You have no idea how deep this rabbit hole goes. Search for EFF printers secret tracking.
Virtually all commercial printers embed an invisible identifier on every page printed.
You have no idea how deep this rabbit hole goes. Search for EFF printers secret tracking.
Virtually all commercial printers embed an invisible identifier on every page printed.
Now I need to see if agentic reverse engineering of printer firmware can actually remove that "feature" for good.
Virtually all color laser printers and copiers.
It was about money anti-counterfeiting.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printer_tracking_dots
There is always a legit reason. It’s just never the only reason.