Patent ID: 8737901

Claim:
A counterfeit deterrence system, comprising: a photoreceptor comprising at least one of a photoreceptor belt, a photoreceptor drum, an intermediate transfer belt, or an intermediate transfer drum; a scanner arranged to view a complete, transferable image on the photoreceptor as to be output by a printer to a print medium so as to scan the complete, transferable image and capture a scanned image corresponding to the complete, transferable image; a counterfeit detector that receives the scanned image and compares it to at least one stored criteria from an associated memory to detect counterfeit signatures resulting in at least one corresponding criteria comparison, weights the at least one criteria comparison resulting in at least one corresponding weighted criteria comparison, determines a level of similarity between the scanned image and at least one restricted image stored in the associated memory using the at least one weighted criteria comparison, and determines whether the scanned image includes a restricted image based at least in part on a determined level of similarity relative to a predetermined threshold stored in the associated memory; and a process controller that selectively controls printer processes upon a determination that the scanned image includes a restricted image.