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| tszaboo:
--- Quote from: tooki on October 27, 2021, 11:55:28 pm --- --- Quote from: tszaboo on October 26, 2021, 09:44:36 pm --- --- 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. --- End quote --- I thought this was just laser printers? "Justified" by concerns about forged documents, money, etc. --- End quote --- 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. --- End quote --- No. In every source I’ve ever read about this, including databases of printer models and how to decode the yellow dots, it’s never shown up in an inkjet, and that’s by skilled people who were looking for them. Presumably because laser toner’s glossy appearance on matte paper is sort of essential to even a low-quality counterfeit. Additionally, it’s easy to sneak those in on a page printer; on a moving-carriage printer, it would be very conspicuous if the printer moved the heads over blank areas of the page, too… --- End quote --- They could add color to black prints in tiny quantities, and form an identifier, that is only visible if you look for it. I'm not saying they do this, but there can be other methods to place an ID in a print. This is not the elephant in the cherry tree situation. And I don't wear tinfoin hat. |
| Siwastaja:
--- Quote from: Zero999 on October 22, 2021, 07:16:29 am ---I would simply return it under warranty. Problem solved. --- End quote --- I think people are missing the importance of this remark. Broken by design products are still broken. It's only more of a reason to return them under warranty. If more people, say even 5% did that, companies would immediately doing shit like this. But people work irrationally, when they understand a company intentionally make a broken product it's kind of accepted. When a product genuinely breaks down, only then people demand for warranty repair. I work the opposite way, if otherwise well designed and good product has some minor flaw causing it to genuinely break down, I might try to fix it on my own, but broken-by-design crap I will instantly return. |
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