The funny thing is, I can actually see you doing this.

My old printer decided that the day before a major term paper was due that it didn't want to work. Then when it finally did start to actually do something, it just printed blank pages, something it had never done before. So I punched it into submission. When I bought my new printer, I sat it beside the old one for a little while so that it knew what would happen to it if it ever started giving me shit. It's worked fine so far for two years+