Dymo: Difference between revisions - Consumer_Action

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{{InfoboxCompany|Name=Dymo|Type=Subsidiary|Founded=1958|Industry=Electronics|Official Website=https://www.dymo.com/|Logo=DYMO logo.svg.png}}

[[Dymo|Dymo Corporation]] is an American manufacturing company of handheld label printers and thermal-transfer printing tape as accessory, embossing tape label makers, and other printers such as CD and DVD labelers and durable medical equipment.

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The Dymo LabelWriter 550 Turbo and other 500 series label printers have introduced a controversial feature: [[DRM]] (Digital Rights Management) via RFID tags in their consumables.<ref>https://appleinsider.com/articles/22/02/21/if-you-thought-printer-cartridge-drm-was-bad-dymo-is-forcing-users-to-buy-rfid-paper</ref><ref>https://walledculture.org/drm-on-paper-shows-why-anti-circumvention-laws-are-copyrights-biggest-blunder/</ref> Affected printers come with "Automatic Label Recognition™", a marketing term that translates to DRM implementation in thermal labels. This system restricts users to purchasing only Dymo-branded labels, potentially increasing costs and limiting consumer choice. This move has sparked frustration among users and prompted the hacking community to develop workarounds.<ref>https://hackaday.com/2022/03/30/freedmo-gets-rid-of-dymo-label-printer-drm/</ref>

In response to this, an open-source solution to remove the restrictions has been developed.<ref>~~<nowiki>~~https://github.com/free-dmo/free-dmo-stm32~~</nowiki>~~</ref>

In response to this, an open-source solution to remove the restrictions has been developed.<ref>[https://github.com/free-dmo/free-dmo-stm32 DRM workaround]</ref>

==References==

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 [[Dymo|Dymo Corporation]] is an American manufacturing company of handheld label printers and thermal-transfer printing tape as accessory, embossing tape label makers, and other printers such as CD and DVD labelers and durable medical equipment.
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 The Dymo LabelWriter 550 Turbo and other 500 series label printers have introduced a controversial feature: [[DRM]] (Digital Rights Management) via RFID tags in their consumables.<ref>https://appleinsider.com/articles/22/02/21/if-you-thought-printer-cartridge-drm-was-bad-dymo-is-forcing-users-to-buy-rfid-paper</ref><ref>https://walledculture.org/drm-on-paper-shows-why-anti-circumvention-laws-are-copyrights-biggest-blunder/</ref> Affected printers come with "Automatic Label Recognition™", a marketing term that translates to DRM implementation in thermal labels. This system restricts users to purchasing only Dymo-branded labels, potentially increasing costs and limiting consumer choice. This move has sparked frustration among users and prompted the hacking community to develop workarounds.<ref>https://hackaday.com/2022/03/30/freedmo-gets-rid-of-dymo-label-printer-drm/</ref>
-In response to this, an open-source solution to remove the restrictions has been developed.<ref><nowiki>https://github.com/free-dmo/free-dmo-stm32</nowiki></ref>
+In response to this, an open-source solution to remove the restrictions has been developed.<ref>[https://github.com/free-dmo/free-dmo-stm32 DRM workaround]</ref>
 ==References==