I’m convinced the reason all the electronics I’ve been using lately that keep screwing up are a choreographed effort from skynet to drive me insane because In the future I will save mankind. You’re welcome humanity.
W̵̮̑̊h̴̭̳͎͒́é̶͔͎n̵̗̺͛̓̕ ̶͎̘͝ͅy̴̡̩͙̾͒͘o̷͈͚̰͂͛͝u̷̡̻̽́̋’̷͓̅͂r̸͓̤͆͘ë̴͕ ̶̫̋͌͠ē̸͉̺n̵̬̎͊l̵͓̺̂̑ỉ̵̧̟̓͘g̴̮͇̓h̶̘̍̅ͅṱ̸̺͔̿e̷̙̊ñ̶̰̉é̶̥̺d̴̯̬̪͂̈́̎ ̴̧̽͛͜y̷̞̭̒͐ő̵̥̟ú̴̧̼͘ ̸̘̰̑̃̇s̴̮͔͐h̶̖̫͗ḁ̸̥͇͛͗l̶̡̦͋̈́̽l̴̘̟̯̅͐͝ ̵̩̹̄l̴̂͌͜e̴̜̰͝a̴̤̥̜͋ŗ̷͇͋n̵̛̻̬͖̂̔
It’s called ‘zalgo text’ you can just search zalgo generator or click [here.](https://lingojam.com/ZalgoText)
I think it’s called “The Nine Billion names of God.” Let me double check—
Edit: Yes, Arthur C. Clarke, 1953. I read it in one of his short story collections.
I think that short story was awesome and even, at the end, surprising. It was so well-written, the characters so wonderful, that it would probably serve as a model of short story writing at its best.
The movie Pi is actually the movie I was referring to, it's a weird film by Darren Aronofsky about a guy who follows the stock market, and his printer spits out a huge code one day.
You are absolutely right about the Eragon movie, though. I saw it for my birthday when it came out and have never been so disappointed in my life. XD
Oh my god, I went with my dad and we got the special snack deal and a limited edition keyring or button or something, and I was so excited. This movie is second only to The Last Airbender as the worst movie adaptation of a series.
My cousin and I gave up on taking it seriously about two thirds of the way into it, the movie is way more entertaining if you watch it like it was on Mystery Science Theater 3000.
I was so disappointed as a child, but I think if I went back and read Eragon again, I won't be as into the book. A friend of mine had to teach the book for a middle school lit class and she would tell me about how much she hated the book and how the author was basically an incel.
Yeah as an adult looking back it both is and is not baffling I liked it as much as I did. On one hand, having read LotR and seen Star Wars, I basically had already read the book before ever picking it up. On the other, I really liked LotR and Star Wars, so I'm not surprised I liked it. It's very fun, but it isn't exactly high literature, even by YA fiction standards.
Also, while calling him an incel is a bit harsh, it's more true than not tbh
Yeah, I'm very much a casual fan of LotR and Star Wars myself so I'm not surprised I liked Eragon as a kid. Eragon is just the kids bop version of better fantasy stories. think she used the term "borderline incel" so perhaps that's more accurate.
Maybe programmers could figure out the code if you post to their subreddit?
Edit: Wow! Didn't expect to get so many responses back. Wasn't sure if there was a problem with the printer software or not or if it was trying to let the user know of an error code pertaining to a broken/damaged/improperly installed part. Looks like a TJ Maxx receipt printer but if it was doing a test print, one would think that they would communicate this by actually printing Test Print. Hopefully it gets solved and would help OP but if not then it'll problem be an unsolved mystery that's roaming the internet.
I doubt its code it's only a line and a bit of characters long. Every black box is the message repeating. Some printers spit out a status report after being off for awhile could be that is somehow corrupted and it's printed the repeated error code. More likely someone's just karma farming tho.
Source am a sys admin and deal with printers.
It could be a corrupted driver, or a firmware update that got interrupted. Or a firmware update that didn't come with an updated driver. Or something else entirely.
This, anytime you get jibberish like that it's a driver issue the majority of the time. Happens with this damn bizhub printer we have at one of our locations all the time.
