A lot of printers will just refuse to work without one of the cartridges fitted... Hell, some refuse to print even if one does still have some have ink in it but the printer thinks it should have run out at the time...
Guess an answer would be inject some black or some type of bright ink into the yellow cartridge so the dots show up easily then hole punch those spots out.
The yellow dot codes are repeated across the page and the Wikipedia article on them says there can be about 150 of the codes on an A4 page. Your document would probably look like Swiss cheese by the time you were done with the hole punch!
I did think of this. The whole punch needs to be big enough to obscure the exact location of the dot but not so big all the information trying pass gets lost. My solution was to repeat whatever message or image multiple times on a single page in different locations. That way if the message gets whole punched it shows up in another location so everything is still readable.
That's just the price of avoiding tracking. Do the procedure, create the hole-punched document and complain to the printer manufacturer about the result :)
Well you would need the whole punch big enough that the exact location of a dot would be obscured. Like, every hole would be not perfectly centred over a dot. If it was centred you could essentially establish what the dot location was prior to cutting and give away what you are trying to not do. So what you suggest would show an approximate location of a dot but not reveal the details.
