- cross-posted to:
- technology@lemmy.world
- opensource@programming.dev
- cross-posted to:
- technology@lemmy.world
- opensource@programming.dev
I stumbled across this link in the comment of another post, and thought it was super promising!
Someone mentioned something about in the US, this would be illegal due to DRM laws - not sure about the specifics of this, but regardless an open source printer seems like something we’ve needed for ages, as printers are something that always seem like way more of a headache then they need to be. It seems like such a simple technology that has existed for quite some time, but they are always such a pain to deal with. (Maybe it’s just my bad luck with printers?)
#Your printer includes tracking codes on every page you print
Including the serial number and where the printer was sold. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printer_tracking_dots
Ah you beat me to it!
Yep.
This is the real reason that an open source printer would get a ton of pushback… it would make it so that law enforcement agencies can’t use the detailed, near invisible, functional serial numbers that snitch on all their users.