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by tyingq 1912 days ago
Heh. I have a b/w Brother Laser that cannot do color. I guess it would have to use the trickier methods described at the end of the post.
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As I understand it, the original rationale for the tracking dots was the fear of counterfeiting, which may be less of an issue with black and white laser printers. That doesn't mean that I can say with any consequence that your printer doesn't have any tracking mechanism, but it might not.
Don't confuse reason and excuse

Concern about counterfeiting just served as a usefully palatable justification for introducing the tracking technologies. After that, it's easy. All you have to do is let some small to medium counterfeiters continue to operate so the justification continues to look reasonable. Heck you can even do your more or less best to try to catch them all, since you can be confident you won't ever completely succeed

The worst damage crime does isn't direct. The real damage is the PR cover it provides for government repression