Please help me understand what the difference is between plugging a laser printer into the surge side of the UPS (with no battery backup) as opposed to directly into the wall, if they are both receiving direct AC current. As I would understand it, there is no battery power involved and the laser printer is dead if the power goes out. In Jimmie's case, he had plugged the laser printer into the battery backup directly.
Bert-are you saying there is no way to protect a laser printer from a power surge? It would seem to me that banning use of the surge protector would be a good way for the printer manufacturers to make money selling more printers when customers' printers are destroyed from a power surge.
