Ode to Joy on a Printer : Low Bandwidth Version

Ode to Joy on a Printer Posted: 3 months ago by pocksucket
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?
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Posted: 3 months ago by jhordie:
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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Posted: 3 months ago by sykeo56:
::goes to find scanjet 5p::
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Posted: 3 months ago by dollyllama:
That was pretty damn awesome.
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Posted: 3 months ago by Sputum:
That was exceptionally geeky.
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Posted: 3 months ago by Kevertje:
Here's another one, this one's playing 'Für Elise'

I wonder what it is with scanners and Beethoven.
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Posted: 3 months ago by palmieres:
I'd like to see what was printed.
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