Printer tracking dots
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printer-tracking-dots-168-9948513
title:
Printer tracking dots
text:
Printer tracking dots, also known as printer steganography, DocuColor tracking dots, yellow dots, secret dots, or a machine identification code (MIC), is a digital watermark which many color laser printers and copiers produce on every printed page that identifies the specific device that was used to print the document. Developed by Xerox and Canon in the mid-1980s, the existence of these tracking codes became public only in 2004.
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Digital watermark tracking code produced by many printers
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printer_tracking_dots
date created:
2017-06-09T15:20:46Z
date modified:
2024-08-31T00:36:54Z
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