this post was submitted on 01 May 2025
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Do anyone know a printer that doesn’t do that?
I'm pretty sure you just earned an entry on some surveillance list lol
I’m already on a couple ones so all good 😊
Black ink only printers can't print in yellow.
Unfortunately there are techniques that work with black and white printers too. I don't know if any have actually been implemented though.
I hadn't heard that. I guess imperceptible grey is just as good.
I can't find it now but IIRC it works differently - not by adding dots but by subtly modulation the laser power. It's more like traditional steganography.
Dot matrix printers don't do it.
That doesn't require tracking when you're the only guy who still uses a dot matrix printer.
https://xkcd.com/1105/
I'm honestly kind of surprised there isn't an even more relevant xkcd comic.