[nygoose]

If you pay cash for the printer and don't register it with the manufacturer, do you figure the software can contact the manufacturer anyway in order to give them your internet address and computer serial number?

[SAJ]

Good question. Point is that you don't know...so why guess, eh? Acquire an old legacy system and see my previous post. Lose the colour cartridge or ribbon, if you have one installed, in favour of all black (any potential ID dots will show up straightaway on your printout (you DO print things out before transmission, yes?), and you can clip these off or white these out.

Mark you, I've no interest in counterfeiting at all, merely in occasionally neatly gutting political filth using that well-known filet knife, the printed word. Nor have I any attention of getting any grief from said filth about doing so.