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Moonshae

The most consistent part of my day available for shooting is usually my lunch break at work. I'm an editor, so I thought a shot of something work-related would be fun.

I was surprised to see the yellow dots all over the page; I'm not sure as yet whether they are printer created or are present on the paper right from the ream.

This is 6 stacked shots, 100mm macro IS (not handheld). Rotated in post (obviously).

Lord Vetinari

Interesting find and shot !
I'd guess it is something to do with the printer but I wonder what/why
Brian v.

Moonshae

A Google search turned up this very interesting read: http://www.seeingyellow.com/.

GOLDENORFE

good detil in paper surface, are the dots all over the pages?

Lord Vetinari

Moonshae wrote: »

A Google search turned up this very interesting read: http://www.seeingyellow.com/.

Not sure if I believe that or not but the dots look the same !
Brian V.

micknewton

What type of printer did you use? According to the article, the "tracking" dots are only output by color laser printers.

OffTopic

Interesting...I've known for years that laser printers print 'signature" dots on a document (I used to work in banking/finance), but never gave thought to printers. Electronic Frontier Foundation has a wealth of info on the subject [url="https://www.eff.org/issues/printers]here[/url], including a guide to decoding the signature in the dots of a Xerox Docucolor 12 (model, serial number, etc.).

Guess that's a good reason to hold on to your old inkjet printers if you plan to be up to no good!

micknewton

OffTopic wrote: »

Guess that's a good reason to hold on to your old inkjet printers if you plan to be up to no good!

I tried printing my own money with my inkjet, but the cost of the ink cartridges made it a loosing proposition.