Welcome • User Guide
ToS • Privacy • Canary
Donate • Bugs • License

©2025 Poal.co

1.4K

Those people are going to be disappointed. Dymo’s latest generation of desktop label printers use RFID chips to authenticate the labels that Dymo’s customers put in their printers. This lets Dymo’s products distinguish between Dymo’s official labels and third-party consumables. That way, the printers can force their owners to conduct themselves in the ways that serve the interests of Dymo’s corporate owners - even when that is to the owners’ own detriment.

> Those people are going to be disappointed. Dymo’s latest generation of desktop label printers use RFID chips to authenticate the labels that Dymo’s customers put in their printers. This lets Dymo’s products distinguish between Dymo’s official labels and third-party consumables. That way, the printers can force their owners to conduct themselves in the ways that serve the interests of Dymo’s corporate owners - even when that is to the owners’ own detriment.

(post is archived)

[–] • 5 pts

It’s because their label paper sucks ass and is outperformed even by generic label paper. Run the printer too long in one sitting and the heat will cause the edges of the labels to curl upward as they come off the spool, which will then roll into a firm sticky mess in an area that isn’t easily accessible for cleaning.

[–] • 0 pt

package discussing labels like my girlfriend discusses clothing. I guess that sometimes everything in the world does make sense for a brief second.

[–] • 2 pts

Well then FUCK DYMO!!

Just don't buy their junk printers.

[–] [deleted] • 1 pt

There’s a good reason for that: U.S. Copyright law gives Dymo a powerful tool to intimidate commercial rivals who help us escape from label-jail. Section 1201 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act exposes those rivals to $500,000 in fines and a five-year prison sentence for trafficking in tools that bypass an “access control” for a copyrighted work, like the firmware on a Dymo printer.

Well, there's this thing called "doing it anyway" and "not getting caught." It's that "not getting caught" part that trips up most people... because they all want the glory of being the one who dunnit.

[–] • 0 pt

"Lol" -China

[–] • 0 pt

exactly, this gives china and other bug countries an economic advantage in general in literally all areas like adhering to something simple like corps buying windows legit etc.

[–] • 1 pt

It sounds like dymo just gave a huge incentive for a competitor to emerge and destroy them.

[–] • 1 pt

"Using third-party paper could the printer!"