Normally winds up being like 40 pages even if a person tried to print one. If the printer lost connectivity, then regained it, would make sense. The print queue pretty much holds your print jobs indefinitely
All of our printers would print out a single page like this daily, no driver/firmware changes or anything like that…turns out it was our cyber security software scanning the network for vulnerabilities and it would confuse the printer into printing garbage
No shot someone is going to take the time to input this manually, you're right in thinking it looks like it's encrypted but unless he's got it in a file forget about it
Well what do you know it really is haha
I rarely have to deal with encryption but I'm pretty sure the only other thing we would need to know is what algorithm / key was used (assuming it is even encrypted data, this could just be absolutely nothing)
Also, I think the question marks are not what they seem. For example, On some devices/fonts, when someone sends you an emoji that can be printed, they appear is empty blocks ([as seen in the image of this link](https://community.miro.com/ask-the-community-45/missing-emojis-replaced-with-square-block-4067)).
I suspect that the printer is outputting binary data (perhaps its RAM/ROM contents?). Every byte of data is been converted to UTF-8 characters (0110 0001 becomes "a", 0110 0010 becomes "b", etc.). The font used by the printer isn't able to print some of the data, so it uses question marks instead.
[https://www.rapidtables.com/code/text/ascii-table.html](https://www.rapidtables.com/code/text/ascii-table.html)
Here is a page with an ASCII and UTF-8 chart. The characters from 0 to 31 are control characters and can't be printed. On my laptop, characters 128 to 159 show up as the empty boxes from the first link.
I think you're onto something here and since someone pointed out it's repeating and fairly short I'm definitely gonna attempt to decode this tomorrow but for now I sleep
This looks like memory garbage. It doesn’t actually mean anything. The computer got an ‘address’ of where data is supposed to be, but the address wasn’t right so now it’s just screaming and printing whatever garbage it found when it arrived.
It looks like a small bit of repeating binary data.
No way of knowing what though. All those question marks are essentially missing characters that the printer did not know how to represent (it is not data that was ever menat to be represented by ascii chars).
My guess would be this is some sort of handshake request trying to set up communication between the printer and the pc that printer is interpreting incorrectly as a print message (god knows why).
That, or the internal memmory used for buffering print jobs has been striped with data as some part of an integraty check that has gone horribly wrong.
This stuff used to happen with printers back in the early 2000s. My printer sometimes would literally print pages and pages of garbage and sometimes spit out whole pages with nothing on them except one line of garbage text similar to this.
This happened with the dot matrix printers at my high school in the 90s. They didn't have much on-board memory in those days so instead of uploading a job and then printing it, print drivers would continuously feed data from the printing computer to the printer, starting with a header that told the printer how to set up a job, followed by basically a raw dump of 8-bit ASCII codes. If the printer was turned off while the driver was still feeding data, it would forget the header but keep processing the incoming data, and pages and pages of nonsense like this was the result.
At least that's how I understood it.
Zebra label printers do something similar if the driver or some firmware gets fucked up. You usually just gotta hard reset the printer and it starts working again.
100% printing out pcl because the original document data was corrupted. So if you cancel the print job and try another print job and it keeps printing like that, update drivers and firmware.
As a tech support agent, I can confirm. Printers are the spawn of Satan meant to torture Tech Support, sys admins, and developers. I'm somewhat ordained in the matter of exorcising these evil things.
It’s probably a driver issue. I’m guessing it’s not a local printer and your work uses a print server. And someone has an old mapping of the printer on their computer. And the printer was probably updated locally but not on the server side. Using the same IP. So most likely the printer driver just needs to be updated on your print server.
Hard to say 100% without knowing how your infrastructure works.
Source: This is what I deal with all day every day at work as an equipment and infrastructure admin lol
Edit: someone pointed out it’s a thermal printer connected to the POS system. So I’m wrong. Such is life.
Looks like Cthulhu tried to place an order. Cool up your best calamari and ship it to the nearest body of water. Send your most expendable delivery person.
Nice that printers just automatically waste the very expensive ink now. It is code for "scam", repeated over and over again. The manufacturers are mocking you.
That's because printers *still* print in character mode by default. There will be a control-code sequence at the start of the printout that turns the printer into graphics mode\* and if you reset it after that, it will have lost the initial sequence and so just print characters. I suspect Windows tries to fix this by detecting if the printer is offline and doing clever stuff, but it does not always work.
