I had a little Office Space moment with the old HP 2230. It has served me well for nearly five years now, although I never got the software to work with my mac, so it was only three for four on the advertised fax/copier/scanner-not so much/printer capabilities. In the end, though, it was a problem with the printing, taking 45 minutes to print something 20 pages long, with paper jams, and one of its favorite tricks-just feeding paper through wiht out printing anything on it. It liked to do that six or seven times for each thing being asked to print. Also, it wouldn't print .pdf's.
I will admit that I was surprised that hitting the cover broke the glass; It was just unfortunate that there was no commensurate satisfying crash to be heard.
I'll admit, when this happened I already had another printer/everything waiting in the wings here in the Dome. But don't worry, all is not lost--the printer-Johnny Infuriating-is still turning out some great printed photographs, and you better believe I will get the last drop of ink out of the stupid HP cartridges...
