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[-] Goretantath@lemmy.world 14 points 3 days ago

Unless this thing forgoes that stupid print code that puts yellow dots on each page to identify you when you print stuff like every other printer out there, it isn't worth the hassle.

[-] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 14 points 3 days ago

It's open source. So even if it had it you could remove it.

[-] Acamon@lemmy.world 13 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

What's this? I've never seen yellow dots on stuff I print

Edit: looked it up, intresting and definitely a bit disturbing from a privacy perspective. Particularly that it was kept secret until 2004.

[-] Dudewitbow@lemmy.zip 10 points 3 days ago

theyre microscopic. theyre typically used to track printers doing illegal stuff (e.g counterfeiting) and leak tracking if someone when to scan some document and post it somewhere it shouldnt be. Of course, this is antithetical to privacy. The yellow dots are microscopic throughout the page.

[-] Vonmiir@lemmy.zip 4 points 3 days ago

You can’t. They’re microscopic.

[-] Warl0k3@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

It's only common on color laser printers.

[-] zeezee@slrpnk.net 6 points 3 days ago

actually that's only for laser printers - inkjets don't have tracking dots

[-] TragicNotCute@lemmy.world 12 points 3 days ago

This isn’t entirely correct.

https://office-watch.com/2017/secret-printer-tracking-dots/

Generally they are not found in lower end budget inkjets, but are found in higher end ones.

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