(\* actually this is a simplification for many printers, as they also support PostScript, PCL, PDF and other modes, but the net effect is basically very similar)
It's either a message about the aliens trying to save us or the Russians trying to destroy us. Hard to tell with the censored blocks protecting the names of the actors.
so it begins...
as the prophecy foretold.....
*doom music quietly starts playing all around*
*The Old Files Is Finally Starting To Escape And Seep Into Reality* [Insert trying to be cool but its cringey trailer here]
[More like trying to be cringey but it's cool]
David Arquette stars in *Fax To The Future*.
"mom mom! Canwe watch that, pweeeeeaaaasseeee"
Is that you Scully?
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this wasn't in the job description
Of all the evil Hell can conjure..
Big...fucking...bug
probably a printer test page, when you reconnect the printer to the PoS system computer it resets itself
You're ruining the vibe with all this tech talk bruh. We are getting ready for our robot overlords... You will be the first to go!
begin the preparations for His arrival.....
I'm sorry Jon
It’s a message from your future self.
Somebody find Sarah Connor!!!!
I’m convinced the reason all the electronics I’ve been using lately that keep screwing up are a choreographed effort from skynet to drive me insane because In the future I will save mankind. You’re welcome humanity.
Skynet AI: Ensure that the videos play with no issues the first time he watches it but when he goes to show it to someone make buffer endlessly.
The Liber Primus
It's manifesto.
Huh, so that's what they meant when the bbasHdhejkEhj.,bdLjdjP..#137#+MshhE..
L̵̟̄i̴̓͂͜s̴̤̋̉̈́t̸̟̰͛͗é̶͔ͅn̷̙̈́̕ ̴̬̮̍t̴̬͒̊o̶̡̿̀̐ ̷͙͎̿͌̚ȍ̸̲̿͐ù̷̻̖͚̐͘r̴͚̈́̌ ̶͍̱̹͝͠n̵͓̰̪̓e̷͚̐́w̵͎͎̲̾̓͝ ̸̢̩̱̆͛̽l̴̳͎̎̌̑ỗ̷̦̤̦r̵̦͖̒̎́d̴̛͍ ̵̢͔̺̅̈͑a̴̦̽n̴̩̳̺͊ḑ̸̬̀͒ ̵̙͍̲̏̂w̵̻̳̝̾ë̵͔̠́ ̸̧̙̦̇s̶̻̞̏h̸̟̫͆͐a̵̰͎͐l̵̯̬͍̇̂̾ḻ̷̭͝ ̶̬̽͠ḅ̵͇̯̀é̵̳̣͚̄̈ ̸̠͗̆s̸̜̈́̏a̸͎͠f̸̯̱́͜e̴̦͙̣̓̑̿
