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File added by melack on Jan 12, 2006
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Description by melack the sound of my old printer (epson stylus 600) when i switch it on. it is broken and it makes strange and amazing sounds, trying to clean the printhead and making other unknown operations... the low reverberation is produced by the printer plastic box. listen, download, cut.
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plagasul
Feb 5, 2006
This is my all times favourite sound on earth ever...... ever..... PWEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEET
melack
Feb 6, 2006
im glad you like it! :D
i loved it too, i was not throwing away my printer just for recording its sound...
amazing!
Mister Softy
Feb 12, 2006
This is amazing and hilarious at the same time. Some incredible, highly enjoyable sounds. Poor printer, tho... you bet it is broken... :p
Anton
Feb 13, 2006
hah,
Its very cool, i used to own one of these machines too. Its gives me a very disticnt feeling here these sounds. (NOt necessarily positive ;-)
ronny ragdoll
Feb 23, 2006
printers can be an Autechre / IDM synthesizer
melack
Feb 23, 2006
tell plagasul...
he made an amazing ae sounding track with that!
schluppipuppie
Mar 10, 2006
I cried tears...
conradscmost
Mar 11, 2006
Well melack this recording of a dying dot matrix printer sound great.
mama in the sky
Jun 5, 2006
so now we are two criing tears...
mama in the sky
korkor
Aug 21, 2006
Melack, thanks a million, this made my day :-))
sciboy
Aug 29, 2006
I couldn't help but crack up laughing, thank you. =D
Jamius
Aug 29, 2006
Lol.... great sounds! I like the sounds that resembles an air horn. I have a printer in me & my GFs bedroom that I use when she's sleeping, I can just imagine using this printer while she's trying to sleep haha
melack
Aug 29, 2006
:) those are really kind comments, mates... thanx!
jamius: im just gonna say that my head while sleeping was arround 20 cm from the printer (with a thin wall in the middle). i just stick a note praying "not to print while i am sleeping", cause it was a fucking nightmare!
devilindetails
Sep 5, 2006
Very good... Thank your for the recording.
spong
Oct 4, 2006
I like it. Cheers!
DannyLutz
Oct 9, 2006
Very fun sounds. Thank you.
Shape84
Jan 20, 2007
Great stuff!
walkerbelm
Jan 20, 2007
I'm going to do something with this right now
melack
Jan 20, 2007
im glad its been usefull for you, freesounders!
and also glad that it has reached the top ten rated samples of the site... great!
melack
Jan 20, 2007
oh, dont forget to post the tracks and things you do with the impresora here (or there)!
hello_flowers
Feb 16, 2007
Hah, Awesome clip melack.

Also congrats on 21 comments!
melack
Feb 16, 2007
:D
tiffanyf
Feb 24, 2007
Nice! I just wished it didn't have that long hornet like sound.
alexbird
Feb 25, 2007
:'-D
Great! Thanks a lot!
Agent Catstix
Mar 18, 2007
Hey, sounds like my Epson 740! ( :^)
geekvideo
May 24, 2007
FYI, a little video tribute on it @ http://geekvideo.blogspot.com/2007/05/obituary-epson-stylus-600-printer.html

:)
digifishmusic
May 24, 2007
Excellent! Ass ink-jet printers fade into obscurity this will be audio-archaeology GOLD!

:)
gadzooks
Jun 16, 2007
Nice
bondegi
Jul 7, 2007
Thanks for these great sounds. If you enjoy the sounds of dying consumer electronics please check this out: http://freesound.iua.upf.edu/samplesViewSingle.php?id=30181
Yog_Sothoth
Aug 20, 2007
wow...this sample...it's...it's...the mother of all industrial music!!!
Razz Matazz
Aug 22, 2007
Hysterical! I have an Epson Stylus Color 760, and I recognize the family voice traits.
Jace
Aug 23, 2007
This thing rocks my socks off. Completely. Gotta be one of my most favorite sounds. I used to have a printer that did the same thing! (wipes away tear) Brings back so many memories... nearly kicked the freaking thing across the room... uhm... [comment removed] (no incriminating evidence)
The Director
Sep 12, 2007
I couldn't listen to all of it! I felt like I was waiting for a print of something. Very frustrating...
melack
Sep 12, 2007
hehe... same feeling i had when i tried to print something and have to wait for hours... frustration!
but next time read sound description and youll know what you get and you wont be disappointed....
adambrower
Sep 13, 2007
right now my bullmastiff was tilting his head this way and that with furrowed brow and suddenly has tried to bite a speaker!
phoenixdk
Oct 9, 2007
Lord knows I HAVE to make some kind of music with this... well more like a remix, because this is so obviously music already! Fantastic!
Greg Baumont
Oct 29, 2007
yeah, that's really an amazing sound :)
octavian
Nov 18, 2007
i will give it a shot...Octavian from assfault14 and sumerian7 music profiles on myspace
greenprell
Dec 11, 2007
It's like there's an airhorn in the middle of it!
jobro
Apr 13, 2008
Pure and simply AWESOME! This is audio archeology at it's BEST. Upload a recording of a working Stylus 600 please!
jobro
Apr 13, 2008
Just another comment from me: My xgf had a cat and when these short pweet pweet pweet ... started to beep away the cat responded with her meows. :D Unfortunatly I didn't have the means of recording their conversation.
melack
Apr 14, 2008
hahaha
cats are lovely...

