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Re: Original vs. Copy: Printed Lego Items
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lugnet.general
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Fri, 13 May 2005 01:53:57 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Ross Crawford wrote:
> In lugnet.general, Gerhard R. Istok wrote:
> > I received a 1964 Danish catalog from a European collector recently. Since I
> > got if for free (after buying some other items), I thought it was great. The
> > one sheet (two sided) catalog is in such great condition, I was wondering if it
> > wasn't a photocopy. (It seemed more like copier paper than old Lego catalog
> > paper.) I know that scanned items can be detected as copies by looking at the
> > items with a powerful magnifying glass, and seeing the dots or pixels. But I am
> > not familiar with photocopied items. Do they too have those "dots" when
> > magnified like scans off a dot matrix printer?
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> Depends on the copier. Most cheaper modern copiers use a digital printer-style
> engine to generate the copies, so you will see the pixelation at high
> magnification. However older ones transferred the image non-digitally, and many
> newer copier-only models also still do, i believe. I'm not sure whether the
> magnifying glass would help you identify copies from them.
Oooops, just realised the catalog is probably colour, and all colour copiers are
digital (AFAIK). So yes, you can probably tell with enough magnification.
ROSCO
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| (...) I'm pretty sure there are non-digital color copiers. I have a color photocopy hanging in my office that was made at least 20 years ago, and with the tools available here in the office, I can't see any pixelation. I guess it could be digitial, (...) (20 years ago, 16-May-05, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) Depends on the copier. Most cheaper modern copiers use a digital printer-style engine to generate the copies, so you will see the pixelation at high magnification. However older ones transferred the image non-digitally, and many newer (...) (20 years ago, 13-May-05, to lugnet.general)
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