Ode to Joy on a Printer : ATOM 0.3

Ode to Joy on a Printer

I was looking for a video for Ode to Joy on YouTube to post for FAF*. I was hoping for a Clockwork Orange tie in too, but what I found was this video. And it is so much more.

As brief as I can be, when printers print they whine. That whining is, after a fashion, a series of notes. Print the right thing and you can play music.

So someone down at HP did. This is supposedly a self test Easter Egg on HP Scanjet printers and this is how you make it happen.

*4th Movement of Beethoven's 9th Symphony. But you knew that, right?

palmieres @ 5/9/2008 3:44:02 PM

I'd like to see what was printed.

Kevertje @ 5/9/2008 3:06:05 AM

Here's another one, this one's playing 'Für Elise'

I wonder what it is with scanners and Beethoven.

Sputum @ 5/8/2008 10:56:34 PM

That was exceptionally geeky.

dollyllama @ 5/8/2008 9:33:23 PM

That was pretty damn awesome.

sykeo56 @ 5/8/2008 9:12:23 PM

::goes to find scanjet 5p::

jhordie @ 5/8/2008 8:35:50 PM

Well, someone had WAY too much time on their hands but that was great! God I would love to be able to do that at work!! Set it up and not say anything... just let it start "playing".