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A comment on EFF's “Yellow Dots of Mystery” (2008). Parent comment

Re:EFF's “Yellow Dots of Mystery” (2008) by joosters on Thursday March 26, 2015 @05:27AM (#9268530)
From the linked 'seeing yellow' site:

"They are present in both color printers and copiers but do not show up in pages printed in black-and-white mode."

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Re:EFF's “Yellow Dots of Mystery” (2008) by msandford on Thursday March 26, 2015 @09:02AM (#9269197)
Because you can't print counterfeit currency with black and white, which is ostensibly the reason the whole thing got started.
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Re:EFF's “Yellow Dots of Mystery” (2008) by arobertson on Thursday March 26, 2015 @12:50PM (#9271048)
Couldn't you replace the black ink with green ink and then print in "Black and White" mode?
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Re:EFF's “Yellow Dots of Mystery” (2008) by msandford on Thursday March 26, 2015 @04:51PM (#9273000)
My guess is that you wouldn't get the shades right. Maybe with a lot of trial-and-error, but at some point it's easier to just make some printing plates and go that route. Either way the paper is the real problem.
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Re:EFF's “Yellow Dots of Mystery” (2008) by akallio9000 on Thursday March 26, 2015 @12:52PM (#9271081)
So you could substitute green ink in the black ink container?
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