DocuColor Tracking Dot Decoding Guide(w2.eff.org) |
DocuColor Tracking Dot Decoding Guide(w2.eff.org) |
Or does it use the regular ink which is provided by the printer's cartridge? If this is the case, isn't a possible defense to just not buy new color cartridges? At least for me, I have to print colored documents at most every 3 months. Unfortunately the color cartridges dries out after about 6 months which means I would have to pay $20 to print less then 10 pages. Thus, I only buy the black ones and when I have to print something in color, I just put it on a USB stick and print it at work (I am allowed to do that in moderate amounts) or go to a shop with printing services and pay $1 for those documents.
Since my color cartridges are almost two years old (and still full according to my printer), though I cannot print a single page, am I still "affected" by those tracking dots?
Anecdotally mine occasionally adds garbage to the page, I don't know if this is for tracking or if it's just an artifact of the process, but I haven't really been able to trust a printer for years.
Anecdotally, my yellow always runs out earlier than my C and M cartridges on my home printer, and I mostly print monochrome (these days it's really just character sheets and other stuff for tabletop RPGs that I run)
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