The reason this happens is to prevent counterfeiting money.
From Snopes:
Do Household Printers Leave an Invisible Tracking Code on All Your Printed Documents?
Mostly true.
What’s True
Numerous brands of color laser printers leave coded metadata in barely perceptible yellow dots that can be used to trace a printed document to its source, a feature originally intended as a deterrent to counterfeiting currency with laser printers.
What’s Undetermined
While a majority of laser printers are designed to produce this secret metadata, it is unclear exactly how many printing companies and models employ the technology.
it’s an old silly, hey! you could call it a meme! we used to genocide at low resolution!
looks at ink cart, see’s it’s still got 40% of it’s contents in there - “hey bud there’s still ink-”
“FUCK YOU PAY ME.” – HP Innovation
this is how printers meet crowbars and baseball bats.
Damn it feels good to be a gangster.
Brother printers can lick my salty nuts for exactly this reason.
It is not brothers fault. It was something they were forced to do.
More generally, I have found Brother to be the least worst printer company.
If you are only printing text, a low end brother laser printer is by far your best option.
If you are printing less than a couple of hundred colour pages a year you are better off going to a print shop to do so as it will be cheaper.
If you are printing more than a couple of hundred colour pages a years look into Epson ecotank printers as they are the most cost effective option.
it needs the cyan to barter for black with the fairies of the ink dimension
when the demons come to devour, they will not notice the most clever, they will eat the most ANNOYING
