[Chummy]

"...They were xeroxed and then faxed then rexeroxed to get that nice slick out of focus look...."

Oh, heck, you wouldn't even have to go through all that trouble; just use a fairly inexpensive program like Paint Shop Pro and one of any of a number of available plug-in filters to achieve the desired effect.

Fifteen minutes or less.

[Darksheare]

True.
But the look of the documents reminded me of an office game variously called 'the unreadable memo' and other such.
Basically you run the memo through the xerox machine and then the fax so many times that it is so garbaged up as to be unreadable.
Was one way of ticking off my old Captain as well, turn in paperwork so illegible that he had to guess what it was for and why he needed it.

Only saw that pulled once, the Cap didn't ask for quite so much paperwork afterwards.