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Hey Joey, I’ve seen this done before. In face, I wrote a blog last year about it, AND I have a VS 2008 solution for your readers to try out….uh….play with! LOL
A great Geek April Fool’s joke for the office HP LaserJet printer
http://www.pchenry.com/Home/tabid/36/EntryID/117/Default.aspx
This IS a lot of fun to watch people’s reactions to a printer saying things like,
Press Cancel to Continue.
Do I look landscape with this paper?
Please don’t go Office Space on me?!
Completed downloading the internet, please insert more paper
Double-Double for me please?!
There’s a few references in there too (including the code). Have a good one!
Here is the Ruby Version of the Printer hack...
#!/usr/bin/env ruby
# Simple HP Printer Hacker
# Written in Ruby by Erik Gregg
# 6/9/06
# Status Usage: hp-message.rb status
# Message Usage: hp-message.rb message ""
require 'net/telnet'
begin
if ARGV[0].nil?
puts "Read the script.
Status Usage: hp-message.rb status
Message Usage: hp-message.rb message \"\""
exit
end
host = Net::Telnet::new("Host" => ARGV[0],
"Port" => 9100,
"Timeout" => 5,
"Prompt" => /\b/n)
if ARGV[1] == "status"
host.cmd("@PJL INFO STATUS") { |c| print c }
elsif ARGV[1] == "message"
host.cmd("@PJL RDYMSG DISPLAY=\""+ARGV[2]+"\"")
else
puts "Oh Cmon. Look at the syntax inside me."
exit
end
host.close
rescue Timeout::Error
puts "Time to go now!"
exit 1
end
LOL nice to see my photo still exists in the cracks and crevices of the internet.