Printer Name Generator

Funny and clear names for paper printers

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Generate names for a paper printer at home or in an office: jam and ink jokes like Jammed Since Monday and Toner Deaf, characters like Third Floor Oracle and The Reluctant Inkjet, pet names like Paige Turner, and plain labels such as Front Desk Laser.

About printer names

This page is for the ordinary paper printer, the inkjet or laser that shows up in the print dialog at home or on an office network. For a machine that prints plastic, see the 3D Printer Name Generator instead. A printer's name is read by everyone who prints, so it does two jobs: it tells people which machine they are sending to and, if you like, it says something about the machine's character.

Most of the humor comes from how printers behave. Jams and empty trays give Jammed Since Monday, Tray Two Blues and Accidental Origami. Ink and toner give Out of Cyan Again, Toner Deaf and The Cartridge Family. Queues, drivers and unexplained silences give Offline for No Reason, Spooler Alert and Behaves for IT. The rest of the jokes treat the machine as a person: mock-grand titles (Baron von Toner), floor and room characters (Third Floor Oracle), dramatic personas (Unreliable Narrator) and pet names (Paige Turner, Old Betsy). Scanner, copier, fax, label and photo machines have their own runs.

About one name in ten is deliberately plain, like Front Desk Laser or Floor 2 Mono, because an office with many printers needs labels people can pick without thinking.

How to choose printer names

In a shared office, put the location first and the joke second, or skip the joke: Floor 2 Mono and Copy Room Color are found faster in a long list than any pun.
Name the machine for its real habit. A printer that eats paper suits Accidental Origami or Eats Paper for Breakfast; one that keeps dropping off the network suits Offline for No Reason.
Remember that the name shows to everyone who can see the printer, guests and clients included, so choose something you would be happy to see on a meeting room screen.
Keep it short enough to read in a narrow drop-down list. If your system trims long names, the first two words should still tell people which machine it is.
If you have two machines side by side, name them as a pair, such as Copy Room Hermit and Copy Room Ghost, so people learn both at once.

Frequently asked questions

What are some funny printer names?

Jokes about what printers do wrong land best: Jammed Since Monday, Toner Deaf, Out of Cyan Again, Tray Two Blues, Offline for No Reason and Spooler Alert. For an all-in-one machine try Jack of All Trays or Just the Fax.

What is a good name for an office printer?

If the office has many printers, a plain label works best, such as Front Desk Laser, Copy Room Color, Floor 2 Mono or a code like HR-LASER-01. If there are only a few, a name with character and a place in it, like Third Floor Oracle, Mailroom Monster or Legal's Workhorse, is still easy to find.

Is this generator for 3D printers too?

No. These names are written for paper printers, copiers, scanners and label or photo printers. The 3D Printer Name Generator has its own list of filament, nozzle and maker jokes.

Where do I change the name a printer shows?

There are usually two places: the printer's own network settings, reached from its control panel or its built-in settings page, and the name your computer shows for it, which you can edit in the operating system's printer settings. The steps differ by maker and system, so follow the manual for your model.

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All 500 printer names

This is the complete list the generator above draws its random batches from, sorted A to Z and grouped by first letter.

Plain text, one name per line.

A: 20 names

A Gentle Tap Helps
A Scanner Darkly
Accidental Origami
Accordion Fold
Accounting Laser
Accounting's Problem
Actual Size
Add Paper to Continue
Aligning Print Heads
All in One Wonder
All That's Fit to Print
And Now It's Blinking
April Spools
Arch Nemesis
Archduke of A4
Assistant to the Regional Manager
Atonerment
Attention Seeker
Attic Antique
Auntie Ink

B: 26 names

Barbequeue
Barcode Bard
Baron von Toner
Bartleby
Basement Dweller
Beast of the Basement
Beepy
Behaves for IT
Behind the Ficus
Beige Box
Big Color Copier
Big Guy
Black and White and Read All Over
Black and White Only
Blank Page Energy
Bleep
Boardroom Bertha
Bonus Blank Page
Borderless
Break Room Bandit
Break Room Inkjet
Building A Lobby
Builds Character
Buttons
By the Coffee Machine
Bypass Tray Bandit

C: 34 names

Cancel Cancel Cancel
Cancel Did Nothing
Carbon Copy
Cartridge in a Pear Tree
Cartridge Not Recognized
Chancellor of Copies
Chaos Agent
Cheat Sheet
Check Tray Three
Chief Printing Officer
Chonk
Chuggy
Clunky
CMYK OK
Cold Hard Fax
Collate and Wait
Color Only
Commitment Issues
Conference Room Color
Copy Cat
Copy Paste
Copy Room B&W
Copy Room Color
Copy Room Ghost
Copy Room Hermit
Copy That
Countess of Collate
Crumple Zone
Cursed Object
Custodian of Copies
Cyan Here Please
Cyan Me Up
Cyan of the Times
Cyanara

