Application of Adobe® Photoshop® CC 2018 for identifying the source of HP® Color laser printouts
Other Title(s)
تطبيق Adobe® Photoshop® CC 2018 للتعرف على مصدر المطبوعات الليزرية الملونة ل ®HP
Joint Authors
Abd Allah, Asma A.
Salim, Ahmad S.
Source
Arab Journal of Forensic Sciences and Forensic Medicine
Issue
Vol. 1, Issue 9 (30 Jun. 2019), pp.1158-1164, 7 p.
Publisher
Naif Arab University for Security Sciences Arab Society for Forensic Sciences and Forensic Medicine
Publication Date
2019-06-30
Country of Publication
Saudi Arabia
No. of Pages
7
Main Subjects
Abstract EN
In today’s digital world, printer forensics is one of the most important disciplines to reveal the authenticity of printed documents and track criminals.
Digital steganography is an advanced approach to secure color laser printing processes, but it cannot be applied to monochrome laser printers.
Therefore, the identity of the machine used to print color questioned documents provides a valuable means for detecting forgery crimes in digital forensic labs and law enforcement agencies.
Based on this, we introduced a new forensic method that unveils the steganography (hidden information) embedded in color laser printouts via an adopted preset in Adobe® Photoshop® CC 2018.
This forensic tool can be applied as a nondestructive and indirect tool for image processing.
In the present work, printing, scanning, extraction, and measurements for the embedded tracking dots of candidate color laser printouts were conducted.
Thirty-five HP® color laser printers were selected with different and same models with different serial numbers and used to print a hundred color laser printouts.
The defined coded dots matrix patterns that characterized the color laser machines of the HP® brand could clearly be determined.
Therefore, this procedure could successfully be applied to distinguish between various color laser printouts printed by HP® printers with a variant serial number in digital forensic labs with a conclusive accuracy ratio attained to one hundred percent.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Salim, Ahmad S.& Abd Allah, Asma A.. 2019. Application of Adobe® Photoshop® CC 2018 for identifying the source of HP® Color laser printouts. Arab Journal of Forensic Sciences and Forensic Medicine،Vol. 1, no. 9, pp.1158-1164.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1086266
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Salim, Ahmad S.& Abd Allah, Asma A.. Application of Adobe® Photoshop® CC 2018 for identifying the source of HP® Color laser printouts. Arab Journal of Forensic Sciences and Forensic Medicine Vol. 1, no. 9 (2019), pp.1158-1164.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1086266
American Medical Association (AMA)
Salim, Ahmad S.& Abd Allah, Asma A.. Application of Adobe® Photoshop® CC 2018 for identifying the source of HP® Color laser printouts. Arab Journal of Forensic Sciences and Forensic Medicine. 2019. Vol. 1, no. 9, pp.1158-1164.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1086266
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Record ID
BIM-1086266