Dear VURD:

[featherynscale]

Every morning at about 7:50 a.m., my printer produces a map to 1127 Belmont.

WHY???

Thanks,
featherynscale

Comments

[gamera-spinning.livejournal.com]

It appears your printer wants to go somewhere.

[triadruid.livejournal.com]

Our printer is a Mason?

[ruisseau.livejournal.com]

I bet it knows the secret handshake and has a second-hand apron.

[duane-kc.livejournal.com]

Too young. It's probably a member of the Order of DeMolay.

Or maybe a Rainbow Girl...how do you sex a printer, anyway?

[mortegami.livejournal.com]

Ugh. I remember Rainbow Girls. I used to be a Rainbow Girl.

Did I mention I didn't fit in?

[duane-kc.livejournal.com]

[snaps fingers] I've got it...the printer must be a Job's Daughter. Sits around, looking pretty, but does no useful work!

[ruisseau.livejournal.com]

OMG! It's an omen!

[opaljax.livejournal.com]

Pizza, totally pizza.

[celticwhistlin.livejournal.com]

Omen!

[opaljax.livejournal.com]

giggles.

[triadruid.livejournal.com]

Wabbit season!

[bloominglotus.livejournal.com]

I don't know why it prints up every day, but it's for sale. Have you been looking for a meeting place?

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

Yeah, in fact, that's the building we're currently looking at. I printed the map originally on Saturday, so that we could go by the building and take a look at it. And then, periodically, the printer just spits out another one. I am baffled by this.

[chronarchy.livejournal.com]

Wow, that's a steal, from an initial view: they're asking less than the cost of my house.

Not that there's much info on the page, but yeah.

[zylch.livejournal.com]

I hacked the network just to mess with you :)

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

Could you hack it back so that it will print jobs that are actually sent to it, please?

[zylch.livejournal.com]

Nope, I out-hacked myself.* I reckon you're stuck with it until you can find a better hacker to unhack it. Try my outlaws?

*you do know this is utter bullshit and that I couldn't hack my way of a wet paper bag, right?

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

*Yeah, I know. :)

[theslice.livejournal.com]

Unplug the printer and find out which computer is sending the print job when it tells you the printer is offline. Then you can delete the job and hopefully it'll go away.

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

Ha. See, on Saturday morning, I printed this map from my computer. So I know that's where it's coming from, but it doesn't exist as a job in my queue anywhere that I can see.

[kenllama.livejournal.com]

sorry about that. i knew there was something wrong with the networking on my printer. i keep thinking i'm going to head over to belmont one of these days, but i keep not being able to print the map. yet i persist.

mea culpa

[lexpendragon.livejournal.com]

There's one here, too. And it's an empty lot. I wonder if that's where the treasure is buried?

[revolution-grrl.livejournal.com]

Wow, that's really weird. Do you know what's at that address?

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it's an old Masonic Hall. The rest of the story is that my church is looking at purchasing that building. So I went to see it on Sunday, which required printing a map to the place. Apparently, my printer liked that map so much that it wants to make a new one every morning now. *shrug*

[saffronhare.livejournal.com]

Is that your work or home printer?

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

Home.

[jbrenner.livejournal.com]

Wow. That's seriously bizarre.
I have nothing useful to add. Sorry.

[auraseer.livejournal.com]

Apparently some part of the system doesn't think that document was ever successfully printed. Therefore it's still in the queue, and periodically gets retried. That would also explain why it won't print anything else; new jobs just get in line behind the stuck one.

You can look at the Windows print queue by going to "Printers and Faxes" on the Start Menu, and double-clicking this printer. If the document is listed there, delete it from the list.

I presume you've tried power cycling the printer and computer? If not, try that next.

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

All good, except that I'm running Ubuntu with KDE, and I've pulled up the CUPS print queue, and it doesn't appear anywhere. I did cycle the printer this morning, but have been resisting the reboot of the PC.

[corwin00.livejournal.com]

Just FYI, cycling the power to the printer and the computer will kill the ghost print job.
All done :)

[geekatlarge.livejournal.com]

What is the make and model of your printer? Mine has a web interface that has access to the internal queue.