OT: Smarter people do exist

[Bill Campbell]

On Tue, Dec 28, 2004, Kenneth Brody wrote:
>Walter Vaughan wrote:
>> 
>> Two things surprised me this Christmas.
>> 
>> 1) bought a new inket printer for my wife. They now have a sensor in the
>>   Canon (maybe other models now) pixma series where you print an
>> alignment page as part of the installation, it's own internal sensors
>> calibrate the printhead. Made me shake my head asking why we didn't have
>> this earlier.
>
>The higher-end HPs have done this for years.  (Cue image of "Battlestar
>Galactica"'s Cylons as the blue light scans back and forth.)

I always though BSG was about the stupidest ``SF'' series ever.

Back on the printer topic, I saw something recently that pointed that all
the color laser printers sold today print the printer's manufacturer and
serial number on every page using yellow dota that are basically invisible
if one doesn't know to look for them.  Presumably this is to prevent
amateurs from counterfeiting money (only the Federal Reserve and other
Central Banks are allowed to do that).

Bill
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