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Xerox Exploits Printer Flaws To Make Pseudo-Holograms

Posted by timothy on from the bug-to-feature-while-you-wait dept.

Red Wolf writes "A chance discovery by Xerox lets printers superimpose glossy images on regular printouts, creating the possibility for document authentication along the lines of holograms on credit cards. The new technology, called Glossmark, can use ordinary office printers to superimpose a glossy image on an ordinary printed document in a way that can't be photocopied or otherwise easily reproduced."

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  1. Re:Wait.... by Trigun · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    It is now.

  2. Speaking Of Documents by N8F8 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    A killer app that just happens to also be GPL'd that you can use to create PDF files on-the-fly with in Windows is called PDFCreator. Basically it is a PostScript to PDF convertor. Installed it just appears as a new printer. When you print to PDFCreator it prompts you where to save the resulting file. The file created also has selectable text.

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