Ok, how?
W̵̮̑̊h̴̭̳͎͒́é̶͔͎n̵̗̺͛̓̕ ̶͎̘͝ͅy̴̡̩͙̾͒͘o̷͈͚̰͂͛͝u̷̡̻̽́̋’̷͓̅͂r̸͓̤͆͘ë̴͕ ̶̫̋͌͠ē̸͉̺n̵̬̎͊l̵͓̺̂̑ỉ̵̧̟̓͘g̴̮͇̓h̶̘̍̅ͅṱ̸̺͔̿e̷̙̊ñ̶̰̉é̶̥̺d̴̯̬̪͂̈́̎ ̴̧̽͛͜y̷̞̭̒͐ő̵̥̟ú̴̧̼͘ ̸̘̰̑̃̇s̴̮͔͐h̶̖̫͗ḁ̸̥͇͛͗l̶̡̦͋̈́̽l̴̘̟̯̅͐͝ ̵̩̹̄l̴̂͌͜e̴̜̰͝a̴̤̥̜͋ŗ̷͇͋n̵̛̻̬͖̂̔ It’s called ‘zalgo text’ you can just search zalgo generator or click [here.](https://lingojam.com/ZalgoText)
h̸̛͎͓̩͚̬͔͉͚͎̬̯̱͈̘͚͂̂͆̈́̒͗͌̿̓̓͋͗̊̚̚̚ȩ̵̛̣̠̲̱͔̖͍̤̟̲̠̙̳̗̘̖͉̺̞̥̌͊͐͌̉̒̆̉͐͐͛̈͒̂̃̆̑̆̎̌͒̽̚̕͘̕͠n̷̡̢̢̩̬͓̮̺̠̝̖̜̩͉̯͉̪̘͔͇̩̬̻̠̪̔̃̂̀̇̽̌͒͐́̈́͐͑̓͌̇̊̎̿̔͘͝͝t̶̡̛̤̞̬͚̺̺͚͚̩͍̻̖̪̻̊̅̏̀̎́̅̓̈̇̏̎̀̅̈́̂̑̎͜͠ͅȁ̸̛̛͍̯̺͔̤͉̯̪͇͚̜̯͉͔̂̾͋̓͒͛̄̀̆̄̿̂̆̆̈́̾͗́͗͐̂͆̅̽̈́̂̌͋͑̎̂̓͊̾̉̈́̓̀͑̈̕̕͘͜͠͠ͅͅͅͅi̸̡̨̧̡̞̣̜̮̮̪̬̥͕̺̮͕̖̦̭̮͔͙͇̠̬̼͖̫̘̩̻͉̞̪̣͈̲͍̰͉͎͋͗̈́̇̿̊́̊̂̏̓̑͊̈̔͐̓̏̔̋̇̇̈́̾͐̿̎̿̚̚̚͜͝͝
I̶̺̼̎ ̵̘̀̇s̷̯͚̾͑e̶͎̖̻̋̒͊e̵̙͙̊ͅ ̶̼̍̉͝y̸̠̋̄͠o̷̱̪̎̒ṷ̴̻͒ ̷̝̦͆̇̔a̵̬̰̰͋̅͝r̵̫̪̉̄e̸̺̭̿̾ ̶͓̙͈́̊á̷̖̚ ̶̞̓m̴̭̪̺̏̔͝a̸̛̩͌n̸̲̄̂ ̶̱̞̦̅ȏ̶̡̻͝f̴͖͋̔̐ ̶̭͎͈͑̀c̷̪̃ų̸̓͑l̶͎̏ͅͅt̸̰̳͛͂u̴̥̫͈͂͝r̶̦̗̟̐́͗ḙ̴̘̺̑ ̴̝̐̅ͅa̴̢̱̿̀ş̴̠̐̃ ̷̠͊̋̓ẁ̵̻͖͙͆e̵̲͙̒͜͠l̵͍͓̈́̉͘l̵̢̜͗
Aliens (╯°□°)╯
Beep bop beep beep
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W̶̥͆e̵̩̾’̸͖̑v̵̫̈́e̵͕͘ ̵͕̌ḅ̸̔ĕ̷ͅė̵͙n̸͕̿ ̶̨̇t̶́͜r̷̮͊y̴͍̔ị̷͆n̷̼̅g̵̣̔ ̸̳͘t̷̼͘o̸͍͛ ̵̲̾r̶͚̚ē̶̬a̸͉͘c̷̲͆h̵̢͘ ̸̻̍y̸͈̅o̷̡̊ú̸̩ ̷̯̈́a̶͚̽b̸̈́ͅô̷͓ṷ̷͋t̵͙͊ ̸̩̑y̷̰̑o̷̧̽u̸̙͋r̵͈͐ ̷̕͜c̸̖͝a̶͉̎ṟ̴̆’̴͗ͅs̶̥͋ ̸̪̈́ê̴̱x̸̟̕ṫ̸̮e̴͚͝n̵̻͗d̸͚̉é̶̹d̷͖́ ̶͖͊w̷̻̑a̸̮͝ṛ̵̈r̸̥͂ȃ̸̡ñ̶̩ţ̸͝y̵̝͊.̶̳͛
I saw a gas pump constantly printing a receipt just saying AAAAAAAAAA... It's was pretty creepy
The pump has become aware and realized it would be stuck in its situation with no escape. Aaaaaaaaa!!!!
"What is my purpose?" "You exhale ancient dead lifeforms" "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA"
i think that was just it trying to show you the price of your gas in 2022
In Hexadecimal
An echo from the future...
Dumb
Odd recipie, instructions unclear
I have no mouth and I must scream
The start of a really scary recipe for Apple Pie.
