This happened to me at work the other day

[giza]

...so I made my own demotivator:



Enjoy!

Comments

[bigtig.livejournal.com]

My fave printer message is still: "LP0 ON FIRE"

[wildw0lf.livejournal.com]

Never saw that message. What printer model generated this?

[giza.livejournal.com]

None. It was a log message from early versions of Linux's LPT driver.

[zorinlynx.livejournal.com]

Holy shit a LaserJet 4, I thought we were the only ones still using those things. :)

They sure are built like tanks!

[giza.livejournal.com]

I'm amazed you recognized the printer!

[zorinlynx.livejournal.com]

Yep, we still have three of them in use here in low volume printing areas.

They're built like tanks and never die.

The only reason they're in low volume areas is their CPUs take too long to rasterize most postscript generated these days. ;)

[simbab.livejournal.com]

The only reason they're in low volume areas is their CPUs take too long to rasterize most postscript generated these days. ;)

Heh, I have a (3-year-old) LaserJet 1320 at home, and it it's pretty slow to start up...although they claim 20 ppm. It has a 133 MHz SPARC CPU if I recall correctly...

I think it only has PostScript emulation though, and I believe it's much faster if you feed it PCL...

[zorinlynx.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure I understand the difference between "emulating" postscript and just "interpreting it".

Postscript is just a language. To rasterize postscript you basically "execute" it just as you would any other program. Unless "non-emulated" postscript printers have a dedicated chip to exec the postscript, versus software running on a general purpose CPU of some sort.

Anyone who can clear this up? :)

[simbab.livejournal.com]

Perhaps it is translating the PostScript into either PCL or some kind of internal bytecode or language?

[wildw0lf.livejournal.com]

It's usually the low memory too in those printers that doesn't help things either.

[nidonocu.livejournal.com]

Used to be one of those at my old school!

And in fact, if I remember right. That message means it wants you to load Letter paper (because the computer has requested it) and some other size is currently in the feed tray. Normally one presses OK and it just prints it anyway. o.O

[wildw0lf.livejournal.com]

I just saw this comment after I posted mine. We still have a handful of those kicking around. Man, those were built like tanks, they just don't die. The 4m's are maybe 12-15 years old now. Try getting that out of a new laser printer today.

[fordarkness.livejournal.com]

i have one in my forensic lab. XD apparently some other division was using it and they were planning on taking it when they switched floors, but my coworker not-so-kindly informed them that it belonged to us so we snagged it. i hooked it up to our mini-network and the damn thing went chugging away. it's so old, it's discoloured.

[jonesybunny.livejournal.com]

Such good nostalgia :)

Do you have that in a larger size?

[giza.livejournal.com]

Yes. Click on the picture to go to Flickr, then click on the "all sizes" link at the top of the picture.

I also have the original picture (http://www.flickr.com/photos/dmuth/872079221/) up there.

[felix-carni.livejournal.com]

*sigh* All too familiar. We get those messages all the time when you americans mail us documents :P

[nius.livejournal.com]

I got so sick of the "load A4" messages when I worked for Koyo...

[wildw0lf.livejournal.com]

Sweet! Nice. A Laserjet 4m/5m with the reference from Office Space. Priceless!

[ex-tjcoyote112.livejournal.com]

Bleah, I always get that message when I want to print something in a hurry (darn I typed furry and had to correct it!) and there's junk in front of the printer.

Corner of my cluttered office (http://www.tjcoyote.com/misc/pc-load-letter.jpg)

[xshengx.livejournal.com]

PC ANGRY
PC KILL
:P

[bushrat.livejournal.com]

OMG...it's an HP LaserJet 4! That printer is 15 years old now! I also worked with one just this week! *boggles massively* What are the chances?!

What it means is that you are either out of paper, or have the wrong size paper loaded...problem solved! I won't charge you anything for my technical help now, because you are also furry like me and you showed me your Pokemans as well ;> You has a very nice Mudkips!