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On 27/10/2020 22:58, Brad Rogers wrote:
There were two cables in the box. One is a UK power cable, with the correct three pin plug on it. This is what I use to power up the printer.On Tue, 27 Oct 2020 22:12:52 +0000 Julian Hall <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: Hello Julian,Or possibly a European plug, HP being an American company may [wrongly] assume the UK has the same electrical standard as Europe, and as you say be too dumb to check.HP know better (my HP printers have all had UK spec 13A plugs). *However*, it's entirely possible that they've cut back on that, and fit only Mainland Europe(0) plugs to their mains cables nowadays(1). That said, there is a legal requirement that anything mains powered sold in the UK must have all the necessary gear to allow that to happen without the customer having to resort to cable cutters or supplying their own adaptor. That is to say, there should at least have been an adaptor included. In UK law, the purchaser has redress against the vendor, because that's who their contract is with. If the vendor then wishes to get redress from HP, good luck to 'em. In short, the vendor should have ensured that either a) a UK plug was fitted, or b) a suitable adaptor was provided. Of course, if the cable Neil was talking about isn't a mains cable, then all the above becomes moot. (0) Or worse, a USA spec one. (1) It's been some five or more years since I bought my printer.
The other cable looks like a US power cable. It has a two pin plug at one end, but obviously I don't have that kind of power point on the wall.
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