• Cleaning up your printer

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    ISSUE 21.17 • 2024-04-22

    HARDWARE

    Susan Bradley

    By Susan Bradley

    You’re probably thinking this article is about cleaning paper dust from a printer or fixing a stuck pick-up wheel.

    We all deal with that sort of thing. This is about something you probably don’t think about before heading to your local e-cycler with that old printer — sensitive information.

    That’s right. Printer manufacturers are increasingly adding beacons, tracking, and — worse yet — the subscription ink plans to wring out every bit of profit from a device that increasingly is being used less and less. That’s data, and it’s tied to you. I’ll get back to that.

    Read the full story in our Plus Newsletter (21.17.0, 2024-04-22).