I think my HP printer committed suicide

[SeerSGB]

I was running off a invoice last night, halfway in I hear a loud bang, the front cover jumps open a smedge. I look inside the rail that the print-heads run on is sitting at an odd angle, and there's a pool of ink under the black cart and it's got a knick in the bottom of it. Put it backtogether-- looks like a clip is broke, can't be sure-- and next thing it starts banging the heads from one end to the other till the rail jumps out again.

Oddest damn thing I've seen.

 

[Holdfast]

Run it over.

Be sure.

 

[Locutus of Bored]

I was running off a invoice last night, halfway in I hear a loud bang, the front cover jumps open a smedge. I look inside the rail that the print-heads run on is sitting at an odd angle, and there's a pool of ink under the black cart and it's got a knick in the bottom of it. Put it backtogether-- looks like a clip is broke, can't be sure-- and next thing it starts banging the heads from one end to the other till the rail jumps out again.

Oddest damn thing I've seen.

You know what to do.

 

[TGTheodore]

But the suicide note was very neatly printed ...

--Ted

 

[Jadzia]

They don't make stuff like they used to.

I've been disappointed by HP stuff on more than one occasion, and I avoid that brand now. Had their customer services been helpful to me when I called them, then things might have turned out different, but instead that was the last straw for me.

 

[Geckothan]

Wouldn't be the first time an HP product has commited suicide, I wonder if they design them to break.

 

[auntiehill]

^If I were an HP printer, I'd kill myself, too.

 

[Holdfast]

But the suicide note was very neatly printed ...

Death by hanging indent?

 

[JustAFriend]

Things DO break.

Otherwise we'd be up to our asses in steam tractors and tube radios....

 

[miraclefan]