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  • Re: suing Canon

    From Andy Burns@21:1/5 to RS Wood on Tue Oct 19 16:01:53 2021
    RS Wood wrote:

    Canon USA has been accused of forcing customers to buy ink cartridges when they
    only want to scan and fax documents

    Maybe they secretly print yellow ID dots on everything they scan? In order to tell who copied them :-P

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  • From RS Wood@21:1/5 to All on Tue Oct 19 14:47:09 2021
    From the «HP, you're next» department:
    Feed: The Register
    Title: Canon makes 'all-in-one' printers that refuse to scan when out of ink, lawsuit claims
    Author: Katyanna Quach
    Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2021 20:15:48 -0400
    Link: https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2021/10/19/canon_lawsuit_ink/

    We can't wait to see the logic gymnastics needed to justify this

    Canon USA has been accused of forcing customers to buy ink cartridges when they only want to scan and fax documents using the manufacturer's so-called All-In-One multi-function printers.…



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  • From =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=CF?=@21:1/5 to Andy Burns on Tue Oct 19 19:03:32 2021
    Andy Burns <[email protected]> wrote:

    RS Wood wrote:

    Canon USA has been accused of forcing customers to buy ink cartridges
    when they only want to scan and fax documents

    Maybe they secretly print yellow ID dots on everything they scan?
    In order to tell who copied them :-P

    But they do do that though, don't they though.
    I've seen 'em with my very own eyes.

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  • From Rich@21:1/5 to !@!.invalid on Tue Oct 19 18:20:33 2021
    � <!@!.invalid> wrote:
    Andy Burns <[email protected]> wrote:

    RS Wood wrote:

    Canon USA has been accused of forcing customers to buy ink cartridges
    when they only want to scan and fax documents

    Maybe they secretly print yellow ID dots on everything they scan?
    In order to tell who copied them :-P

    But they do do that though, don't they though.
    I've seen 'em with my very own eyes.

    Yes, nearly all color printers add them.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_Identification_Code

    The wikipedia page states: "Xerox developed the machine identification
    code 'to assuage fears that their color copiers could be used to
    counterfeit bills'".

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  • From Andy Burns@21:1/5 to All on Tue Oct 19 19:26:04 2021
    Ï wrote:

    Andy Burns wrote:

    Maybe they secretly print yellow ID dots on everything they scan?
    In order to tell who copied them :-P

    But they do do that though, don't they though.
    I've seen 'em with my very own eyes.

    They do it when printing, but I was being a bit mischievous to suggest they also
    do it for scanning ...

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