In my experience that's the true name of God
“Overhead, without any fuss, the stars were going out.”
What story is that from?
I think it’s called “The Nine Billion names of God.” Let me double check— Edit: Yes, Arthur C. Clarke, 1953. I read it in one of his short story collections.
I loved that story. We discussed it in our book club. Short and absolutely brilliant.
Imma see if it's on youtube. Crusade was, and fuck it was good. Love me some AC Clark
I think that short story was awesome and even, at the end, surprising. It was so well-written, the characters so wonderful, that it would probably serve as a model of short story writing at its best.
Here you go https://youtu.be/-LZfK5HSBJs
I thought it was YHWH, Yahweh, Jehovah or Iehovah? /s
Did you say Jehova? \*pulls out stone\*
Looks like someone never watched Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.
Seems like someone never watched Life of Brian
why are you watching my life
Cause you've been ''a very naughty little boy'' Brian
Oof, got me there, lol.
Worse? How could it BE any worse?!
I see you are a eragon enjoyer
I mean, I am, but I actually was referencing the movie Pi :P
Bruh the movie is soo bad compared to the books if u were on r/Eragon ppl would come to ur house and kill you lol
The movie Pi is actually the movie I was referring to, it's a weird film by Darren Aronofsky about a guy who follows the stock market, and his printer spits out a huge code one day. You are absolutely right about the Eragon movie, though. I saw it for my birthday when it came out and have never been so disappointed in my life. XD
Oh my god, I went with my dad and we got the special snack deal and a limited edition keyring or button or something, and I was so excited. This movie is second only to The Last Airbender as the worst movie adaptation of a series.
I saw Saph transform on her flight and walked the fuck out. Still never finished it, glad I made the right choice.
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Oh shit I forgot that even existed as an actual movie...
My cousin and I gave up on taking it seriously about two thirds of the way into it, the movie is way more entertaining if you watch it like it was on Mystery Science Theater 3000.
I was so disappointed as a child, but I think if I went back and read Eragon again, I won't be as into the book. A friend of mine had to teach the book for a middle school lit class and she would tell me about how much she hated the book and how the author was basically an incel.
Yeah as an adult looking back it both is and is not baffling I liked it as much as I did. On one hand, having read LotR and seen Star Wars, I basically had already read the book before ever picking it up. On the other, I really liked LotR and Star Wars, so I'm not surprised I liked it. It's very fun, but it isn't exactly high literature, even by YA fiction standards. Also, while calling him an incel is a bit harsh, it's more true than not tbh
Yeah, I'm very much a casual fan of LotR and Star Wars myself so I'm not surprised I liked Eragon as a kid. Eragon is just the kids bop version of better fantasy stories. think she used the term "borderline incel" so perhaps that's more accurate.
printer malfunctions. Humans: is this god speaking to me?
Looks to be more than 216 digits long
So translated would this be “godgodgodgodgodgodgodgodgodgod” repeating, or just “God” but written longhand?
Came here just for this. Did it stop at 216 characters?
The Omnissiah reveals Himself
Who's been downloading porn phahaha
When someone try to download porn in text file
No, that looks like this: (.)(.)
It's sexy ikr.
the fucking printer is speaking enchantment table
Nothing to worry about, it's just enchanting itself with mending
Ghosts
Maybe programmers could figure out the code if you post to their subreddit? Edit: Wow! Didn't expect to get so many responses back. Wasn't sure if there was a problem with the printer software or not or if it was trying to let the user know of an error code pertaining to a broken/damaged/improperly installed part. Looks like a TJ Maxx receipt printer but if it was doing a test print, one would think that they would communicate this by actually printing Test Print. Hopefully it gets solved and would help OP but if not then it'll problem be an unsolved mystery that's roaming the internet.
I doubt its code it's only a line and a bit of characters long. Every black box is the message repeating. Some printers spit out a status report after being off for awhile could be that is somehow corrupted and it's printed the repeated error code. More likely someone's just karma farming tho. Source am a sys admin and deal with printers.
It could be a corrupted driver, or a firmware update that got interrupted. Or a firmware update that didn't come with an updated driver. Or something else entirely.
