Printers Track You With Yellow Ink

It's because printers need the yellow ink to print the invisible tracking marks which the government can use to track down the printer if it's used in crime This sounds 100% schizo but it's real Printer tracking dots From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Printer tracking dots, also known as printer steganography, DocuColor tracking dots, yellow dots, secret dots, or a machine identification code (MIC), is a digital watermark which many color laser printers and photocopiers produce on every printed page that identifies the specific device that was used to print the document. Developed by Xerox and Canon in the mid-1980s, the existence of these tracking codes became public only in 2004. Contents [hide] 1 History 2 Technical aspects Yellow dots on white paper, produced by color laser printer (enlarged, dot diameter about 0.1 mm)

The meme shows text explaining that printers use yellow ink to add invisible tracking marks that can identify the printer, followed by a screenshot of a Wikipedia article about printer tracking dots. The joke is that the claim sounds paranoid or "schizo," but is actually true, making it useful as a reaction to an unbelievable conspiracy-sounding fact. EN: The meme shows text explaining that printers use yellow ink to add invisible tracking marks that can identify the printer, followed by a screenshot of a Wikipedia article about printer tracking dots. The joke is that the claim sounds paranoid or "schizo," but is actually true, making it useful as a reaction to an unbelievable conspiracy-sounding fact.

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