• Scrath@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 year ago

    Wasn’t there some way to fingerprint typewriters as well based on yhe exact shape of the letter stencils? I vaguely remember something like that being an actual thing for solving crimes

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      1 year ago

      Each letter in a typewriter isn’t perfectly aligned and will be slightly higher or lower, this variation is distinctive to each typewriter.

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        1 year ago

        So bend the keys afterward, got it thx