this post was submitted on 01 May 2025
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[–] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 124 points 1 month ago (29 children)

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 68 points 1 month ago (3 children)
[–] Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 48 points 1 month 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 16 points 1 month ago

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

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