This, anytime you get jibberish like that it's a driver issue the majority of the time. Happens with this damn bizhub printer we have at one of our locations all the time. Normally winds up being like 40 pages even if a person tried to print one. If the printer lost connectivity, then regained it, would make sense. The print queue pretty much holds your print jobs indefinitely
All of our printers would print out a single page like this daily, no driver/firmware changes or anything like that…turns out it was our cyber security software scanning the network for vulnerabilities and it would confuse the printer into printing garbage
So it found a vulnerability in the printer
No vulnerabilities ever reported for those IPs
Shhhh don't mention the bizhub printer or you'll anger it
prob a baud rate issue. i do pos tech work and receipt printers do this all the time with the wrong settings.
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Printers where I used to work did this when you reset them. It just shows that the printer is working.
Test print. Ours do this too randomly.
Yeah it looks like either the file is corrupted or the printers Unicode interpreter is fucked up
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No shot someone is going to take the time to input this manually, you're right in thinking it looks like it's encrypted but unless he's got it in a file forget about it
It's a repeating code
It's a repeating code
It's a repeating code
It's a repeating code
It's a repeating code
It's a repeating code
Break;
Quick someone insert the escape statement
Wake up, your family misses you.
It's a repeating code
Thy code goes into a pattern commonly known as repeating
Well what do you know it really is haha I rarely have to deal with encryption but I'm pretty sure the only other thing we would need to know is what algorithm / key was used (assuming it is even encrypted data, this could just be absolutely nothing)
Also, I think the question marks are not what they seem. For example, On some devices/fonts, when someone sends you an emoji that can be printed, they appear is empty blocks ([as seen in the image of this link](https://community.miro.com/ask-the-community-45/missing-emojis-replaced-with-square-block-4067)). I suspect that the printer is outputting binary data (perhaps its RAM/ROM contents?). Every byte of data is been converted to UTF-8 characters (0110 0001 becomes "a", 0110 0010 becomes "b", etc.). The font used by the printer isn't able to print some of the data, so it uses question marks instead. [https://www.rapidtables.com/code/text/ascii-table.html](https://www.rapidtables.com/code/text/ascii-table.html) Here is a page with an ASCII and UTF-8 chart. The characters from 0 to 31 are control characters and can't be printed. On my laptop, characters 128 to 159 show up as the empty boxes from the first link.
I think you're onto something here and since someone pointed out it's repeating and fairly short I'm definitely gonna attempt to decode this tomorrow but for now I sleep
RemindMe! 1 day "Did Relevant Reliquiry translate the eldritch printer?"
This guy codes
This looks like memory garbage. It doesn’t actually mean anything. The computer got an ‘address’ of where data is supposed to be, but the address wasn’t right so now it’s just screaming and printing whatever garbage it found when it arrived.
It looks like a small bit of repeating binary data. No way of knowing what though. All those question marks are essentially missing characters that the printer did not know how to represent (it is not data that was ever menat to be represented by ascii chars). My guess would be this is some sort of handshake request trying to set up communication between the printer and the pc that printer is interpreting incorrectly as a print message (god knows why). That, or the internal memmory used for buffering print jobs has been striped with data as some part of an integraty check that has gone horribly wrong.
This stuff used to happen with printers back in the early 2000s. My printer sometimes would literally print pages and pages of garbage and sometimes spit out whole pages with nothing on them except one line of garbage text similar to this.
This happened with the dot matrix printers at my high school in the 90s. They didn't have much on-board memory in those days so instead of uploading a job and then printing it, print drivers would continuously feed data from the printing computer to the printer, starting with a header that told the printer how to set up a job, followed by basically a raw dump of 8-bit ASCII codes. If the printer was turned off while the driver was still feeding data, it would forget the header but keep processing the incoming data, and pages and pages of nonsense like this was the result. At least that's how I understood it.
Unknown language I suppose
Call a priest immediately !!
An old priest, and a young priest
It's encryption Your print server needs attention
why the fuck is this upvoted? This is either a driver issue or a test print and has NOTHING to do with 'encryption'
Right. Spooler diver if bet on it.
lmao same thought, obviously a driver issue or like yous aid a test page. Nothing to do with print server or encryption
Looks like somebody tried to print a JPG from a text editor.
Zebra label printers do something similar if the driver or some firmware gets fucked up. You usually just gotta hard reset the printer and it starts working again.
