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ProfessorLayton ◴[] No.14502387[source]
It would be neat if there was a privacy printing app that added random yellow dots to a document to obscure the info.

Perhaps simply printing a single yellow dot through a few different printers would be enough to accomplish the same thing. Then using the resulting paper for "real" prints.

The more I think about it, this could even be a service. "Preprinted" paper that went though a bunch of printers, each adding their own unique identifier each time, then sold and distributed.

That or just paying cash for a printer.

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brianwawok ◴[] No.14502999[source]
I hate to be the security is not important if you aren't doing anything wrong guy.... but I use a printer to do things like print a picture for my kid to color. What the hack are you doing with you printer to need pre dotted paper?
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1. na85 ◴[] No.14505285[source]
I need pre-dotted paper so that the next Reality Winner or the next Edward Snowden can print documents showing unconstitutional government activity without fear that the dots will give them up.

Why wouldn't I want pre-dotted paper?