Prescription Pad Printing

Did you know PRINT1 DIRECT meets all specifications for providing State of Georgia Prescription Rx pads per Georgia State Board of Pharmacy?

On September 22, 2011, the Georgia Board of Pharmacy revised its policy regarding the Board’s seal for tamper resistant prescription paper:

All vendors, which produce security paper used in the printing or creation of pads of prescriptions to be used in this state, and which security paper contains all of the following criteria will be deemed to be an approved vendor by the Georgia State Board of Pharmacy:

(1) One or more industry-recognized features designed to prevent unauthorized copying of a completed or blank prescription form;
(2) One or more industry-recognized features designed to prevent the erasure or modification of information written on the prescription form by the practitioner; and
(3) One or more industry-recognized features designed to prevent the use of counterfeit prescription forms.

By meeting all of the criteria identified above, a vendor may market and sell security paper for use in the production of prescriptions and prescription pads in this state provided the vendor notifies the Board in writing and provides the Board a copy of the product. If the Board determines that the paper submitted does not meet the requirements listed above, the Board will notify the vendor in writing. The Board will maintain a list of approved vendors.

All approved security paper shall have the Board’s seal of approval affixed to the paper. The Board’s seal of approval, as shown below, will be ½ inch in diameter, with the text in the seal being Georgia font, with the Rx within the circle being a size of 9 pt, with the text “GEORGIA STATE BOARD OF PHARMACY” within the circle capitalized with a size of 4 pt, and the text “SEAL OF APPROVAL” underneath the Rx with a size of 3 pt and capitalized.

All approved security paper used to print or create a prescription shall bear an identifying lot number, and each individual prescription shall be numbered sequentially beginning with the number one.

We use Zapco Security+ Paper in single, duplicate or triplicate forms. We print the lot number, the seal and sequentially number each and every prescription in all pads according to the Georgia State Board of Pharmacy guidelines.

For more information regarding new prescription pad specifications please visit http://www.sos.ga.gov/plb/pharmacy/