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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Edit 2019 : Made a youtube playlist
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Edit 2014 (periodically updated) : Being a pretty famous sound now, i thought itd be nice to have a list of sound's usages (link me yours if you want to be included!) :
TRK - Harold printer by Bienoise
TRK - Printer not printing by Doctor Popular
VID - Navigator IV (Caffeine) by Baikal
VID - Space Rally by Cornersting
TRK - Dot Matrix by moatdd
RMX - REMIXES
TRK - Printer step by Anton van Oosbree
VID - Orbituary by Geek video
TRK - Da capo al fine by Teoniki Rożynek
VID - Printerbird by Gerd de Kinderen
TRK- Percee Scan by Scientist
TRK - Printer jam by Mistabishi
VID - A thousand eyes by Ryan Nethery
VID - The dimension by Ruudabiyoga
POD - Ad Astral podcast episode 15
TEATR - "Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory" Musical
Long life to Freesound!
and thanks to those who respected the CC license
Type
Wave (.wav)
Duration
1:28.045
File size
22.2 MB
Sample rate
44100.0 Hz
Bit depth
24 bit
Channels
Stereo
Comments
15 years, 11 months ago
Someone just gang raped a printer, you can hear the love that went into it. ; )
15 years, 11 months ago
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*
16 years ago
The drum&bass; track is damn good. I'm gonna post a link on the track to this sound.
16 years, 1 month ago
a note to the author... i think this drum n bass group "Mistabishi" stole this broken printer sample of yours. check it out here.
16 years, 1 month ago
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.