unfortunately the printer was broken and after making this recording i throw it away...
jobro
Apr 14, 2008
Well this is by far one of the coolest sounds. Ashame that it was broken.
tullete
May 20, 2008
might be my next mobile ringtone ;)
PeterRobot
Jun 3, 2008
Delicious! thanks!
damik
Jul 9, 2008
Oh my god, I had this scanner and recognise the noises! The same minute long pattern every time you turned it on after leaving it for a while... and the funny thing is, most of the sounds in this file the printer makes when it *isn't* broken! Well, that or my printer was broken in almost exactly the same way as yours :P
the claw
Jul 24, 2008
Awsome...you helpped me giving life to my robot movements!hehehe
Right ON
Sonnekki
Dec 29, 2008
That is quite a profuse printer! I love it!
chadcells
Jan 24, 2009
i am going to attempt to make a song with this sound using the epson exclusively as the percussive/drum elements of the entire track. i love this sound! pretty decent recording quality too, thanks!
melack
Jan 24, 2009
post the track when done,
id like to hear it!
seanmuzzi
Feb 9, 2009
Thanks for this awesome sound! I used it in a Concrete Music piece, check it out at www.purevolume.com/samuzzi08 - it's called 'Chasing the Beast.'
cristina.genera
Feb 19, 2009
me gustaria que hubiera un sonido de impresora remix pero de plotter, algo mas armonico pero bueno, talvez esta pueda editarlo en windows movie maker y crear algo mas funcional, claro primero necesito poder bajarlo, espero que no se ponga complicado
cristina.genera
Feb 19, 2009
necesito bajarlo!
RYANPNETHERY
Mar 5, 2009
http://vimeo.com/3465194
melack
Mar 5, 2009
bitiful, ryan! :)
paulsounds
Mar 15, 2009
lol i remember this type of sound from my old printer on Amiga 500 :)

i think there are certain sounds (such as the old zx spectrum loading sounds) that kids nowadays will probably never get to hear.
(unless they find the sample on a website such as this) :)
smellimoon
Mar 31, 2009
your sample is world famous, did you know? :)
melack
Mar 31, 2009
hahaha yea, lots of people using it,
and im glad it had succeeded,
it is a pretty curious and beautiful sound on its way,
and it has made my printer survive its own dead...
00Daveid
Apr 1, 2009
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=is-HVxmUELQ&18
LindseyPearce
Apr 12, 2009
did you use this on a video? I recently watched a video on Vimeo.com that I could swear had this same sound. Or maybe someone used it for their video. Either way the video came out really cool. Great job with the sound !
kamietti
Apr 16, 2009
ooh. amazing. I was to lazy to record mine but this is even better....moving lights such as old scanners make terifics sounds too gotta sample em all!
gpivo1
Apr 25, 2009
Mistabishi uses this

Mistabishi - Printer Jam
http://www.zippyshare.com/v/40181375/file.html
melack
Apr 26, 2009
yea the rude boy mistabishi track,
he wasnt respecting the creative commons policies...
let me be bad,
and say that this is the only interesting tune of the album... :P hehe
printer, jam!
estlacksensory
May 10, 2009
I was looking for some more audio for a robot malfunction sequence I will be working on. This is perfect. hilarious. You're always waiting to see what the hell the printer is going to do next! WTF?
Emma.
Jun 26, 2009
Great! =]
TheMusicMan1853
Jul 8, 2009
All I have to say is L. O. L.
Efraim
Aug 22, 2009
Nice! Just what i need for my weird industrial soundscape!
nandanavarro
Aug 23, 2009
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAAHA
Diocleziano
Sep 26, 2009
Hi! I used this sound for a shot movie! Take a look!
http://www.vimeo.com/6658559
AlienXXX
Oct 29, 2009
Ahhh the memories...
paulsounds above made a comment relating to some similar sounds from old Amiga printers. Indeed, I had one of those too.
If you had to manually move the printing head for some reason (for example, to clean the cartidge or to remove a missfed papersheet) the printer would "loose track" of where the head was. So when the printer reset itself and tried to move the head it would go too far in one direction and would produce similar sounds to the long tweeeeeeeets at about 19s, 35s and 50s on this clip. Only the Amiga printer was a bit lower in pitch.
Eddy Stylez
Nov 2, 2009
a note to the author... i think this drum n bass group "Mistabishi" stole this broken printer sample of yours. check it out here.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=is-HVxmUELQ
jobro
Dec 20, 2009
The drum&bass track is damn good. I'm gonna post a link on the track to this sound.
Handfratze
Dec 29, 2009
LOL! This is Epson style! Sounds like my old 9-needle Epson back in the 80s on my C=64. The only difference: mine was still working, while making this noise ;-) Thx, you gave me back this memories to primar school! *sigh*
maria@gmdthree.com
Jan 6, 2010
Someone just gang raped a printer, you can hear the love that went into it. ; )

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