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Lexmark Recalls 40,000 Laser Printers
ack154 writes "An electrical shock hazard has caused Lexmark to recall about 39,400 laser printers. The printers were sold under the nameplates of Lexmark, IBM, and Dell. From the article: "The recalled printers include Lexmark E232, E232t, E330, E332n, E332tn; IBM Infoprint 1412, 1412n; Dell 1700 and 1700n." Contact information is provided in the article in order to get your free replacement."
See, if the printers were open source, then this problem would have been caught much earlier!
No reason to recall these printers. Who here, wouldn't mind getting a nasty little shock every once in a while, besides me ? I wont be participating in this recall, no thank you Lexmark.
My first good discharge, when I was 13, working on the circuit board of a commodore monitor. Not sure what I touched but I could feel the wave of electricity going up and through my arm, couldn't move, literally I was stuck for at least 2 seconds. Pretty scary but thrilling at the same time. I wouldn't call it a near death experience but it was damn near exciting.
Peace.
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Contact information is provided in the article in order to get your free replacement.
and.. for those already electrocuted?
Thanks for the great gift idea, slashdot. With Christmas just around the corner I know that my PHB will just love a printer in his office that's his very own.
Or put on a tinfoil body suit and ignore the recall!
A pizza of radius z and thickness a has a volume of pi z z a
...you can't set a laser printer on 'stun'?
If you REALLY want to tweak a Dell rep, when you have them on the phone, talk about the nice Lexmark printers they are selling. They are very adamant that they aren't Lexmarks, they are Dells. It's pretty hilarious. Our rep kinda jumped down our bosses throat when he called them Lexmarks. It's fun to mess with them. Especially when you see articles like these, and others, talking about the Lexmark printers.
...we used to called Lexmark "Lex merde" cause of the crap they used to churn out.
I am NaN
Do to massive copyright infringement, whenever someone prints out copyrighted materials they will receive an electric shock!!
Netcraft confirms: Lexmark users are dying.
Hey, wasn't there a device on /. a few months back that could actually recharge a laptop or a mobile phone just by putting them onto a mat?
Well, perhaps this is just a prototype in a field test? ;)
You, my dear, have never worked in journalism.
In journalism, 39400 is a difficult number. Many reporters have trouble understanding numbers such as those. Thus, it is rounded up to 40000, because that's both easier to comprehend and it looks cooler (lots of zeros).
Next in line are the editors. The editors like round numbers, that's why the reporters always round their numbers up. Most editors like round numbers so much that they round them up to, let's say, 50000, which obviously is half of 100000.
You might also have noticed that lexmark stock is down $3.46 from this morning. Let's apply the same techniques that we learned earlier. Let's make this a nice, round figure of $5.
Now, Lexmark has about 129.5 million shares outstanding. This means, in journalist-speak, that there are 200 million lexmark shares on the market. Multiply this with the figure you got earlier (this part is very difficult for most reporters and editors) and you get $1,000,000,000.
This looks very impressive, right? Still, there's something missing. Of course there is! Let's add the word "over". What do we get?
LEXMARK MAKES OVER $1,000,000,000 LOSS ON PRINTER RECALL
Isn't that a headline to be proud of?
Of course, you might ask what the heck I'm smoking and what this has to do with reality. If you do that, you've uncovered one of the greatest secrets about journalism - it has nothing to do with reality at all.
Oh, and by the way, where did all those $1,000,000,000 USD go? Well, I'll tell you. In fact, I could use a bit of help in transfering those to a private bank acount. If you care to help me out, I can offer you a 30% share of the money...
Fire in the Lexmark
Fire in the rebadged dell
Fire in the Lexmark
Fire in the gates of hell
Don't you want to know how we keep starting fires?
It's my Lexmark, It's my Lexmark, It's my Lexmark
Don't you want to know how we keep starting fires?
It's my Lexmark, It's my Lexmark, It's my Lexmark
Danger! Danger! High Voltage!
When we touch, When we print
Danger! Danger! High Voltage!
When we touch, when we print
when we touch
~~~
No, really. That's shocking.
Lexmark printers - so good IBM wouldn't put their name on them.
... the "illicit" third-party toner cartridges.