Yellow Dots on Xerox Digital Prints

[gordo]

Well, at least they're not doing it on our posts. gordo

[dynamicprinter]

It doesn't bother me.
I can only see it under a loop.

[lfelton]

Well, with my Fox Mulder hat on, I'd say that encoding information like the time and date printed & the serial number of the machine has more to do with tracking people who print stuff the government doesn't want you to read. After all, intaglio printing doesn't even feel remotely like offset, let alone all of the other simple counterfeit detection techniques.

However, when not in "conspiracy nut" mode, I have to say that people seem pretty easy to fool. I watched a documentary a while back about the police busting "the biggest counterfeiting gang" in the UK. They had footage of the criminal's "high tech equipment" which looked suspiciously like a tatty old Ryobi 512 in a ratty old shed. I wouldn't have suspected them capable of getting the colour right on the church newsletter, but apparently they'd printed "millions of pounds" worth of high quality notes. Maybe people really are daft enough to not notice photocopied bank notes!

[WillG]

As others have said, a digital print is quite obvious. I've never seen a glossy $100.00 bill, but then again who else has seen the toner cracking off currency. I guess you all didn't hear about the guy that tried passing a $1 Million Dollar bill at Wal-mart? The Smoking Gun: Archive someone is always going to try and do something stupid when they think they can get away from it.

[Island]

Anyone send a bill to the government for yellow toner use over 10 years?

[Craig]

anyone send a bill to the government for yellow toner use over 10 years?

That's funy!

[SAMiAM]

It's a code for the serial number of the machine. If you try to pint counterfeit money they can trace it back to you.

[Island]

I can appreciate the idea, but it is a bit unfortunate that on my new docucolor I can see the xerox yellow dot pattern in the prints with my naked eye. They are especially visible when printing with enhanced gloss mode on gloss stock it seems.

[rsands]

what machine you got? can i guess its a DC2xx?

[Island]

Yup. Yellow dots are a bit more noticable than I'm used to on the canons.