Posted on 11/22/2004 7:46:00 PM PST by Snapple
WASHINGTON--Next time you make a printout from your color laser printer, shine an LED flashlight beam on it and examine it closely with a magnifying glass. You might be able to see the small, scattered yellow dots printer there that could be used to trace the document back to you.
According to experts, several printer companies quietly encode the serial number and the manufacturing code of their color laser printers and color copiers on every document those machines produce.
COLOR laser.
Does anyone know if all printer manufacturers use this or just Xerox?
These were faxed in, IIRC. I doubt that a fax would transmit color microdots well.
My guess is that if you went to market tomorrow with a new brand of color laser your first visitor would be a nicely dressed gentleman from the Treasury Department who'd like to speak with you in private!
Good idea but IIRC as of yet no one has produced an original document. Also, I doubt any of the copies were in color but will grant that they could have been printed on a color laser printer. Finally, they were faxed which allowed the trace-back to Kinko's but likely would not reproduce the faint yellow tagging. Still, there must be an increase in the pucker factor at SeeBS now that this news is out.
Nah, they don't have that resolution.
And when you print in grayscale?
Or, better yet, remove the color cartridges?
CANON builds the "engine" for most laser printers no matter what brand they display.
There goes another intel anti-terrorist anti-crime tool exposed, trashed and laughed at.
Ok, I mean it. I'm going to get a dot matrix printer! :)
Good luck with the mouth breathers at Best Buy.
5- "My guess is that if you went to market tomorrow with a new brand of color laser your first visitor would be a nicely dressed gentleman from the Treasury Department who'd like to speak with you in private!"
AGREE - counterfitting tracing.
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Yes. Well if they do then they will learn that some people on this forum are calling for the mass murder of Arabs.
They are advocating genocide.
One thing I know, if a Muslim called for killing Christians the way some Freeper "Christians" call for killing Muslims, then they would be picked up for inciting terrorism or solicitation of murder.
Some of the people on this forum sound like nazis or commmunists. Extremely intolerent and claiming that "all good Muslims are terrorists, etc."
Terrorists are using Islam. It is not a terrorist religion.
You have to look at how people interprete their religion, not just take it literally. You have to look at how the religion is practiced by most Muslims. Most are peaceful.
A few are manipulating the mass of people and diverting money to terrorism.
Christianity has been abused in the same way. The KKK was a terrorist organization and they claimed to be Christians.
The Soviets controlled many religious organizations and used Christian scriptures to advance their political goals.
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