“Groovy Motherfucker”

An old hack, rediscovered: Change the “00 READY” message on HP printers. I used variants of this at uni (“00 RAEDY” and “PAPER UPSIDE DOWN” were favourites of mine), and at AnagramOfPanties (in those glorious bubble days, I ran a script which displayed the current stock price on printers).

Looks like the Kodak printers will work “better” with Kodak photo paper, but since I always found their photo paper to be worth paying extra for, that doesn’t bother me.

Kodak are looking to break into the inkjet printer market by undercutting the overpriced ink cartridges from which HP et al make most of their profit. I encourage this, since I tend to buy a cheap new colour inkjet printer every couple of years rather than pay through the nose for ink.