> > Color laser printers output a serial number indicator of some sort by
>> a near-invisible pattern of yellow pixels overlaying the printed
>> image. I imagine it's not 100% reliable but apparently it's been in
>> place for some time.
>
>> It sounds like tin-foil-hat black-helicopter stuff, but I found
>> multiple stories about it online in places like The Standard.
>
>If I caught my printer doing that, I would tell them to fix it. If
>they tried to claim it was a feature, or otherwise refused, I'd return
>it and find a printer that printed what - and nothing but what - it was
>given to print.
Sadly I'm not sure you're going to be able to find a good current
colour printer that doesn't do it :^(
Zane
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