*wibbly wobbly time travel sound effect* (scrolll down - full mail quoted for people who were not on the list 8 months ago)
On 18 January 2011 09:56, Paul Sladen <ubu...@paul.sladen.org> wrote: > Hello people, > > Ubuntu currently ships a printer test page, which looks something > like this: > > http://www.flickr.com/photos/nickj365/4125843224/ > > and hundreds of thousands (millions...) of these get printed each year > by people setting up their printer because the default action offered > to the user to to print a test page after adding the printer. > > Virtually all of these sheets are only usable as scrap-paper > afterwards and a lot probably go straight in the bin. It's also > currently not that attractive. > > Question is, could we do something more *useful* with these instead, > that would allow them to have a meaningful secondary purpose. > I thought of: > > * A4 advert "I run X/K/Ubuntu" > * My Foobar 2700 duplex printer works with Ubuntu, does yours? > * An envelope or magic-folding return-form: > http://www.letterfu.com/index.php [*] > * Some other zero-cut origami design (animal of the latest release?) > > And perhaps you could think of a few more. My hope would be that the > output could have some longevity, perhaps spark some more interest in > Ubuntu. > > This is a bit like the installer in some ways, originally that was > just a progress bar and now it's an interactive slideshow introducing > many of the features and look of Ubuntu. > > -Paul > > [*] This was done by a Friend a few years back, and I still find it > ingenious, it uses diagonal folds that self-interlock and are sealed > together by sticking down the stamp. > > Anything happen with this? I just printed a test page in Oneiric (11.10) and got the usual coloured boxes. :( Al. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
