Change the READY message on HP Printers

A little bit of Friday humour...

Be aware that this may be against your organisations Acceptable Use Policy. Also be aware that people without a sense of humour may not find it funny. Don't get into trouble!




The message may be reset to the default by power cycling the printer, or re-running the script and passing "READY" as the message.

Please note, I have not tested this... yet... hehehe.

Telnet to port 9100 on the printer and enter the following: 

\e%-12345X\@PJL JOB
\@PJL RDYMSG DISPLAY="MESSAGE HERE"
\@PJL EOJ
\e%-12345X

Some funny suggestions:

“Insert Coin”,

“Insert Cheese”,

“Im Sad..”,

“Low Monkeys”,

“Feed me a cat”,

“Insert Butter & Jam”,

“Free The Ink!!”,

“My Cousin Is A Toaster”,

“Load Soy Latte”,

“Paper Tastes Funny Today”,

“Free Hugs..”,

“Toner Tastes Funny Today”,

“Press OK Button for Pacman”,

“Flower Power Mode”,

“Incoming Fax…”,

“Cheese Mode”