Prank: Hack your HP’s display’s text


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This HP Printer Display hack is not so much of a useful one as a pranky hack.  With a little stretch of the imagination you can use the screen of your HP printer to remind yourself of little to-dos when you visit your printer.  Most likely however it will just cause confusion and havoc around the office when the friendly HP printer displays the message “Insert Coin” or “Feed me paper!”. 

Although anyone can do this hack with a command prompt and a few lines of code IronGeek created a slick little program that even a novice can handle.  All you do is load it and click the printer you intend to hack, insert some text, and press the send display button.  Next thing you know the accounting dept’s HP is telling them all how much they suck (or are awesome).  The secretarys will all flock to the printer to see what it will say today.  All good clean fun.

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November 7, 2007 | Filed Under Hacks 

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2 Responses to “Prank: Hack your HP’s display’s text”

  1. Jon Cardozo on MyAvatars 0.2 November 8th, 2007 2:04 am

    That is such a great hack! It reminds me of something you might see on the show the office. I’ll have to try the one that says insert coin.

  2. USBdevice on MyAvatars 0.2 November 9th, 2007 3:05 am

    That was way too much fun the whole office came to a stop as I routinely changed the office’s displays to random silliness. Fun this good shouldn’t be Free you have earned a lifetime reader.

    I second the Office show thing I would love to see Dwight think the CIA is trying to communicate through the printers.

    Or reveal a office romance without leaving a trace. Although I fear for the Office’s HP printers health should these things be uttered.

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