In the age of desktop publishing, resourceful forgers can readily produce convincing copies of documents such as checks and prescriptions. Now, designers of laser color printers are fighting back with a new antiforgery technology.
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Researchers at Xerox in Webster, N.Y., announced last week that they have developed a way to use laser color printers to embed a secondary image–resembling a hologram–in the glossy surface of a document.