Another incidence of "concussive maintenance"

Hey, I've been meaning to relate another incidence of "concussive maintenance."

A while back we got a printer at Wal-Mart, not the lowest-end, but close to. One where ink refills quickly cost more than the printer purchase.

This model had a scanner — already have a scanner, but a 2nd could be handy — and stuff I never need, like Fax and ... document feeder.

I've never had anything but problems with document feeders. But, for the price, I took it.

About the day after the warranty expires, the printer quits booting up. It announces a jam in ... yes, of course... the never-been-used doc feeder!

I open and close firmly every hatch and cover. I jiggle every component on the doc feed path. No change.

Finally, I pick the printer off the table a couple of inches, and drop it. The error message remained but changed slightly, as if it had got further in booting up.

So I drop it twice more, once impacting harder on the left side, again on the right.

Printer comes up working like it was brand new.

Itemized bill:
Dropping printer...... $1.00
Knowing how hard & where to drop it: $99.00.