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Brother printers don't do it iirc, and they're the only good brand anyway.
by astrange 2y ago
Brother printers don't do it iirc, and they're the only good brand anyway.
- josephcsible 2y agoI'd say "the least bad brand" rather than "the only good brand" because of this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31860131 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31860131
- SahAssar 2y agoAre you sure? the only two on the EFF site say they do: https://www.eff.org/pages/list-printers-which-do-or-do-not-display-tracking-dots https://www.eff.org/pages/list-printers-which-do-or-do-not-d... and it also says that basically all commercial printers do have tracking dots (last updated in 2017).
- kuschku 2y agoBrother B/W laser don't, Brother CMYK Laser/LED do. Brother CMYK printers only skip printing the MIC if they think they're printing an internal test page in maintenance mode.
- urbandw311er 2y agoThat was a very interesting bit of phraseology there my friend!
- HaZeust 2y agoGuy A: winks winks nudges nudges Guy B: LOOK EVERYONE, "GUY A" WINKED AND NUDGED!!
- urbandw311er 2y agoWas just showing my appreciation in a fun way, dude. No need to be such a dick about it.
- fnordian_slip 2y agoI still don't get it anyway, is the wink something that requires you to be a native speaker or am I just dense?
- redcobra762 2y agoThe commenter shared an oddly specific situation where the dots would not print, the knowledge of which implies something I won’t say, but will leave up to you to decipher.
- fnordian_slip 2y agoThanks, now I get it! I had completely ignored the "if they think" part of that sentence.
- HaZeust 2y agoSo was I, I was just hyperbolizing what it looked like from the outside!
- urbandw311er 2y agoOk then I apologise