Digital BW, The Print

Hi Tim,

But...even at that, putting it in Adobe is moot.  BTW, older scanners are
easily available...and the documentation of the command sets for scanners
are readily available (and certainly easily reverse engineered via a SCSI
bus analyzer)...and even at that, developing a scanner isn't really a *big*
deal, when you're talking minting millions of dollars, so unless it's built
into the linear sensor, which is obviously silly, all there preventing is
you and I from printing our own money, which I doubt is a significant source
of counterfeiting...but hey, if it makes them feel more secure (kind of like
locking your screen door ;-), who am I to question it.

Regards,

Austin

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tim Atherton [mailto:timatherton@...]
> Sent: Friday, January 09, 2004 11:00 AM
> To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: RE: [Digital BW] [OT] ADOBE's Response
>
>
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > Unless someone can explain differently, it's the scanner driver
> that scans
> > the image...so unless the scanner driver contains this CDS stuff, it's
> > really moot what Adobe does, as you can still scan the currency
> using just
> > the scanner driver and some other application.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Austin
>
> Austin,
>
> Apparently it's been in most/many colour copiers for some time - so I
> wouldn't be surprised if scanner drivers are next, if it's not already in
> some major ones.
>
> tim
>
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