Be careful, your computer might be lying to you
A technical flaw in certain Xerox multifunction printers can cause the devices to alter numbers and data during the scanning process. This creates significant risks for accuracy in professional documents like blueprints and financial reports.
Imagine handing over a complex set of construction plans to your building contractor, fresh off your fancy $12,000 Xerox WorkCentre scanner/copier/printer (link in German), only to find there were errors in the blueprints that weren’t on the original. Or, imagine passing a set of budget figures to the CFO of your company that weren’t the ones you fed into your WorkCentre, one of Xerox’s midrange color multifunction machines that, like any scanner or photocopier, is expected to reproduce a picture of the document you put in. As anyone who uses one of these devices in an office, school or home knows, whether photographing or digitally scanning a document, the camera doesn’t lie. Or does it?
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