Make my Printer cry

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John O

This is, admittedly, a bizarre issue. I need to send a postscript or pcl
file at a Laserjet 2300d, and have it choke. No typos in that sentence. :)

I need to demonstrate what happens when a printer runs out of memory.
Problem is, this HP has 48 MB of RAM, and HP uses some sort of compression
technology. But....I know that PowerPoint can generate some ugly postscript.
It's not a bug, it's a feature, and I'm going to exploit it! Soooo, what
kind of ick can I put into a pres that will generate a massive, ugly,
barely-legal ps file?
 
E

Echo S

gradients
EPS files with gradients
JPGs with gradients
TIFs with gradients

you get the idea.
 
T

TAJ Simmons

I need to demonstrate what happens when a printer runs out of memory.
Why?

TAJ
 
J

John O

I need to demonstrate what happens when a printer runs out of memory.
Why?
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It's part of a printer servicing course. We break it, then the student gets
to see the failure in action. These new HPs are pretty hard to break,
though.

-John
 
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Kathryn Jacobs

Insert two or more pictures that are larger than the slide size. Have one
run over the right side of the slide, the other over the left side. Make
sure major parts of the two pictures overlap. Now, to make sure it dies, add
a slide sized box over top of the pictures with a graphic fill set to 95%
transparent. Should bomb it out - does here. (I know the 4050 is hard to
make die - we have one for just that reason. However, this should do it by
overfilling the memory and the page margins, then trying to put transparent
over top.)

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TAJ Simmons

I love the 'inhouse tech support nitemare' of sending a document to print that contains graphics.

The job enters the print queue in software
The data starts to reach the printer
Someone turns * off * the printer
Someone turns the printer back on
The computer continues sending the data where it left off

Results ..... lots and lots of gobbledeegook over lots and lots of pages

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ad infinitum


I call it 'Art'



TAJ
 
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John O

I could send you a picture of me in my 12th grade Prom dress. ???
No no no, that's not what I meant by "barely legal." :) And I'm sure it
would print just fine, too.

Thatks for all the tips, we'll be trying some of these today. I like the
idea of a busted ps file, just open up a good one and replace something that
looks important with some text from a help file. That should do it.

-John
 
M

Mike M.

Combine that with some of the pics of me 24 hours after Sea Worms and I
think that should do it. <g> I sure know that it made me overflow. <gag>
 
J

Jan Il

ROFL!

Or better yet, of Reilly in your 12th grade Prom dress!

PhotoShop. Use the Power wisely.
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LOL!

Hmm..come to think of it, wonder what he would look like in Pepto Bismol
Pink and Chartreuse??
 
J

Jan Il

Combine that with some of the pics of me 24 hours after Sea Worms and I
think that should do it. <g> I sure know that it made me overflow.
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<gag>

Well...I think we can get a very good idea of how you looked in Pepto Bismol
 
J

Jan Il

Hmm..come to think of it, wonder what he would look like in Pepto Bismol
Careful. We don't want Mikey to overflow again.
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Ah..good thinking. He's been through enough overflows.....or was that
outflows...???
 
J

Jan Il

Steve Rindsberg said:
Not "or". "And".

GIGO, so to speak.
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LOL! Well...actually I was thinking along the lines of the a drain pipe
'outflow'. But, yeah....I can see where it would apply in the end results
as well. ;-)

Poor Mikey....
 
J

Jan Il

John O said:
This is, admittedly, a bizarre issue. I need to send a postscript or pcl
file at a Laserjet 2300d, and have it choke. No typos in that sentence. :)

I need to demonstrate what happens when a printer runs out of memory.
Problem is, this HP has 48 MB of RAM, and HP uses some sort of compression
technology. But....I know that PowerPoint can generate some ugly postscript.
It's not a bug, it's a feature, and I'm going to exploit it! Soooo, what
kind of ick can I put into a pres that will generate a massive, ugly,
barely-legal ps file?
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John, please post back with the key to what worked best in giving your
printer the hissy fit you were after. I would very much like to know what it
took to get this effect. Other than the common @#$%!^=&( )~o~(,)_+<`;}} from
forgetting to change printer settings or selections (at work, where I have 5
printer drivers), I have never had any of the problems you are talking
about. Just my curious again. ;-)

Jan :)
 
M

Mike M.

Hey! Careful about that GIGO. One persons garbage is another person
delicacy. The meal that keeps on giving. :-O
 
J

Jan Il

Steve Rindsberg said:
Poor Mikey? Think of the .. Um .. GI.

Reminds me of a scene in Hitchhiker's Guide. Ford Prefect is explaining that
going into hyperspace is rather unpleasant, something like being drunk.

"Being drunk? What's so unpleasant about that" asks Arthur Dent.

"Ask the water" says Ford.
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Hmmm...an enlightening thought, that. Life with a death wish. And then along
comes Mikey....and hope springs eternal... (hee.. hee..hee)
 
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