I used to work in printing but don't understand this ... but I probably could if you explained it to me. Never really set foot in prepress, but kinda get the jist of it.
Huh.... Runbeck Election Services ("One of of the biggest such vendors in the country") apparently uses one of those god-mode HP Inkjet webpresses. Old school image setting plates and all that don't apply. Just print and swap heads and roll in barrels of ink to connect to.
Entirely possible for a unique "artifact barcode" (a barcode made to look like random printing artifacts) to be inserted. I guess if I were going to make such a thing, the easist way would be to create a font type set (think wingdings... but instead of symbols or letters, each letter/character has a specific "random" artifact grouping assigned to it).
The more I think about it, pretty genius if they actually did this.
They could just have one unique pattern for the whole county, or one unique pattern per state, or per county. That would be enough protection when combined with the other serialized information from the state & for mailing like IMB.
I work in printing, that was 100% purposely made printing plates when they where printed!!
I used to work in printing but don't understand this ... but I probably could if you explained it to me. Never really set foot in prepress, but kinda get the jist of it.
Huh.... Runbeck Election Services ("One of of the biggest such vendors in the country") apparently uses one of those god-mode HP Inkjet webpresses. Old school image setting plates and all that don't apply. Just print and swap heads and roll in barrels of ink to connect to.
Entirely possible for a unique "artifact barcode" (a barcode made to look like random printing artifacts) to be inserted. I guess if I were going to make such a thing, the easist way would be to create a font type set (think wingdings... but instead of symbols or letters, each letter/character has a specific "random" artifact grouping assigned to it).
The more I think about it, pretty genius if they actually did this.
They could just have one unique pattern for the whole county, or one unique pattern per state, or per county. That would be enough protection when combined with the other serialized information from the state & for mailing like IMB.
HP Inkjet webpress has a print head for micro printing, I really really really hope this was the kill shot. Trump always playing 4d chess.