Digital BW, The Print

Kevin Gulstene wrote:

>Keith-
>
>Thanks for the image.  It wouldn't open.
>
>Was that your own scan or the scan referenced in the thread you quote? 
>
It's the image referenced.. BUT The image is apparently a US Gvernemnt 
produced image.

> 
>The image you sent me had "specimen" on it so it probably isn't a scan 
>you made.  As it stands there is no no way to tell if there is any 
>pattern recognition going on but obviously something in the image is 
>being flagged.  If it's your scan then that's pretty cool!
>  
>

As I and others have found for US Currency this only works As Far as we 
can find, with the NEW $20 and $100 series notes and some UK Pounds - 
still wondering about high value EUROs... Therefore, it seems it is more 
likely than not, the recognition of some kind of embedded and easily 
identifiable watermarking..

Before I go further, after a short discussion with the Secret Service 
Public Affairs office in Washington, DC, I believe that I am safe in 
providing the following information. 

To quote from the US Secret Service website at 
<http://www.treas.gov/usss/money_illustrations.shtml>:

"The Counterfeit Detection Act of 1992, Public Law 102-550, in Section 
411 of Title 31 of the Code of Federal Regulations, permits color 
illustrations of U.S. currency provided:

   1. the illustration is of a size less than three-fourths or more than
      one and one-half, in linear dimension, of each part of the item
      illustrated;

   2. the illustration is one-sided; and

   3. all negatives, plates, positives, digitized storage medium,
      graphic files, magnetic medium, optical storage devices, and any
      other thing used in the making of the illustration that contain an
      image of the illustration or any part thereof are destroyed and/or
      deleted or erased after their final use."

For those  in other nations you may find links to your applicable 
regulations at <http://www.rulesforuse.org/>  Which is also where the 
PhotoShop CS error takes you automatically to.

If you want to test this out yourself.

I am posting a copy of  a US Government currency exemplar published  
SPECIMEN version of the new 2004 series $20 note, and a JPEG image of 
the PhotoShop CS error message for TECHNOLOGY and media information 
purposes ONLY..  ALL and ANY  INDIVIDUALS who download this image are 
responsible for their own actions and agree that they shall use this 
image ONLY for Adobe Photoshop technology demonstration purposes 
intended AND that they will destroy the file after it is used to 
demonstrate said technology. Downloading the file is at your own risk, 
and I accept no responsibility for your actions, use, or possession of 
said file or its contents.

The file is at:
http://www.krebs2003.com/adobe%20test%20image.zip


Beyond that, I can only say that when I did bring up the issue of how 
PhotoShop CS was dealing with the image, no-one at the Secret Service 
seemed surprised..

>The good news is that I can still scan and print my the old US dollars 
>and my Canadian dollars  ;)
>  
>
LOL



 
Keith Krebs

"Just some guy," caretaker of the Multiverse's largest EPSON printer 
User Community (highly recommended by Vogon Poets and MegaDodo 
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"For the rest of you out there, the secret is to bang the rocks together 
guys"