Why the tiny yellow dots?
Posted by Terrence at 11:35, 21 Oct 2005Just read the piece about Xerox and HP and other makers of printers, putting a secret tracking system of invisible dots into their products:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/con...
I just have one question: Why?
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1 May 2004
6 weeks 1 day
Hi Terrence,
From the article i gather that this technology was operational 10 years ago..back then the dpi quality of printers was in no way capable of counterfitting.
"It's to protect our currency and to protect people's hard-earned money" yeah right ! Besides go(l)d told them to. Now that the secret is out, i suppose printers will rise on the stolen items list very soon. Then again professional counterfitters would have seen those dots long ago when checking the quality of their bills.
" do unto others as you would have them do unto you "
22 November 2004
2 weeks 12 hours
Actually, about 10 years ago the dpi quality was quite capable of small scale counterfitting.
Many people did pass off fake US dollar bills (10s and 20s usually) that they made with ink-jet printers, and with color copiers at
the office or at office supply stores where you could make
color copies inexpensively. These were individually very small
scale operations (students making $100 in fake bills one time),
but it was relatively common. The problem was that it was economically
feasible to make 5 fake bills, where in the old days, when you had to
get your own printing press, you needed large quantities to break
even.
Depending on where you spend them, they counterfit bills don't have to be very good, and the US bills were very simple then (and still are),
compared to most of the European paper money.
Of course, the reason for the tiny yellow dots it that the
very large red squares are too noticable.
The real conspiracy in connection with the printers it the price
of the ink.
22 February 2005
4 years 10 weeks
Australia has had plastic money for years. It was a world first and is still a world leader in the prevention of conterfit.
But does funny things in a micro wave.......like shrink..hehe.
but yes, when you get used to it, like it folds funny when it wants to, it is pretty cool. I like it....yay for plastic money!
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24 June 2004
4 years 35 weeks
Does it really shrink in the microwave?
Well I guess you'd know, you seem to put everything in there.
I think it looks like a high class Monopoly money.Apparently if you wash it with certain soaps the picture washes off the plastic.
It would be very hard to counterfeit.
Actually I have never been able to get it to fold at all, and I have seen elderly people lose notes when it bounces out of their wallets.
shadows
22 February 2005
4 years 10 weeks
I learnt how to manage it by watching frantic pensioners at the pokies.................... ;-{)
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24 June 2004
4 years 35 weeks
shame..floppy...shame
shadows
24 June 2004
4 years 35 weeks
How DO you fold the damn money?
shadows
22 February 2005
4 years 10 weeks
grab each end tightly....then force it over a sharp metal curve, as found on a pokie coin tray.....works a treat!
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