According to our South American connections, HP are pulling ahead in the market share figures by a not inconsiderable margin. They now have 15% of the market! But beware of statistics. What HP fail to mention is their market leadership in the field of returned printers.

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85% of poor Latin American families with Macs are refusing to put up with yet another crap hand dealt them by the United States. On discovering no drivers for the scanner, and unwilling to blow 5000 pesos on 3rd party software just so their machine will actually work, they are sending back their HP PSC 1510 All-in-one printers in droves. Hey papá, se puede devolver esta puta mácina? Sí, vamonos!

HP's sideline contribution to S. American economy

Sharp entrepreneurial types are now walking up and down the returns queues in HP stores, selling all sorts of fast food, live chicken of the VNC and iPod ponchos to impatient unhappy customers.

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!

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Admit it, you hate spending out on printer cartridges, but admit it, too, you were suckered into buying a cheapo inkjet printer, and thought, "It's a bargain, it'll be economical with ink. How expensive can ink be?" The answer to that afterthought is - bills for ink will be many times the original value of the printer, it is how manufacturers make money, der!

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