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ā [error]: lp0 on fire
Ricardo Harvin@catsalad "Hot printer sale happening now!"
Andreas Scherbaum@ricardoharvin @catsalad "Hot printers near you want to print for you right now!"
@ascherbaum @catsalad šµ I'm burning, I'm burning, I'm burning for you šµ ā Hot printers, probably
Hi I'm Sean@catsalad details please
morb@catsalad the real underlying question here; is it endothermal, or is it an exothermal printer?
screambiogenesis@catsalad Overclocking thermal printers: who could have possibly foreseen any danger whatsoever?
gnate@catsalad It's automatically replenishing the supply of black toner.
Zac
Steve@catsalad thermal printer does thermal things
Steven@catsalad I love this so much. I've wanted to set so many of those on fire over the years and this one does it on it's own. Brilliant!
zem
StarkRG@catsalad Thermal printer printing thermally. Possibly too thermally.
Nils Ballmann
delta 
@catsalad 0/10 smells of burning plastic worst candle ever
Opalium@catsalad Let me guess: the "not catching on fire" license was sold separately, right?
JimTheWhyGuy āš@catsalad This is why IT people have t-shirts that say "No, I can't fix your printer" š¤£
Sternwarte Vach (Andy)@catsalad good old thermoprinter :D
Martin Hamilton@catsalad This message will self-destruct in 5 seconds... š„
I am Jack's Lost 404Which pin on the parallel port are you supposed to connect to the fire alarm system?
embix@catsalad @jernej__s in Germany Iād say: EPSON is a Brand š„ to be remembered
Doridian@catsalad Ah I see what happened here. It took its design as a thermal printer a little too seriously, clearly!
MakerGeek@catsalad Holy moly. That's what you call thermal printing...
Marud 
@catsalad Thermal printer they said
CheDN@catsalad I see a prequel to that 2008 Clooney/McDormand/Pitt film: "Burn Before Reading."
InCameraNet@catsalad true cinema, a perfect image.
Simonoid@catsalad I have vivid memories of troubleshooting drivers for thermal printers in a previous life.
Seeing one on fire brings me joy š„
Seeing one on fire brings me joy š„
frater mus@catsalad I seem to remember a SunOS reboot man page that gave a particular argument for use "when the CPU is on fire". I could never tell if it was a joke.
Susanna the Artist š»@catsalad Now that is performance art!
PointyFluff
Incident Creator ā@catsalad
I try boosting this and:
"Oops! An error occurred."
Didn't know whether to laugh or drop the phone in a bucket of water.
@catsalad
Glub glub fizzle.
Glub glub fizzle.
Amin Negm-AwadšŖšŗš@catsalad They said it from the very beginning: Thermotransfer
TheNavyBear@ben_zen is this a feature or a bug?
Ben@TheNavyBear
It's a condition to be addressed for sure.
It's a condition to be addressed for sure.
BeerAndBytes šŗš„ļøāØļøš±ļø@catsalad this is fine, this is ok
Ļ»ąøš¬į
Luna chan@catsalad Part of the thermal printhead was stuck on?
X-Tim Mctuffty old a/c š»
Chris Williams@catsalad Consoles trying to run Starfield rn
ā-ŹoɾÉuÉnɾ (Etaoin Shrdlu)@catsalad Now, would those who enjoy a good cigar-lighter-as-talking-piece know how to to keep it from being a free invite for the fire department? It strikes me they'd be the corner office types to call IT when their executive bathroom deodorizer ran out of juice.
@catsalad At least it's branded appropriately: "EEP, sonā¦"
Schaf@catsalad good that the natural thing to do in this case is printing a meme š„š„š„
Mx. Eddie R@catsalad
Exothermal printer.
Exothermal printer.
Abie
Mistress Remilia@catsalad this is like that meme gif where someone is writing on like scribe paper or something to indicate they're writing something badass... but for modern times.
Bailiff of Gradec@catsalad not to be confused with ip-fire
roddie digital 
Graeme Hamilton@roddie Yeah, though Iām glad it never actually became a real issue!
kulupu Telalun 
Androcat@catsalad NotAnError
John LuskPaper + ink + ink-soaked paper dust + undecodable electrical signals from the printer = (your best guess?)
Leeloo@tarheel @catsalad
The original lp0 on fire error was not just ink soaked paper dust.
Printers were cleaned periodically with isopropyl alcohol. That's very flammable compared to ink.
It also wasn't just any undecodable signal, there were two signals: Paper jam and offline. The on fire message meant that there was a paper jam, but the printer did not go offline. It was still operating at full speed with the paper jammed.
Combine this with a drum or chain line printer, and you basically have the old bow and stick method of lighting a fire.
@tarheel @catsalad
There were only 2 bit = 4 values.
Not jammed, not offline: working normally.
Not jammed, offline: Someone switched the printer offline manually.
Jammed, offline: Go fix the jam.
Jammed, not offline: On fire.
Who is seeing it now? I've only ever seen the error when messing around with the connector on an actual parallel port, 25+ years ago when those still existed.
I guess not now, but
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(https://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=112446&cid=9537275 , response by bhtooefr June 26th, 2004 11:40AM )
lp0 on fire 