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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. Gay by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I'm at work on a fucking Saturday.

    1. Re:Gay by _KiTA_ · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Lame. At least your work lets you read slashdot. Go read an online comic or too as well, that might cheer ya up.

  2. In Soviet Russia... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ...Pseudo-holograms make YOU!

  3. Re:OMG%^"^* by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ya

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

    It is now.

  5. Re:How is this secure..... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    make love to me :...)

  6. Re:How is this secure..... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    and their baby's daddy's momma

    Hmm...Im pretty sure you meant "their baby momma"

    Now for all you grammar buffs out there...

    Is a group of baby momma:

    "baby mommas"?
    "babys' momma"?
    "babys' mommas"?

    I eagerly await your response.

  7. Xerox - Corporate fraud by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Xerox is a book cooker! All the money they make should go to all the people the execs screwed.

  8. Re:How is this secure..... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Is a group of baby momma:

    "baby mommas"?

    could be.

    "babys' momma"?
    "babys' mommas"?

    Absolutely not. Where are those apostrophes coming from? And the plural of "baby" is "babies."

    "babies momma" is another possibility, as is "babies mommas" but that's much less likely. Welcome to the most confusing language on earth.

    I eagerly await your response.

    You liar.

  9. 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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  10. I'm making me a passport. by nicholaides · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    for 25 different countries, baby!

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