Interested in the printer that encodes serial number info?

[Must_B_Free]

My friend services these machines and he says he's know this about 10 years. But get this - his brand looks for crosshair patterns and then looks for money patterns. he says if it finds money it stores info in the NVram and then on the second copy it messes up the color a little. On the third copy, it really messes up the color and then shuts off and you have to replace the CPU. If it is connected to the internet, it sends a message to the secret service.

Pretty amazing technology huh?

[Deja Q]

1. Way cool. Pity there's no way to go after corporate crooks who counterfeit

our very lives.

[sangh0]

2. And what brand is that?

I'd like to test that.

But get this - his brand looks for crosshair patterns and then looks for money patterns.

[leftchick]

3. Xerox...

It seems to be the company most cozy with the FBI on this....
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=19825

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GIANT PHOTOCOPYING firm Xerox has admitted designing its colour photocopiers so that they put a hidden code on your copy that will help the US government identify you
According to Peter Crean, a senior research fellow at Xerox, all his company's laser printers, copiers and multifunction workstations, put the serial number of each machine in yellow dots on the page.

He told the Medill News Service that the dots only show up if you look at the document with a magnifying glass while shining an LED beam on its surface.

This will mean that if any document shows up in a criminal inquiry the spooks will be able to track the document to you photocopier.

Apparently it is designed to catch crooks who counterfeit money on a photocopier, although it is hard to see how anyone call fall for fake photocopied cash.

[sangh0]

4. Nope

I was asking about the brand that sends a message over the Internet if you copy money