A system for rendering an electronic image representation associated with a software application program is disclosed. The system includes a PC-based host processor programmed to execute the software application program, a temporary storage device associated with the host processor, and a printer interfaced to the host processor. A printer driver routine is operative on the host processor and determines whether the electronic image representation is of a counterfeit document by examining at least a portion of the electronic image representation when stored in the temporary storage device during the course of printing the electronic image representation at the printer.