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Permalink Reply by Gratefulphish on March 2, 2020 at 2:41pm

What are the specific characteristics you are referring to?  This makes spotting forgeries even harder, as the signatures themselves are real, they have just been recreated and affixed to the item.  Makes you not even want to touch anything without pen indentations.

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Permalink Reply by Steve Cyrkin, Admin on March 3, 2020 at 4:47pm

In this case, they used an averge-quality laser printer so it's easy to tell when you zoom in. The lower image, the crop, will enlarge a bit more.

Zoom in on the background and I think you'll see that the image the autograph is signed on, a 3x5 what looks to be index card, is a low-quality, heavily degraded JPG. Very mushy. The image on the card alone is very low quality. No doubt downloaded from the internet.

The autograph is much crisper than the background image. What identifies the autograph as laser printed is that it's solid black in the heavy black areas, but the areas where the signature is lighter has tiny fine lines of black ink next to fine lines with no ink, all uniform. 

Hope I explained it well but I'm heading out shortly.

Without seeing it in person I can't tell if the signature was laser printed on the card or laser ink transfer was used. But you can identify these if you know what to look for.

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