Help My Printer Is Scaring Me! Possessed?! Options

[macgyver]

Printer is an HP Deskjet. About 2 months ago I replaced both ink catridges. Printer was not showing any signs of running out of ink. The other day I was trying to print something off an internet site and it was going like it should. All of a sudden the printer stopped printing right at the end of page 2. The printer has two buttons with two lights beside each button. The first is the power button and the second has a picture of a piece of paper and an arrow. The light beside the piece of paper with the arrow starts flashing so I pressed the button. Nothing happened, I held in the button and nothing happened. Turned off the printer and turned it back on, nothing happened. I had to physically pull the piece of paper out of the printer. I canceled the print job in the little printer box that comes up by the clock. Restarted the printer again along with the pc and I unplugged the power cable and the cable that goes to the pc. Hooked everything back up and tried to print from another site. Same thing happeneed. Right at the end of the first page it just stopped. I pulled out this piece of paper and it just sat there with the light blinking by the paper with arrow icon. There was fresh paper in the paper feed tray as well. I guess the printer was not too happy with this and decided to seek revenge because it started going insane. First it shot out a blank piece of paper with nothing printed. The next page had a bunch of strange symbols at the top that I have never seen or even knew the pc could do (satanic code maybe??) Than it proceeded to to print one weird symbol after another at the top of each page sometimes only putting a little dot at the top of a page and spewing it out. I could feel it was laughing at me. It proceeded to do this until all the paper that was in the tray had the mark of the beast on it and the yellow flashing light with the piece of paper and arrow started flashing asking for more paper. I fed the paper assassin and it went back to continue on a few other pieces until I said thats it and pulled the plug. I than restarted the PC, restarted the printer, grabbed my crucifix and holy water and waited. After that everything seemed to be ok. It printed everything ok and everything was fine. What happened? Did my printer make a deal with the devil? Any ideas what may have caused this beside possession? I didn't even know the printer or the pc for that matter could make some of these sybols at all? I can take a picture of the demonic symbols if it would be any help. My feeble attempts to decode these messages are in vain but I am sure they can be broken.


cliff notes: Tried to print, printer started scaring me, printer than worked eventually after soaked with holy water, what happened?

[PolishPaul]

hahaha, mark of the beast

I vaguely remember something similar happening to me before. I think its just a the printer malfunctioning and interpreting the print job all wrong, thus spitting out random chars. Most likely it started reading the print info somewhere in the middle and thus getting its "orders" all wrong.

[Surfer]

no idea what happened but sure is a great story. my scanner changes light levels on a touch floor lamp each time it scans, that's the best i can do for weird computer behavior.

[ranchhand]

This is dangerous. If it ever starts printing "666" repeatedly, you have 666 seconds to get out of the house before the devil pops up.

[defined]

Hi

The printing of weird things on your paper is always due to the wrong printer driver being installed.

Make sure you have the most correct printer driver installed and that your printer actually supports the driver that you are installing.

EG is it a post script driver or not

if it isnt and you install dirvers for your make and model of printer and use post script drivers then you will get this error.