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I turned 18 in 1999. I found a discarded HP plotter from the mid eighties in the late nineties (about 1996/1997) and successfully connected it to my PC. There
by qubex 9y ago
I turned 18 in 1999.
I found a discarded HP plotter from the mid eighties in the late nineties (about 1996/1997) and successfully connected it to my PC. There I used CorelTrace! to transform a scan of my father’s signature into a vector file. Then I was able to place any document the school wanted him to sign into the bed of the plotter and have it literally inked onto the page.
Excellent, reliable, indiscriminate forgery. (I’ve since owned up to this.)
- julian_t 9y agoWe did the same thing with the signature of our department head, who was often out of the office, and was cool with it provided it didn't get him into trouble. It was necessary because this was in the Civil Service where you needed a signed requisition for everything, and previously he'd just leave a pile of pre-signed forms on his desk when he went away...
- baldfat 9y agoI laughed out loud. I think all of us who were teens back than thought up this idea as something dark and sinister that only we thought up at the time. Myself I would use this trick to prank friends. I never got in trouble in High School so I didn't need it to get out of trouble. Sending love letters to people with fake signatures and doodles was priceless for 15 to 17 year olds.