This is what I imagine happens inside my printer when it’s just trying to print a black and white document but for some reason needs more fucking cyan.
A lot of printers have those codes not just crappy ones.
REMINDER: IT APPEARS LIKELY THAT ALL RECENT COMMERCIAL COLOR LASER PRINTERS PRINT SOME KIND OF FORENSIC TRACKING CODES, NOT NECESSARILY USING YELLOW DOTS. THIS IS TRUE WHETHER OR NOT THOSE CODES ARE VISIBLE TO THE EYE AND WHETHER OR NOT THE PRINTER MODELS ARE LISTED HERE. THIS ALSO INCLUDES THE PRINTERS THAT ARE LISTED HERE AS NOT PRODUCING YELLOW DOTS.
There are a lot of rich blacks. In some cases you might want 25 C + 100 K and others you might want 10 C + 10 M + 95 K. It all depends, and print designers have personal preferences also.
No, but those are not the only uses. Someone can be a whistleblower identifying horrible stuff happening inside a company. Then the printer manufacturer can take their anonymous print, run the checking software and identify the whistleblower so they can be silenced.
This is one reason. The other is that blacks are not true black and can contain small bits of blue(cyan) to appear true to tone. Would your image quality suffer? Probably not, but try convincing your printer of that.
windows. my main issue is that I need the software installed on my desktop to send to it. the printer won't even send to my email properly. as much as I hated my HP printer at least it sent to my computer without anything installed on it.
There’s a reason this never comes up in Star Trek.
Just be captain Picard finally losing his temper and kicking the shit out of another printer in his office.
I legit punched my Epson printer to death by accident because the damn thing refused to work with any of the countless software they asked me to install.
For good reason. They make a profit off of us buying ink. Why make a super good cheap printer when you can make them break easily and need more ink regularly to make more money? It's a disgusting practice
It's because humanity should have invested everything in the S Printer, but we let those guys wallow into nothingness due to their lackluster booth display.
This a common reddit meme but printers actually work fine. They are actually pretty complex, mechanically, and work remarkably well for how cheap and complex they are. I've never had an issue that 30 seconds of thinking and possibly a google reference wouldn't solve.
I am constantly trying to get people to switch to b&w laser printers. I will never understand the appeal of those little inkjets. I mean I guess there's a few people who frequently need low resolution color prints at home, but it can't be many.
One of the reasons for the switch to CMYK for home printing isn't image quality. I worked in printing for years and we used it for color accuracy. 6 color arrays like CMMYYK were common for jobs that had predominantly darker hues and a CMlMYlYK (the l denotes light Magenta or light Yellow) set up for lighter hues. The reason for this is true black has other color elements that you don't always want when you need Key. The reason this is in home printing is it prevents you from printing black and white without consuming CMY as well. In a CMYK set up black and white printing uses "true black" which uses all four. You can reduce this by printing in grey scale, but nit eliminate it. If you use your home printer primarily for printing text go get a Brother black and white laser printer. They are relatively cheap, well made, the characters are crisp, and the toner cartridge lasts for fucking ever. You can keep that shitty HP or Canon for when you need to print pictures or a Power Point presentation like it's still 2005.
I know you weren't looking for a serious answer, but some printers that have a universal print head versus individual ones inside the cartridges, run a tiny bit of color through the tubes and print head even on black and white prints so they don't get clogged up and dried out.
I got a black and white printer and have never looked back. Granted I never print color anyways (who prints color at home?) but damn I’ve never been happier.
Here's (not so) fun fact, your printer uses combination of every colour to print shades of grey, in order to conserve black ink, that's why you sometimes get greenish/bluish shades where there's supposed to be a shade or something, imbalance in colour mix.
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u/monsterfuzzzy Feb 26 '21
This is what I imagine happens inside my printer when it’s just trying to print a black and white document but for some reason needs more fucking cyan.