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[–] 50 points 10 months ago (7 children)

It's because it has to print a unique watermark by federal law.Β 

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  • [–] 31 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    Yep. Quit screwing around with color inkjet and get a cheap B&W toner machine.

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  • [–] 18 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    I thought yellow was mainly used for that, and cyan was used to enrich/enhance the deepness of the black or something. I remember something about blues being combined with black ink for that reason at least. Either way, screw inkjets, all my homies use laser.

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago

    From everything that I've heard and seen, you are correct.

    The hidden dot pattern is yellow - It's the easiest color to hide. I've always heard that cyan is used to improve the black too.

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  • [–] 21 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    I had an all in one a decade ago (think epson?).

    I couldn't scan a document because it was low on some color.

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  • [–] 11 points 10 months ago

    Never buying an inkjet again. POS.

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  • [–] 8 points 10 months ago

    Never gets old, sadly

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  • [–] 7 points 10 months ago

    Inserts cyan-ide capsule to printer

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago

    I so hope that open source printer is successful. It may even be enough to convince me to choose to own a printer.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago

    I love this.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago

    "Use black ink only"

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago*

    I returned my brother laser printer to Costco in 2019. I will never buy a printer ever again.

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