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Posted By: Gilbert Maines

Leon:
Copiers have cartriges in them. One is for black and white and the other is
for color. Sometimes the one that is for color is broken down into individual
cartriges for each color. The black and white one has black in it. The color
ones have pink, blue and yellow in them.

If you have a phony card made by this type of equipment with dots in the
border, the dots will always be made up of those colors (eventhough it looks
white, or off-white). That is, the border dots will be blue, pink and yellow,
probably not much black if any, because black is a bit dark for a border.

It is impossible to produce brown dots with current technology.

The best that can be done is to overlay yellow, pink and blue to produce
the brown. I investigated the card in question at 60x. This gave me a far,
far better view of the dot pattern than Brad's .jpg allowed. There were only
brown dots. Some of these were a light reddish brown and others were a deep brown.

The light reddish brown dots extended throughout the card. I presume that this
was an undercoat. The darker dots comprised the image. No dots were hexagonal,
all were irregularly shaped.

This "undercoat" is why there are dots in the border. I speculate that the undercoat was necessary because the cardstock was grey on both sides.

Edited to add:

I am not sure what you are referring to with regard to the dots in the dark border.