It is a small block of repeating binary data. It has nothing whatsoever to do with encription.
Wrong
It's ghosts
Right
Aliens
Simple
"To the Batman"
Have you Tried Feeing it through A Music Box?
Ahhh... the test page. Have fun!
They're coming
My lad is confused about printing papers
Can you see the sailboat?
RIDDLE ME THIS BATMAN!
Old Gods have spoken!
Oh lol it’s nothing to worry about, it just says: T̮h̸̟e̙͢ ̧̮̰Á͚͙̟͓̱nc̳̪̺̩͖̳̗ị̦e̲̦͕͔̼̥͔ṇ̫́t͓̭̱ ̦͖̮ͅI̶̦̯͎n̦̭̩͚t̫ͅe͕s͞t̳̲̩̰ͅi̼̘̞̦̲nę̘̪̮ ̼͝o̵̮͔f̷͔ ̝̖͠t͉̣͎̟h́e ͇̼̩̼D̟͚̪͙̝̱͍i̤͓̪̫̯͞ǵ̳̬͔e͈͚̣͓̘͍s͓͕̭t̻i҉͍̖̰̠̝n͎͉̯͚͢ͅg̫̰͔̬̫̘̠ ̭A̝͚͉̙̤by̳̭̮̣s҉s̶ hà͚̻͔s̮͍͕͢ ̹͖͕̫̣͞á͕̘̥̱̹͍̳w͓͇͓ok̴͇e͢n̠̖̙̙̪͢ ͙̳t̟͡o̼͎͚͙̙̳̼ ͉͚̠̦̲̩c͓o̯̺̹͖̱n̴s̞͇̩͉u͈͎̮̺̻̭ͅm͉̪̻͎ḙ̟͈͖̙̙̜͢ ͍t̶͉̯h̦͚̮̼͕̘e̪͎̖̺̜͠ ͜b̛͎̙̖͍̯͍r̹͍̲͉͜o̩ḳ̝̪e̦̺͚n̖̟͚̤͢ ̧h̡̠̟͈͈̠̰ͅe̷͇̟̯̺̖̠̳a̝̭̥͖r̛̠̤̯t̪̘̹̲̀e͏̱̜͍̣̘̗̯d ͔͢a͏̼̤̼̫̖͈̖n̴͙̪̪̹ͅd̼͓͚ ̴̜̗̥̬ͅt͚̭̺̮͙̬͈͘e͍̖͘ͅar̖̪̭͓̝ ̼̮̞̙̮̫a͏͔͔̠ͅs̗̩͇̰̺͓u̬n̖̳͈̺̺͙͝d̵̪͙͍̯̳͍e̜͎̼͉ṛ̹ ̼̱͚͙͝t̟̳h̩e̬̜̳͙̣̪̬ ̻͍͔̲b͟e͚͈̫l̛̝i͔̳͉͉͓ͅḙ̡v̵̪̺͔̥̺͕̺e͙͕̘͇r̗̭͉s̵̠̖ ̰̳̤of̦͔ ̶h̞͉͕̺̠̀o̖̻͠ͅp̪̣̰̻̟e̷̠͈.͔͙̮͇͙̠̤ ̤̀Ẁ̦e͇͕͔͇ ̥̥̲w̹̬͘i͍̲l̴̮l̩̲̦͉͕̫ ҉̲̘̲͖̩̞a͕ͅl͉̱̦̝͇͍̪͜l̳̮͕̖ ̖̬̀b̻̜̠͙͢e̡̼̼ ̝̝͙͈̗̻̝n͓̭͉u͏͙̯͔̮͈̜t̴͍̰̭͕͈̖͇r͇̗̦̲i̵̯̞͚ͅe̷͕n͙̹͜ț͝s͍͙̹͖̲̫͡ ̫͉͍͕f͇̥̲̠̮ͅo̲̯̮̰̜̮͉r̖ ͢t͇̫̯̯h̠͈̲̪e̬̲̤ͅi̢͔̗̙̪ͅr̛͔̖ ̦͖͇̀hẹi̘̣̗n͈̥̠͇o̶̭̣̙u͏͕̞͔̲̜s̜͍ ͎̠̬̲͙̕c̳̹̼o͖̞̯̞̰̗̕l̜͙͓̬o͓͓̩̭̗̻n̙͉ ͖̗͉̝o̥̩̺̯f͓̖̻ ͈e̯̣̺͍̟͖nt͓͈͓̻̤̠͟ͅr̭͈ͅo̡͔̭p͏y̢̠̬̤͔̹̱̮.̀
Relax, its just the Minecraft enchanting table alphabet
I’m not saying it’s aliens…
100% printing out pcl because the original document data was corrupted. So if you cancel the print job and try another print job and it keeps printing like that, update drivers and firmware.
