A simple "Cancel job? Yes/No" would be *much* clearer!
... as long as the UI designer didn't fall into the trap of using that wording with three buttons labelled "Yes", "No" and "Cancel". (The admin interface on the self-checkouts in Tesco does that, or at least did last year.)
Indeed, they could go even further and label them something like "continue printing/cancel printing" and then you wouldn't have to read the whole thing. (Except that many printers have inadequate displays, so that _might_ be too long.)
And yes, we're now at 20 votes for "Continue" and none for "Exit". I was fairly confident that people would generally vote against the printer, but wouldn't have bet on them doing so quite this unanimously!
It's interesting that pretty much everyone seems to have the opposite interpretation to the printer though :) I had the same reaction as
... as long as the UI designer didn't fall into the trap of using that wording with three buttons labelled "Yes", "No" and "Cancel". (The admin interface on the self-checkouts in Tesco does that, or at least did last year.)