Fun fact: part of the reason your printer needs all toners is because it prints an identification pattern unique to the printer on every document (which uses those colors).

[–] irelephant@programming.dev 69 points 7 months ago (3 children)

I hate modern printers.

[–] Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 49 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Its not even a "modern" printer thing. They've done this since the 80s.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printer_tracking_dots

[–] irelephant@programming.dev 17 points 7 months ago

But now with modern printers they can have email addresses and locations.

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