I have an older Canon MG6320 ink jet printer with a touch interface.

Lately, my cats have decided sitting on the printer (one at a time) is a good idea. I’m fine with this – it keeps them off the desk, and they’re not going to break the printer. Even if they do, well, then I get to justify getting a new printer to my partner.

Anyway, when they get on the printer, invariably they step on the power “button”, which means I have to hit the power button to undo what they did:

  • Turning on the printer takes rougly 1-2 seconds, and results in a short beep.
  • Turning it off, even right after it was turned on, takes roughly 60 seconds, with the printer clicking and clacking and whirring and making all sorts of noises that attract cats.

I’ve taken to unplugging it when I don’t need it.

I hate printers.

  • talEnglish
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    4 days ago

    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/molly-guard

    molly-guard

    Etymology: From Molly (female given name) + guard.

    Originally a Plexiglas cover improvised for the Big Red Switch on an IBM 4341 mainframe after a programmer’s toddler daughter (named Molly) tripped it twice in one day. Later generalised to covers over stop/reset switches on disk drives and networking equipment.

    If you don’t want to make one, can buy premade ones of the appropriate size; for a printer, I assume that you’d just superglue it in place.

    https://www.amazon.com/s?k=power+button+cover