My wife found a black and white Brother laser MFP at Goodwill for $15 and it has been an absolute game changer for us.
Welcome to the Brotherhood.
Picked up a refurbished laser printer at a garage sale 8 years ago. I still haven’t had to change the ink cartridges
I hope not, given that thing doesn’t have one!
My does. Samsung CLP 315W has like 4 toner cartridges
That was the joke, toner isn’t ink, it’s toner ;-)
I was unaware there was a difference
Ooh, you’re one of today’s lucky 10,000!
Ink is a liquid that is sprayed in tiny dots and dries onto the paper, while toner is a powder that gets attached to the paper with electrostatic forces using lasers, and then fused to it with heat! It’s a super neat process.
It’s so they can print the tracking dots.
For the unaware: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/household-printers-tracking-code/
consumers will not notice any difference in the performance or effectiveness of products equipped with this technology.
I believe they missed this part of the memo
Wow, I had no idea. I thought the joke was needing full ink in an unrelated color. I didn’t know about tracking. I’m sadly unsurprised.
It’s for the purpose of serialization for counterfeit purposes. Also, high end copiers have a device installed called the BDU (Bill Detection Unit) that all scans pass through before being post processed. If the BDU detects a bill being scanned it can error and shut down the whole device until the manufacturer can send someone out to fix it. I used to be one of those people resetting BDUs at schools where a teacher thought it was a good idea to copy images of money for teaching students.
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