Monochrome device fluorescent pantograph
AssigneeXerox Corporation
InventorEDWARD N. CHAPMAN
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AssigneeXerox Corporation
InventorEDWARD N. CHAPMAN
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An original document is formed using a first print medium by printing a first and second monochrome patterns with a single colorant to form printed first and second regions including first and second shapes, respectively, which are devoid of the colorant. The second shapes have a smaller size and a higher frequency than the first shapes. The first and/or second regions encode information. The first and second patterns and a fluorescence of the first print medium are selected such that the first and second regions of the original document are indistinguishable to the naked eye, under both normal and ultraviolet illumination but are distinguishable, only under the ultraviolet illumination, in a copy formed by scanning the original document and printing the scanned document on a second print medium with a plurality of colorants, to reveal the encoded information.
A method comprising:
A method for evaluating a received document to determine whether the received document is a copy of an original document, the original document including a first region in which a first monochrome pattern has been printed with a single colorant, the first region including first shapes which are devoid of the colorant, and a second region in which a second monochrome pattern has been printed with the colorant, the printed second region including second shapes which are devoid of the colorant, the second shapes having a smaller size and a higher frequency than the first shapes, one of the first and second regions encoding information, the encoded information not being revealed to the naked eye under normal illumination, the method comprising:
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