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.
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.
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.
It’s open source. So even if it had it you could remove it.
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.
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.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printer_tracking_dots
You can’t. They’re microscopic.
It’s only common on color laser printers.
actually that’s only for laser printers - inkjets don’t have tracking dots
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.