Tiny Dots Show Where and When You Made Your Print:

San Francisco - A research team led by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) recently broke the code behind tiny tracking dots that some color laser printers secretly hide in every document.
The U.S. Secret Service admitted that the tracking information is part of a deal struck with selected color laser printer manufacturers, ostensibly to identify counterfeiters. However, the nature of the private information encoded in each document was not previously known.
"We've found that the dots from at least one line of printers encode the date and time your document was printed, as well as the serial number of the printer," said EFF Staff Technologist Seth David Schoen.

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this is why i don't own a printer. if you work an in office, they're everywhere and you can just print out your personal stuff there.you can always hit up a kinko's if you're really desperate and drop the dollar it's going to cost to print out an e-ticket or something. printers should be chopped, the ink's highway-robbery and they take up space you could otherwise use for a giant statue of marc wallice.

Printers are the bane of every network and DB admin's life.

I don't own one either. If I must print something non work related, it's still done at the office. But even then I don't use them for personal stuff too often.