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Had the experience of poking at tracking dots recently for circumstances I won't share here.

Do y'allself a favor and get a blue LED flashlight and point it at a color print. It's shocking how many are printed. It looks like a spattering of sand across the entire page!

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RachelF 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

I'm surprised there's not been a class action against printer manufacturers for all the extra yellow toner that's been used.

	▲	kmoser a day ago \| parent [-]
		Not to mention failure to accurately print what you sent to the printer. There must be some use case where these "invisible" dots actually undermine the intended output.

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timewizard 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It's not even just for printers anymore.

https://datadotusa.com/technology.htm

	▲	ale42 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		Not exactly the same thing. This is more akin explosive tracers, i.e., lots of small particles that contain some identifying information.

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atVelocet 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Are we talking about laser, color laser and/or ink printers?