# My new printer is a Cylon!!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-new-printer-is-a-cylon/299336>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [April 14, 2005, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-new-printer-is-a-cylon/299336 "2005-04-14T19:56:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\
**Post date:** [April 14, 2005, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-new-printer-is-a-cylon/299336/1 "2005-04-14T19:56:51Z")

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My Lexmark Z-810 has a self-test routine when you first install it. It prints an alignment page and evidently uses some internal scanner to read it’s own printing and autoadjusts. As it was doing this \*\* a red light scanned left and right, right and left, back and forth!\*\* And I thought Adama was being paranoid when he insisted that the Galactica have daisy-wheel printers only!

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**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\
**Post date:** [April 14, 2005, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-new-printer-is-a-cylon/299336/2 "2005-04-14T20:02:51Z")

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Are you certain that KITT wasn’t scrapped and reused for printer parts?

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**Author:** ![TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tellmei_mnotcrazy/32/3419_2.png) [@TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TellMeI_mNotCrazy)\
**Post date:** [April 14, 2005, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-new-printer-is-a-cylon/299336/3 "2005-04-14T20:03:58Z")

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> [@Hal Briston](#):
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> Are you certain that KITT wasn’t scrapped and reused for printer parts?

“Your document is done printing, Michael.”

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**Author:** ![Bean\_Counter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/db5fbb/32.png) [@Bean\_Counter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bean_Counter)\
**Post date:** [April 14, 2005, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-new-printer-is-a-cylon/299336/4 "2005-04-14T20:35:22Z")

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When you send something to print, does it say, “By your command”?

Didn’t you think it was a little weird that a printer would have a chrome exterior and a soft, chewy center?