Our fabled HP PSC 1510 scanner printer cleverly logged every power outage in the recent storms to hit the East coast of the USA. How so?

Thanks to yet another inexplicable software glitch, every time it starts up, the bastard machine prints the test page with all the color bars and weird text that proves the printer is fully functioning. So we came home to 10 pages of perfectly produced evidence that the powerlines faded in and out 10 times between 3 and 6pm Tuesday. The low ink button is flashing too!

Income from ink worth more than a printer

Is this glitch a ploy by HP to sell ink? Shame on me for even thinking that heinous marketing related thought. Afterall, HP techs are nice people who wanted to sell us a fabulous hi-tech machine that was cheap-to-run. But I think what happened was, the marketing people stepped in and suggested that they tweak the software so that the machine became super heavy on ink.

Apparently, other companies do that because ink cartridges are worth more to them than any stupid fricking printing copying faxing machine. But HP are cool and wouldn't do that, would they?

Further HP PSC 1510 woes

If you have been visiting the Pisstakers at all, you probably caught a few of our broadsides against this most annoying of combo printer/scanners. It is hard to believe how much work is involved uninstalling and reinstalling the software on a one-click Mac. And unbelievable how long the post was outlining it. A reassuring read for all PC users who wonder just how easy a Mac might be!