Aside from being [stoned] or [lost] there are actually uses for [printing] something to find out where the printer is.

[Imagine] the [scenario]... you've just landed that support job in an organisation that has [FEEL MY WRATH, INFIDEL!|felt the wrath] of an admin who enjoyed thinking up [esoteric] names for machines dotted around the campus. Naming all the machines after obscure [Russian poets] may be a mark of a highly intelligent mind, but really doesn't help when you're trying to find one for some reason.

So when the [the straw that broke the camel's back|camel's back breaks], you've got to find it. You could use [traceroute], [DNS] records and switch configurations to find it, but that's time consuming. So out of each [printer] comes a single sheet of paper...

To whomever may find this message

Please phone the [Helldesk|helpdesk] on extension xxxx

and tell us where this printer is...

Printing something to find out where the printer is (idea)