Joe lays out every tag with the codes given to him. Before he stamps any tag he has an OE Gold judge look at the lay out to insure it contains the proper font proper placement and correct codes apear on the tag. No he is not saying it is a real tag. But as mentioned many suppliers enter codes that wouldn't be on a real tag. A good OE judge would pick that out before the tag is stamped. If it is being made from an orignal tag he makes sure it all looks correct aligment spacing font ect. The tags are correct size not incorrect like some out there. There not cheap and because the judge is not an in house employee and he has to wait for him to come in it takes 8 10 or more weeks to get one. I'm not saying there perfect and without an orignal to go by he can only go by the info you supply. But they do the best job of reproducing fender tags. He did one for me based off my rusted orignal and i could not find anything different about it. It looked identical in every respect to the orignal.