[RKDinOKC]

In the good ol days...I would hack the program, fix it, and leave my alias in the code.

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or WET or Wet One, etc.

Used to be if you opened the postcript printer description file for The Canon Color Imagesetters (from Cannon) it had text in the file that said, 'A Wet One Hack" We were one of the first ones to get a color imagesetter laser printer. The printer description is the files that has all the options for the printer for the print driver, like paper sizes, trays, postscript level, inks, colro matching, etc.

The print drivers were abysmal and only worked with the default tray and had problems. Basically it didn't work unless you were printing text only with limited fonts on Letter from the default tray when we got the new printer. After calling support and not getting any help I found the postscript description file and started editing. I got it all working great and our printer sales person brought the Canon Rep buy to see if she could "help." He ended up taking a 3.5in floppy with a copy of my postscript description file.

To keep track of my file I had given it a revision number and added "A Wet One Hack" in the file's metadata copyright information. A couple of weeks later there was a new version of the Canon Imagesetter driver on their web site. I downloaded it and the Postscript Description file had my revision number. In fact, they hadn't edited a thing. It was a bit for bit copy of my file, including the copyright text that said "A Wet One Hack". Later we bought another imagesetter and the drivers that came with it had the Postscript Description file that was A Wet One Hack.