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Re:List of Printers Which Do or Do Not Display Tracking Dots by Paul-ish on Wednesday June 07, 2017 @01:10PM (#14508048)
The difficulty in this approach is that you have an extremely large number of classes. Each printer is its own class. Typically, as the number of classes goes up, accuracy goes done. That isn't to say it isn't possible, but it would require a lot of custom hacks to any learning algorithm.

Also to convince anyone that it works, you would need to test it out on an extremely large number of printers, including ones of the same model. In practice that could be expensive.

Re:List of Printers Which Do or Do Not Display Tracking Dots by kpil on Wednesday June 07, 2017 @01:33PM (#14508255)
Nah, it's not feasible to know the printer model if you want to identify a laserprinted dollar.

A few variants at most.