“As I’ve said, showing that Xerox can do these things now is a far cry from proving that they would have done those things on their own in April of 2011.”
What the industry-standard MRC process does during compression appears to me to be well documented for over a decade and the Xerox duplication issues are well-documented prior to 2011 on a whole family of Xerox copiers. I seriously doubt that the Xerox MRC software has changed since April 2011.
NBC has not claimed nor has he demonstrated any knowledge of Xerox equipment software code manipulation and his results could NOT be replicated and would be easily exposed as bogus if he had done anything like that.
I don’t see anyone refuting NBC’s claims that he has gotten the replication results he shows in detail on his blog using the Xerox and workflow he lays out.
At least some Staple’s Copy Centers use Xerox WorkCentre 7535 copiers. Should be fairly easy to try and replicate the test.
NBC isn’t the one who would be doing the manipulation. He would simply be the means for a supposedly-10-year-old problem to all of a sudden come to light.
How many complaints has Xerox gotten on this issue in the past 10 years? As David Kriesel said, these errors could be deadly. These machines are common enough that if they had been doing these things for the past 10 years there would be numerous audits that should have failed but didn’t, numerous blueprints that shouldn’t have worked to build real live, safe bridges, buildings, etc.... yet they did. Etc.
This started out being something that only happens when you use the low-quality settings. Then when the questions came up as to why they used low-quality settings to copy the long-form, the phenomena suddenly became much more widespread, including (eventually) even the default and higher-quality settings so that on those machines these errors should have been happening ALL THE TIME. For the last 10 years. Yet the 6’s and 9’s on Obama’s long-form are not substituted, and Xerox has received how many complaints on this in the last 10 years? These phenomena are supposedly so common - and yet Kriesel was so surprised that he thought somebody was playing a joke on him when somebody said the copies he made had errors.