D: 30 names

Dad's Den Printer
Darkroom Dropout
Deadline Destroyer
Deep Sleep Mode
Default by Accident
Deja Vu
Department of Hard Copies
Designated Driver
Director of Output
Ditto Machine
Do Not Rush Me
Do You Copy
Doodle
Doohickey
Doppelganger
Dorm Room Dinosaur
Dot Matrix Reloaded
Dots Per Inch
Dotty
Double Sided Drama
Double Take
Downstairs Neighbor
Dr. No
Draft Mode
Drama Queen
Driver Not Found
Driver Wanted
Drum Roll Please
Duke of Duplex
Duplex Dilemma

E: 10 names

East Wing Enigma
East Wing Mono
Eats Paper for Breakfast
Eco Mode Enthusiast
Emperor of Envelopes
End of the Hall
Engineering's Experiment
Et Tu Printer
Ethel
Executive Suite Laser

F: 25 names

Fade to Gray
Faded Glory
Fax and Figures
Fax From the Past
Fax Not Fiction
Fax of Life
Feed Me Seymour
Field of Reams
FIN-COLOR-02
Finance Color
Fine When IT Looks
Flatbed Fred
Floor 1 Color
Floor 2 Mono
Floor 3 East
Floor 4 Copier
Flying Colors
Forever Offline
Four by Six
Fourth Floor Phantom
Fridge Worthy
Front Desk Hero
Front Desk Laser
Front Office Copier
Fuser Friendly

G: 10 names

General Failure
Give Me a Minute
Glass Half Clean
Gloss Boss
Got the Receipts
Grandpa Laser
Ground Floor Grump
Guardian of the Toner
Guest Room Ghost
Gutenberg's Revenge

H: 19 names

Hallway Hog
Handshake Noises
Hard Copy
Have You Tried Restarting
Head Cleaning Cycle
Help Desk Regular
Her Royal Inkness
Herbie
Hold My Pages
Hole Punch Drunk
Home Office Hero
Home Office Inkjet
Home Office Laser
HOME-INKJET
Hot off the Press
HR Laser
HR's Secret Keeper
HR-LASER-01
Humphrey

I: 17 names

I Can't Do That Dave
I Would Prefer Not To
In a Jam
In Living Color
Ink Again
Ink Before You Print
Ink Costs What
Ink Floyd
Ink Inc.
Ink Panther
Ink Slinger
Inkcredible
Inkognito
Inkster
Inky Promise
IT Test Printer
IT's Problem Child

J: 13 names

Jack of All Trays
Jam Master
Jam Packed
Jamboree
Jamiroquire
Jammed Since Monday
Jetson
Jett
Job Pending
Job Security
Just an Inkling
Just Make a PDF
Just the Fax

K: 5 names

Key Is for Black
Kids Homework Printer
Kitchen Printer
Kitchen Table Inkjet
Kitchenette Inkjet

L: 24 names

Label Maker
Label Me Impressed
Label Printer
Lady Laser
Left on Read
Legal's Workhorse
LEGAL-MFP-02
Letterhead Tray
Library Copier
Library Whisperer
Liquid Gold
Little Gray Box
Living on Borrowed Time
Load Paper Please
Loading Dock Laser
Lobby Inkjet
Lobby Loudmouth
LOBBY-MFP
Log Jam
Longest Serving Employee
Looks Good on Paper
Loose Leaf
Low on Magenta
Low Res High Hopes

M: 23 names

Mad Cyantist
Magenta Alert
Magenta Carta
MAIL-LABEL-01
Mailroom Laser
Mailroom Monster
Main Office Laser
Manual Feed Mood
Marketing Color
Marketing's Color Hog
Master of Margins
Matte Finish
Mezzanine Menace
Mimeo
Ministry of Paper
Miss Print
Mom's Office
Monday Hater
Monochrome Mood
Monotoner
Movable Type
Mr. Inkwell
Mr. Whirr

N: 8 names

Near the Water Cooler
Needs a Driver Update
Needs Constant Praise
Needs Yellow for Black
Never Took a Sick Day
Not Before Coffee
Not the Default
Not This Again

O: 20 names

Office Oracle
OFFICE-LASER-A
Offline Again
Offline for No Reason
Old Betsy
Old Grumbler
Old Timer
Old Unfaithful
On a Roll
On Its Last Legs
On Queue
One Percent Toner
Online Occasionally
Oops All Test Pages
Open Tray Two
Origami Machine
Out of Cyan Again
Out of Paper Again
Out to Lunch
Overexposed

