How to certify that a document was printed from a given devi

Hi

Sorry… but I am not following

Will *YOU* be the one printing the documents from the electronic copy given by the Judge?

If that's the case you can use a watermarking program with your own logo or something (other than plain text) to signify that it was printed from that list. You can create PDFs of it and give those to other Counsels if needed. If you use a logo or a specially created image (as opposed to text) they will have a hard time replicating the watermark.

On the other hand, if you are handing them the native electronic copies - IMHO, I don't see of a way to *certify* that the printed copy they produce came from the native electronic copy.

-=Art=-

Greetings,

If you were to give me a collection of documents in some container in a manner that would allow me to review them on my own system, I am confident that I could find a way to print them without your knowledge.

If you want to ensure that any document in the collection that is printed will bear a watermark, you could watermark all the documents prior to putting them in the image.

-David

I agree with David. As Cory Doctorow once said, making bits hard to copy is like making water not wet.

Even if you watermark, there's nothing to stop me from say OCRing the watermarked doc or some other method to strip the watermark.

I recently heard of a similar issue with reviewing computer code for a civil case, and in that case the data was placed on a computer with no network access, in an access controlled room, with no electronic devices allowed to be brought into the room. The only way to produce data was to print it, and the paper in the printer was pre-bates-stamped.

So short of something like that…. yeah… no.