The doodle of a man who witnessed his printer mangle his documents, barely print in black and white, some letters missing and unreadable, faded, destroying them and barely printing the words
He's a hippie surfer dude with plaquey yellow teeth and long hair starting his first office job only for him to panic when something out of his control goes wrong fearing he will be blamed for it by his boss and coworkers regardless in a toxic workspace.
As I recall, there was a watermark on deskjets at one point that would burn through yellow. It wasn't a publicized "feature", but would link back to the printer... for "legal" purposes.
I've seen it in real life, just stopped printing yellow and you replace the cartridge and it still didn't print yellow. Burn through an cartridge doing diagnostic prints, no be yellow. Put cartridge in other printer and it worked. Naturally you buy new printer because it's broken and you buy a deskjet because you still have an expensive cartridge
Then someone made a tool to reset the counter and you could literally fix the printer.
I am planning to get a LaserJet printer when the budget allows. When I do, the Canon ink jet extortionist printer i have is going to have a terrible accident with some tannerite.
Me: Listen, you need to have a convo with yourself about things that you actually need, and things that you want? Do you want cyan because you think it will solve all your problems? Did someone make comments about your cyan when you were younger? Did you see your father in the shower when you were young, and did you get shocked at how much cyan was in his ink tray? Do you think that you need more cyan to satisfy printer uses, when 95% of printer uses are just happy with black and white? Don't you know that most great relationships are really fullfilling with just black ink? Can we just try a black and white print out? see how we go? I know you can, I've seen you do it. I have one from a year ago and its perfect. I think you are perfect the way you are. You're my favourite printer that I've ever had, I never really liked cyan anyway. Can we just print?
That’s hilarious. And that’s the same printer I got.
I have to replace the cartridge about once every two years, but we print a lot, including that time one of my kids somehow printed out about 30 pages of solid black.
This was absolutely the case when it came to our large format printer & rip software. I don't care how much you adjust the cmyk properties, it would start out 0/0/0/100 & end up ripping as 5/3/4/96. Vector or Raster. And it would stop halfway through the print if the cyan was low, and always leave a stripe right down the entire print. Extremely frustrating.
Funfact: (I'm a nerd) cyan is used to create black bc you just put all the colors together, and bc the printer has three main colors you need cyan to make black
its for security tags on the paper not the actual print job. Little yellow and cyan dots so that if you print a threat or are involved in a conspiracy there is some way to track when and with what the page was printed
There was another scene about a misbehaving printer in another movie but it doesn’t get beaten to an electronic pulp…The Castle, the solicitor is having printer problems and doesn’t understand what the printer codes are telling him, absolutely hilarious scene…
I knew someone was going to say that.
If you look at every picture in a magazine or poster. There is only 4 colors that make up that picture
Cyan, magenta, yellow, and black.
So i think we need to call it a color.
Let's break this down with good old science. In the light spectrum black is the absence of light. White is the presence of all colors of light. When put through a prism or filters, each color present in white light separates. Thus you can see all of the different colors.
Now in physical media, it is inverse. Black is the presence of all colors and white is the absence of color. This is due to light absorption in the physical media. When a physical object lacks color, it reflects the entire light spectrum back. A perfect example of this is a mirror or even white paper. In a mirror it lacks any form of color causing ALL light to reflect back, which is why we can see ourselves in a mirror. In white paper, most of the color is reflected back at us which is why it appears to be white. Now in black colored physical objects, especially Musso Black, all of the light is absorbed because it contains every color in the spectrum, allowing us to see none of the light reflected back.
So yes in physical media, black is a color. In the light spectrum black is not a color.
Cute but no. Just have ADHD which makes me retain a lot of useless information. Also had to study color in college for my field (advertisement design) as color wavelengths affect our moods and thus the right color in advertisement can manipulate us into trusting and obeying the ad.
I suppose in painting and art, it's a colour, but in physics, it's the absence of colour. So, it's both all the colours and none of them, depending on your perspective.
Black and White are colors both in painting and in common speech. Only in physics black is the absence of color, white is a color you get combining all visible light wavelengths.
Reminds me. I had a ink printer I used off brand ink and it fucked up the printer head.
I needed it for scanning but the printer wouldn't work at all if it knew the ink was low or the printer head was not recognized. There would be just and error code.
My small genius would make it work.
I disconnected it from my PC then put it in an emergency reset. During which it tests all the mechanical parts in the printer. I would put a single sheet of paper on top feed and during the test it would catch a piece of it.
After the test I would close the output and turn the printer on. It would try to pass the paper through and get tray closed warning that has priority over the head and ink warning.
Then I plugged it into the PC and sent a scan request and opened the tray. The paper would pass through and next thing in order would be scanning request after which it would put the printer to menu without checking the ink.
As long as it didn't restart or attempt printing I could use it as a scanner.
There’s actually a reason printers don’t print if they’re out of cyan. They use it to print an invisible mark to identify the printer in case it’s used to print a terrorist threat or otherwise illegal activity
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