30 Jan
2005
30 Jan
'05
4:25 p.m.
- at least
until they get DRM pushed into printers,
Done! Most recent HP drivers for their
scanners prevent copying of
newer US$20 bills. Tosses you to an anti-counterfeit website!
Windows of course. Color laser printers output a serial number indicator
of some sort by
a near-invisible pattern of yellow pixels overlaying the printed
image. I imagine it's not 100% reliable but apparently it's been in
place for some time.
It sounds like tin-foil-hat black-helicopter stuff,
but I found
multiple stories about it online in places like The Standard.
If I caught my printer doing that, I would tell them to fix it. If
they tried to claim it was a feature, or otherwise refused, I'd return
it and find a printer that printed what - and nothing but what - it was
given to print.
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