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ITAR and Paper ROM
>Given that high-density inkjet printers can do 600x600 dpi resolution, it
>should be possible to achieve the equivalent of 100x100 bpi of
>easily-recoverable data on ordinary paper. That's about 800 kilobits, or
>100 kilobytes. What does ITAR say about this?
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>Jim Bell
>[email protected]
I'm not sure if what I did in the 80s, trying to create what I called
'paper ROM, is applicable. In these investigations I used matricies of
small (1-3 mm) squares of gray (16 levels) or color (64 levels) with a mind
to replace diskettes for inexpensive mass data distribution. I was able to
reliably get 100-200 KB/page side using standard offset printing. With
modern ink-jet/laser printers you should be able to reliably get at least
10-50KB/page side. Although a technical success, I abandoned the effort
when I discovered someone had patented (4,488,679) something similar a few
years earlier.
-- Steve