This week I went to our HP Office jet 4500
Printer/Scanner to copy a document and when I lifted the scanner cover the area
under the screen was full of brown ants carrying around big white eggs.
I checked around the printer no ants to be found, they
were contained in the area under the scanner plate.
On a whim, I put Ants in HP printer into a Google
search and to my surprise a number of hits came back all with the same symptoms
ants with eggs under the scanner screen.
HP Support Forums HP
8600A Plus Ants have set up home under glass
Interesting thing is all of the pictures and videos the
ants are the same. So it is unlikely the ants are domestic.
It looks to me like the ants may actually be an HP Bug.
The ants appear quickly with little warning and after
you have had the printer for a while.
If you think about it since these printers are made off
shore, tossing them in the land fill to be crushed will release this ant into
the environment and who knows what effect these little guys might have.
So far no word from HP but it looks to me like HP may
have a serious environmental problem. Kind of makes you wonder if someone on
the assembly line is adding a few eggs for the fun of it or HP has found an
interesting replacement motivator.
In any event the printer is effectively destroyed when
the little guys hatch.
It's time for US Customs to pull some of these printers
at the import point, open them up and check for infestation.
In the mean time, if you end up with one of these
technological ant hills you might want to put the thing in a box and ship it
back to HP. If they get enough of them, they will have to do something.
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