do you have or use a laser printer you purchaced with a credit card?

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(30 December 2012, 20:55)Skean Dhude Wrote: There was evidence somewhere. It is basically a serial number in yellow ink printed on the paper. It uniquely identifies the printer which can be traced to the Point of Sale and if you used a card to pay for it, to you.

I've never heard of it being used in a prosecution but you never know if that part of the evidence is suppressed for security reasons.

It is not a real issue in the UK. When was the last time you bought such a thing that the person in the shop opened the box and scanned the serial number?

Never.

They always scan the bar code, and those are product specific, not item specific. The worst that could happen it that using the paper, the manufacturers could say which company it was shipped to, and that company might be able to say which branch it was sent to, then you would have to say dates between and pull the records of all of the people who purchased the printer - some of them may have paid cash so they would have to identify those through CCTV.

These dots do exist, rest assured. It is something that has been in place for years, photocopiers printing in black also do this.

Now, the fools that register their printers online - they are the ones - they dun goofed.