Coupons and watermarks

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Al Krismer

Hello,

I want to use a page on my website for coupons which people
can use. I don't mind if they print as many coupons out as
they want to, but I am concerned that the coupons might be
mass copied on a color copier. Is there a way of putting a
watermark or some id so I know they were printed from the
website rather than copied?

Thanks

Al
 
Create a .pdf coupon.

Have no idea how you would implement a watermark though.

How much are the coupons worth? A decent color copy at Kinko's costs a buck or so...so I wonder how many would really be mass copied.

If they were really valuable I suppose you could write a script to print a unique number on each coupon then cross match it against a db of people that signed up to get a coupon or something complicated like that.


| Hello,
|
| I want to use a page on my website for coupons which people
| can use. I don't mind if they print as many coupons out as
| they want to, but I am concerned that the coupons might be
| mass copied on a color copier. Is there a way of putting a
| watermark or some id so I know they were printed from the
| website rather than copied?
|
| Thanks
|
| Al
 
Al Krismer said:
Hello,

I want to use a page on my website for coupons which people
can use. I don't mind if they print as many coupons out as
they want to, but I am concerned that the coupons might be
mass copied on a color copier. Is there a way of putting a
watermark or some id so I know they were printed from the
website rather than copied?
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Many retailers refuse to accept internet coupons for that very reason. I
would use a server-side script to create unique coupons with a serial
number -- although those could conceivably be counterfieted as well.
 
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