After a full year of not thinking about printers, the best printer is still whatever random Brother laser printer that’s on sale.

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  • Semi-Hemi-Demigod
    21•9 months ago

    Only color laser printers put those yellow dots on paper. The black and white ones don’t because they can’t: They don’t have yellow toner.

    So get a black and white printer and you’ll be fine.

    • @ReversalHatchery@beehaw.orgEnglish
      6•9 months ago

      I don’t want to be that guy, but if they really want to be tracking prints, black and white printing does not need to make it impossible. There’s other ways to code information.

      • Semi-Hemi-Demigod
        6•9 months ago

        There is, but since color printers are the ones that were used in counterfeiting most black and white printers don’t do that sort of thing. Plus I don’t know how you’d encode that much information in black and white without making it visible on the paper.

        • @jarfil@beehaw.org
          2•9 months ago

          You could encode information as slight “mistakes” in the print. An extra dot here, a missing dot there, some slight “printing error” in some place.

          There could be ways, but as you said, it’s to combat money counterfeiting. Like the Euro constellation detection in scanners, PhotoShop, and printer drivers. (fun fact: it’s quite easy to bypass, not sure why they even bothered… it only stops people who put 0 thought into counterfeiting anyway)