> He described it as a "high quality" photocopier. It must have been > a really high-tech one that rasterised the image. It also must have > had the page horizontally aligned to high precision because it managed > to lose staff lines.
By special request from the police (mainly the FBI but probably equally popular with cops from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe) these things also have steganographic encoding of the copier identity in every image they make. Remember when we used to snigger at the Soviets for registering samples of typewriter output? ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jack Campin * 11 Third Street, Newtongrange, Midlothian EH22 4PU, Scotland tel 0131 660 4760 * fax 0870 055 4975 * http://www.purr.demon.co.uk/jack/ food intolerance data & recipes, freeware Mac logic fonts, and Scottish music To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
