seem full of colorful prisms.

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C. custom laser etching technology.

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Next door a laser cutter is zapping an etching into a glass bottle, and across the way someone is carving elegant curved strips of wood to make a wine carrier.

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