People have been saying the “Brother” brand of printers don’t have them, but I cannot confirm this since I never used them, nor do I have ways to detect yellow dots.
There are also programs that would add random yellow dots before you print it, so the yellot dot tracking would become useless since its flooded with extra yellot dots.
Which printers don’t leave dots?
The EFF was attempting to keep track of this, but through FOIA requests they learned that every major brand uses dots.
People have been saying the “Brother” brand of printers don’t have them, but I cannot confirm this since I never used them, nor do I have ways to detect yellow dots.
There are also programs that would add random yellow dots before you print it, so the yellot dot tracking would become useless since its flooded with extra yellot dots.
This would only work if you only send 1 page. Otherwise, they can likely compare the two and see where the dots are the same.
Dot matrix doesn’t have the yellow ID dots, but it is just dots.
Monochrome ones.