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 Ode to Joy on a Printer
Ode to Joy on a Printer [video]
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? picked by pocksucket 1 week ago
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<a href='http://www.plime.com/redir.p?http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDVJjwWBhjI' class='plime' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'><b>flash video</b></a>

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 jhordie
1 week ago
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".
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 sykeo56
1 week ago
::goes to find scanjet 5p::
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 dollyllama
1 week ago
That was pretty damn awesome.
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 Sputum
1 week ago
That was exceptionally geeky.
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 Kevertje
1 week ago
Here's another one, this one's playing 'Für Elise'

<a href='http://www.plime.com/redir.p?http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6438700334710473669' class='plime' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'><b>flash video</b></a>



I wonder what it is with scanners and Beethoven.
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 palmieres
7 days ago
I'd like to see what was printed.
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