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The Printer That Simply Worked (media.mas.to)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Especially the ones that don't let you print B&W if you run out of colour ink,

They need the colour ink to print the tracking dots :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_Identification_Code

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20170607-why-printers-add-secret-tracking-dots

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

With how expensive colour ink is, that's also stupid