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It could theoretically effect font rendering, but I really doubt it. It's more likely the printer driver have encoded information about the gpu into the yellow
by phire 4y ago
It could theoretically effect font rendering, but I really doubt it.
It's more likely the printer driver have encoded information about the gpu into the yellow microdots [1] that many color printers use to trace pages.
But if they have microdots, then they really should have more information.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_Identification_Code https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_Identification_Code
- cm2187 4y agoWhat about B&W laser printers?
- phire 4y agoThey typically don't do watermarking. The whole justification was stopping the counterfitting of currency, since color printers can produce quite good results for near zero effort. And you can't really use a b&w laser to print convincing notes.
- lupire 4y agoBut now the gov wants to spy more, so they should have light grey tracking dots.
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- codedokode 4y agoThey can use black microdots, I guess? Or some kind of stenography in the printed image.