I'm sure there are better ways, but...
most digital presses (all?) have to embed data in every print by "voluntary" agreement with the US government. This is in the form of a faint pattern of yellow dots, which encodes the serial number of the machine printed on, the date/time printed and so on. Check any blank areas in the printed item with a loupe and if you see tiny yellow dots, you are 100% certain it's digital.
I'm sure there are better ways, but...
most digital presses (all?) have to embed data in every print by "voluntary" agreement with the US government. This is in the form of a faint pattern of yellow dots, which encodes the serial number of the machine printed on, the date/time printed and so on. Check any blank areas in the printed item with a loupe and if you see tiny yellow dots, you are 100% certain it's digital.
I have never heard of this. Can you point me to some documentation about this?
Does an Indigo lay these dots down, I know Xerox do.
AjR
We are quoting on some awkward jobs, we think they should be done produced digital customer says they were produced litho. We can't tell from the samples. Any tips for checking how a job was done before?
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