[Congressman Billybob]

The reason to think that these documents were written (or forged, it remains to be established) on a typewriter using a ribbon. Work from a computer printer would not show a difference in weight or heaviness of different letters, which these documents do.

John / Billyhbob

[Southack]

"The reason to think that these documents were written (or forged, it remains to be established) on a typewriter using a ribbon. Work from a computer printer would not show a difference in weight or heaviness of different letters, which these documents do."

One of the posters earlier in this thread made a pretty convincing case that the size difference of the same "A" would indicate a cut n paste graphical job, using a digital photo of a real document as a starter (which would explain why there aren't obvious corrections on the forgeries that were commonplace on old, typewritten real documents).

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[RatherBiased.com]

The reason to think that these documents were written (or forged, it remains to be established) on a typewriter using a ribbon. Work from a computer printer would not show a difference in weight or heaviness of different letters, which these documents do.

Actually, dot-matrix and daisy wheel printers can have variations in character weights given that each letter is manually smashed onto the page through an ink and hammer method, just as a typewriter does.

[js1138]

The reason to think that these documents were written (or forged, it remains to be established) on a typewriter using a ribbon.

I don't have any clear recollection of IBMs from the early 70s, but I do remember that the high end typewriters used by executives had mylar ribbons that produced a page that looked printed. I'm pretty sure, based on intuition, that any typewriter capable of using a proportional font would have used such a ribbon.

The first document appears to have been scanned from the original rather than from a copy, because you can see through the magic marker and read the text that is supposed to have been blocked.