{"id":728,"date":"2008-03-01T00:24:02","date_gmt":"2008-03-01T05:24:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2008\/03\/01\/either-cpl-or-hp-suck"},"modified":"2008-03-01T00:24:06","modified_gmt":"2008-03-01T05:24:06","slug":"either-cpl-or-hp-suck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2008\/03\/01\/either-cpl-or-hp-suck","title":{"rendered":"Either CPL or HP, suck&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Computers and Parts Land (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cpl.net.au\/\">CPL<\/a>), and\/or Hewlett-Packard (HP),<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, a nice sunny Friday afternoon, I bought a printer. A <a href=\"http:\/\/h10010.www1.hp.com\/wwpc\/uk\/en\/ho\/WF06a\/5043-5527-5531-5531-1794113-12245298.html\">HP LaserJet 3052<\/a>. It worked moderately well, to scan (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.xsane.org\/doc\/sane-xsane-multipage-doc.html\">xsane does multi-page PDF scanning<\/a>, I like), and it worked as a networked printer for about a dozen or so pages. The only reason I bought the printer was that it was a Laser printer, that worked over the network, and was relatively affordable.<\/p>\n<p>However, it seems to have stopped working, in under-24 hours. Is this HP quality? Now, everytime I try to print, or even turn the machine on, all I hear is a loud grinding noise. One would think that there was a paper jam, but there is no paper to be found anywhere. Printing now gives me this magic message, &#8220;jam in output bin&#8221;. And I have to hear the loud, grinding noise.<\/p>\n<p>So, I decide to call CPL up, to see if they would give me some warranty service or an exchange. After all, I purchased this machine at about 11.30am on a Friday, and I&#8217;m calling at about 2pm on Saturday. I finally get to speak to one of their consultants, and they tell me that they can&#8217;t do anything, as I have to call HP up first! On a Saturday!<\/p>\n<p>Naturally, 131347 is their number, and they are closed on a Saturday; I now have to call them back during working hours, on the earliest possible day, Monday.<\/p>\n<p>So, who sucks here? Is it CPL or HP? Let&#8217;s find out on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Technorati Tags: <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/CPL\" rel=\"tag\">CPL<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/HP\" rel=\"tag\">HP<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/LaserJet%203052\" rel=\"tag\">LaserJet 3052<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/HP%20LaserJet\" rel=\"tag\">HP LaserJet<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/quality\" rel=\"tag\">quality<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/warranty\" rel=\"tag\">warranty<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/HP%20printer\" rel=\"tag\">HP printer<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/support\" rel=\"tag\">support<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Computers and Parts Land (CPL), and\/or Hewlett-Packard (HP), Yesterday, a nice sunny Friday afternoon, I bought a printer. A HP LaserJet 3052. It worked moderately well, to scan (xsane does multi-page PDF scanning, I like), and it worked as a networked printer for about a dozen or so pages. The only reason I bought [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4vJD-bK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"amp_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}