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Blew the fuse ? You mean in the wiring, not the printer ?

Yes, one of our home fuses.

You must load it with something, A 50 ohm would do but would have
to be like a 20 watt. best you use a 100 watt regular light bulb. When
not heated it should be way less than 100 ohms and will provide a load
to see what happens. If the 18 volts drops like a rock it is the
adapter, but then test by substitution, you should be able to find an
18 volt source somewhere.

I tried it out, really!

This is very good advice, but unfortunately the bulb gets midly warm and
the wall wart constantly delivers 18V... So it seems we have a
perfectly working 18V power supply, but a printer/scanner/fax without
electronics. (Like Murphys law: "The expensive transistor will die to
protect the fuse")

[...lots of more good advice shortened]
Don't get me wrong, HPs aren't bad printers, but the extra money they
cost is a waste, and I found the support to be no better than the
others.

Yes, and I'm sure not buy combi devices again. I wouldnt have done
either, but this one was a gift...

Our next printer will probably be a Canon IP4K.
Not checked the market for scanners, yet. This one HP which is
transparent seems to be at least geeky... but, its HP... :-(
And of course our modems all can fax.

Thanks again for your help!

Wolfram