What makes the huge difference between how the White House’s copier handled the long-form and how it handled the short-form, which the whitehouse.gov page clearly says is taken from the snopes page?
The White House image of the snopes image is at http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/rss_viewer/birth-certificate.pdf
The snopes image that it cites is at http://msgboard.snopes.com/politics/graphics/birth.jpg
That printout showed through from underneath the long-form when the long-form was copied for the press. You can see a photo of that print-out for the press at http://theobamafile.websitetoolbox.com/post?id=5859778 (This phenomenon itself is a big problem because security paper is supposed to block anything behind it from appearing. And even if a scanner could be set to scan so deeply/sensitively that it could catch anything beneath it, it would surely have also detected the cross-hatches on the security paper.)
The snopes image also has the security background. If they printed that out on a computer printer it would still have the security background. If they then scanned the copy using the Xerox 7655 to create a PDF version of it and then sent it to a Mac computer and previewed it to correct the landscape orientation, it should have gone through the same kind of processing by the 7655 as the long-form did.
So.... How and why did they get rid of the security background on both the short-form copy for the press and the long-form copy for the press?
And how does the 7655’s performance on those 2 copies compare with its performance on the long-form? What layers and movable portions exist in those copies? They were presumably handled with the same settings and workflow as the long-form, since they are pdf’s that were sent to a mac and saved.
What 6’s and 8’s were substituted in all of these documents that went through the same workflow?
The White House image of the snopes image is at http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/rss_viewer/birth-certificate.pdf
This source of this image is actually just a printout from MS Explorer. The header and footer are standard for a print out from Explorer. Someone printed this originally with a browser.
The photo of the printout for the press is of a black-and-white copy that was the first page in a 4-page presspacket. Since it was printed on regular paper, the second page is showing through. The photographer to photos of all of the pages of the packet. Page 3 shows through on the photo of page 2, and page 4 shows though on the photo of page 3.
