make a typewriter font looking more realistic in a document?

[Holger]

Hello,
I would like to make a image that contains a typewriter font looking more realistic.
The font itself imitates the original very well. But it looks like laserprint, of course, not like the original typewriter.
So I would like to ask you for help: what can be done in order to let the words (inserted with the typewriter-lookalike-font) looking more realistic as if they were original typewriting?

thanks for help

Holger


http://www.osnoxe.de/passport.jpg

[handrawn]

couple of things come to mind:

if its a ink-ribbon typewriter the text would appear slightly sunken into the paper, if a carbon ribbon it could appear either way [sunken or raised] - both effects you should be able to get with bevel on the text [converted to editable shape I think]

ink ribbon ink tends to be a bit non-uniform in its application unless brand new, so a bit of shade variation, and the odd bit of missing imprint would help

carbon ribbon tends to be rather 'glossy' or 'matt' and again it doesn't always give 100% imprint

[Holger]

Great help, thank you a lot.

[gwpriester]

Have a look here Holger http://www.dafont.com/theme.php?cat=113

[handrawn]

wow - some dodgy typewriters there Gary

[Holger]

Great fonts, indeed. I have nearly all of them collected in the past.
my problem is, that only very little of them come close to the original typewriter they have used in the former GDR for official documents.