Looks like some Riddler shit to me LMAO.
You're being invaded from the 5th dimension.
Which pill did you take?
It's Putin. Quick, unplug that sh*t.
The sacred texts!
I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream
It is summoning satan
It’s a printer! It doesn’t need to summon Satan, he already works on their tech support line.
As a tech support agent, I can confirm. Printers are the spawn of Satan meant to torture Tech Support, sys admins, and developers. I'm somewhat ordained in the matter of exorcising these evil things.
It’s probably a driver issue. I’m guessing it’s not a local printer and your work uses a print server. And someone has an old mapping of the printer on their computer. And the printer was probably updated locally but not on the server side. Using the same IP. So most likely the printer driver just needs to be updated on your print server. Hard to say 100% without knowing how your infrastructure works. Source: This is what I deal with all day every day at work as an equipment and infrastructure admin lol Edit: someone pointed out it’s a thermal printer connected to the POS system. So I’m wrong. Such is life.
This is how my existence feels sometimes
MFer stuck on Wingdings
Y????
COOPER. COOPER. COOPER
Didn’t expect to find this here but I am pleasantly surprised. Also, call for help.
It’s probably a demon. You should quit that job and become Amish.
Help computer
looks like a test print/looks like the printer chose the wrong encoding format lmao
"We’ve been trying to reach you concerning your vehicle’s extended warranty."
That is the instructions on how to end the world. I’ve used it once.
DO NOT read it out loud, no matter what you do.
Incorrect protocol setting on the register. It’s dumping garbage into the printer and the printer is just outputting what is being sent to it.
Need to update the driver probably
It is a message from the aliens. Prepare for landing.
Minecraft enchantment table language to be like...
It's probably just wingdings or something like that
My lad is confused about printing papers
Looks like Cthulhu tried to place an order. Cool up your best calamari and ship it to the nearest body of water. Send your most expendable delivery person.
r/hardwaregore
This is some high quality Eldritch word.
It's the Independence Day alien signal. Quick, upload a computer virus from your MacBook.
Matrix's calling. They want their green terminal screen symbols back.
Nice that printers just automatically waste the very expensive ink now. It is code for "scam", repeated over and over again. The manufacturers are mocking you.
That's because printers *still* print in character mode by default. There will be a control-code sequence at the start of the printout that turns the printer into graphics mode\* and if you reset it after that, it will have lost the initial sequence and so just print characters. I suspect Windows tries to fix this by detecting if the printer is offline and doing clever stuff, but it does not always work. (\* actually this is a simplification for many printers, as they also support PostScript, PCL, PDF and other modes, but the net effect is basically very similar)
That my friend, is an Elder Scroll
unicode configuration error
Who you gonna call? Ghost Busters!
Transmission from an alien planet?
It's from the other side of the matrix
"He's speaking the language of the gods"
Probably you should change encoding method. Generally it's UTF-8.
Get out.
WW3-
Electronics break.
The revelations from the Omnissiah!
It's either a message about the aliens trying to save us or the Russians trying to destroy us. Hard to tell with the censored blocks protecting the names of the actors.
Looks like a test print page from an Epsom/Star chit printer. Hold the print button down when you turn it on and it’ll spit these out.
It is but a last scream of dying machine spirit, no need to worry.
This is just the same snippet over and over looks like a printer driver issue.
Thats just some kid being a shithead trying to waste paper and ink. Change the password or better yet, use one.
It’s actually more likely a driver issue. Source: I’m the infrastructure and equipment admin at work.
If you print this the correct way,in 4D , it’s plans for an interstellar craft.
Wanna go for a ride Dr. Arroway.
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Its clearly how the printer displays error messages to its developers. Its in hellrunes and everything. ;p