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Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: Port Angeles, WA or Helm's Deep
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Printers Gone Wild!
My printer just lost its mind for about 5 minutes straight.
Started out in the middle of a nine-page print job with a very mechanical grinding clatter, at which point it stopped printing and its yellow warning light began to blink. After going through the madatory hocus-pocus ("PC Load Letter?!? What the f*ck does that mean?!?"), I started it up again to finish the job. What followed was a schizoid repetition of printing similar pages in rapid succession. One line of gibberish, (new page) four lines of gibberish, (new page) one character of gibberish, (new page) a smiley face, (new page) three lines of gibberish. Lather, rinse, repeat. It wouldn't stop. So I attempted to delete the document from the printer screen. It tried, but failed. And it still wouldn't stop printing. It got kind of creepy...over and over and over again. Sort of Poltergeistian. I half expected it to start printing, "All work and no play makes jack a dull boy." Finally, I was able to successfully delete the print job, and the craziness has ended. So now it's just sitting there...green light twinkling...waiting...
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02-22-2005, 01:05 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2001
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Go in the closet and have your way with a chicken parm hoagie. That should do the trick.
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02-22-2005, 01:06 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: Port Angeles, WA or Helm's Deep
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02-22-2005, 01:07 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2002
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Man, based on the thread title I thought your printer was printing pictures of girls lifting their shirts up and showing bare breasts.
Damn. 
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02-22-2005, 01:11 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: Troy, Mo
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02-22-2005, 01:57 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Cary, NC
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This is what happens when some piece of communication fails (when you heard the grinding), and now the printer has forgotten it was in the middle of printing some cool detailed graphical document and is just dumping the stream of bytes as characters. It's fun watching a printer forget it's doing postscript and print page after page of mostly empty pages except for one little piece of postscript programming embedded somewhere randomly on the page.
Or it could be ghosts.
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02-22-2005, 03:19 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: Le stelle la notte sono grandi e luminose nel cuore profondo del Texas
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"PC Load Letter"? What the fuck does that mean?
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02-22-2005, 03:28 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Berkley, MI: The Hotbed of FOFC!
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And here I thought this would be a thread about former TCU quarterback Casey Printers going on some sort of drunken rampage in the Canadian wilderness after a CFL game.
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02-22-2005, 03:33 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2001
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