P: 38 names

Page One of Three Hundred
Pages Not Found
Paige
Paige Turner
Paper Cut
Paper Jam Session
Paper Muncher
Paper Plane Factory
Paper Pusher
Paper Tiger
Paper Trail
Paper View
Paperwork Department
Passive Aggressive
Patience Tester
Payroll Pal
PC Load Letter
Peel Good Inc
Percy
Photo Booth
Photo Finish
Photo Printer
Pickup Roller Blues
Picture Perfect
Picture This
Pixel
Plot Twist
Postmaster
Press OK to Continue
Press Secretary
Pretty in Ink
Pricier Than Champagne
Prima Donna
Printer Not Found
Printer Says No
Priority Mail
Proudly Offline
Pump Up the Jam

Q: 4 names

Queue and A
Queue Ball
Queue Jumper
Queue the Music

R: 21 names

Ream Catcher
Ream On
Ream Team
Ream Weaver
Receipt Pete
Receipt Printer
Reception Color
Reception Regular
Reinstall the Driver
Reliable on Fridays
Repeat After Me
Replace Toner Soon
Reply Hazy Try Again
Return to Sender
Ring Toner
Rock Paper Toner
Roll Model
Room 101
Room 204 Printer
Rorschach Test
Running on Fumes

S: 61 names

Sales Floor Sprinter
Same Again
Saturation Station
Say Cheese
Scan Antonio
Scan Diego
Scan Do Attitude
Scan Francisco
Scan of Worms
Scan You Hear Me
Scandalous
Schrodinger's Printer
Scribble
Second Floor Sphinx
Seeing Double
Send in the Clones
Senior Vice President of Jams
Sent to the Wrong Floor
Serenity Now
Set the Toner
Shades of Grayscale
Shake It and Pray
Shake the Cartridge
Sheet Music
Shipping Desk Sidekick
Shipping Labels
Short Edge Surprise
Shredder in Disguise
Shrine of Hard Copy
Shrink to Fit

S, continued

Sisyphus
Slightly Crooked
Slow Jam
Small B&W Laser
Small Roll Big Dreams
Smudge
Snap Happy
Snooze Button
South Wing Slowpoke
Spare Room Special
Special Delivery
Spool Me Once
Spool of Rock
Spool's Out for Summer
Spooler Alert
Sprocket
Squiggle
Staple Diet
Status Unknown
Sticker Shock
Sticky Situation
Still Has a Fax
Still Spooling
Still Warming Up
Stop the Presses
Stuck in the Queue
Stuck on You
Study Buddy
Supply Closet Goblin
Sweet Reams
Swiss Army Printer

T: 60 names

Tag You're It
Tank You Very Much
Teachers Lounge Copier
Teachers' Lounge Relic
Tears Before Deadline
Technicolor Dream
Temperamental Tim
Temple of Toner
Test Page Champion
The Archivist
The Boardroom Baron
The Cartridge Family
The Contraption
The Copy Chief
The Crumpler
The Document Whisperer
The Establishment
The Final Boss
The Grand Duplexer
The Gremlin
The Heavyweight
The Honorable Inkjet
The House Printer
The Ink Tank Engine
The Intern's Nemesis
The Monolith
The Multitasker
The Other Printer
The Printing Press
The Procrastinator
The Reluctant Inkjet
The Saboteur
The Scribe
The Scrivener
The Sulker
The Typesetter
Thermal Thelma
Thingamajig
Third Floor Oracle
Thirty Second Timeout
Three Sheets to the Wind
Ticket Still Open
Toner Deaf
Toner It Down
Toner of Voice
Toner Ranger
Toni
Top Floor Diva
Traffic Jam
Tray Bien
Tray Chic
Tray One Is Empty
Tray Two Blues
Trays of Our Lives
Triple Threat
True Colors
Trust Issues
Try Again Tomorrow
Two Sided Story
Two Toner

U: 6 names

Uncle Toner
Under the Stairs
Unplug and Pray
Unreliable Narrator
Upstairs Neighbor
Upstairs Printer

V: 3 names

Very A-Peeling
Vice President of Paper
Villain Origin Story

W: 18 names

Wakes Up Eventually
Warehouse Labels
Warehouse Warrior
Warm Pages
Warning Label
We're Jammin'
West Wing Wonder
Whirry
Who's a Good Printer
Why Are You Like This
Wide Format Plotter
Winning Streak
Wired and Tired
Wireless in Name Only
Works on Tuesdays Only
Works When It Wants
Wrong Paper Size
Wrong Printer Again

Y: 2 names

You Had One Job
You Meant the Other One

0-9: 3 names

2F North Laser
2F-EAST-BW
3F-WEST-COLOR