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New Twist to Printer Ink Refill Scam
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richard.cs:

--- Quote from: tszaboo on October 26, 2021, 09:29:49 am ---Not just that. Color printers have been secretly printing yellow dots on B/W prints for some time now. Supposedly, so they can ID your printer if you send a letter with a bomb threat or something like that. So your color printer will not print B/W if your color cartridge is not there or empty.

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I thought this was just laser printers? "Justified" by concerns about forged documents, money, etc.
tooki:

--- Quote from: tszaboo on October 26, 2021, 09:29:49 am ---
--- Quote from: xrunner on October 22, 2021, 12:39:01 am ---
--- Quote from: jonovid on October 21, 2021, 06:06:47 pm ---IMO this is a new twist printer ink refill scam.

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I used to have ink jet before I got frustrated with colors drying out. But, I remember that you could buy off-brand carts with the chip so they would work fine. Are you saying that this little trick makes you have to buy the name brand ink carts because they have a new scam that can't be replicated in after market ink carts?

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Not just that. Color printers have been secretly printing yellow dots on B/W prints for some time now. Supposedly, so they can ID your printer if you send a letter with a bomb threat or something like that. So your color printer will not print B/W if your color cartridge is not there or empty.

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Only on color lasers, not inkjets.
cybermaus:

--- Quote from: tszaboo on October 26, 2021, 09:29:49 am ---Not just that. Color printers have been secretly printing yellow dots on B/W prints for some time now. Supposedly, so they can ID your printer if you send a letter with a bomb threat or something like that.
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Note to self: Buy a BW laser printer in case I ever need to organise a revolution.
tszaboo:

--- Quote from: richard.cs on October 26, 2021, 10:17:06 am ---
--- Quote from: tszaboo on October 26, 2021, 09:29:49 am ---Not just that. Color printers have been secretly printing yellow dots on B/W prints for some time now. Supposedly, so they can ID your printer if you send a letter with a bomb threat or something like that. So your color printer will not print B/W if your color cartridge is not there or empty.

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I thought this was just laser printers? "Justified" by concerns about forged documents, money, etc.

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Maybe the yellow dots is only for laser. For the inkjet, we may just lack the evidence, or widely available knowledge of it, I wouldn't be surprised there was still something printed on it.
duckduck:

--- Quote from: jonovid on October 21, 2021, 06:06:47 pm ---Canon DISABLES scanner when ink runs out. Who owns this scanner

this video deserves more interest.  :o
when independent functional systems stop working just because one part is out of ink. so international corporations can sell more ink.
just knowing that this is happening is troubling
IMO this is a new twist printer ink refill scam.
now just imagine if your Internet of things shutdown in sympathy, for your printer? or its it their printer!
or your operating system had sympathy for the printer been out of ink, so stopped working!  >:D
were will this type of BS end?

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Yes, that is BS. I bought an HP inkjet for light home use. It actually stopped working because I refused to connect it to the internet. I returned it. I refuse to buy anything else HP (that isn't test equipment ;-P ).
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