[TheForge] request for suggestions

[marc at ironringforge.com]

How about a different idea? Make a single page with your yellow dots on them.
Then bring that and your already printed sheets to the copier and make color
copies of the yellow dots, but use your originals instead of blank paper.

The problem is that you'd be paying for 30,000 color copies, even 
though you're
only copying dots. But maybe you can wrangle a deal, since you're 
supplying the
"blank" paper, and it's a minuscule amount of ink.

How much would it be to rent a color copier?

Would it go faster if you ran it through twice, once with B&W and the 
other just
for the dots?

And one last thing - I read that many printers already put dots on the 
pages as
an anti-counterfeiting measure. Supposedly the yellow print contains printer
identifying information. The privacy watchdogs are pretty upset about it. If
your printer is one of those, maybe find out what it's already printing 
and use
that? Or get a printer that does.

Can't help you with the invisible ink, though. My knowledge of that 
extends only
to the lemon juice method.

--Marc


Quoting "terry l. ridder" <terrylr at blauedonau.com>:

> hello;
>
> the last six months i have been working on printing 30,000+ pages of
> legal documents. this past weekend i started printing them. it occurred
> to me that i should mark these pages in some manner to provide a way
> that i can quickly ascertain their validity and that some lawyer did not
> take 'creative license' with any of them. the first thought was to print
> extremely small dots in yellow ink ( i am using a color laser printer to
> print the documents ). the yellow ink would not readily be seen by most
> people but would be readily seen under a blue light source. this proved
> to be too time consuming. that was taking the printer 30 seconds to
> print each side of the sheet of paper ( duplex printing ).
>
> the next obvious idea is to use invisible ink, uv ink or ir ink. that
> brings up the issue of marking 30,000+ in a somewhat random pattern that
> would not be readily detectable by the average lawyer.