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The Typewriter Idiosyncrasy of the 21st Century

Remember the cliched mystery clue of the letter that came from a typewriter whose ‘e’ was a little below the baseline?

No surprise that it’s out of date, but did you know that all color laser printer output can be traced to an individual printer?

Like Photoshop’s refusal to open images of currency, its stated purpose is to fight counterfeiting, and it’s an example of consumers paying for a feature no one actually wanted. Unlike that, though, the laser printer colormark obviously has much wider potential application.

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