Power light blinks

[JayUK10]

The "Magi Mags" tape is in no way visible or on show because it's inside, i.e. behind, the front door cover 😉

[HarrySwi]

Absolutely brilliant solution.  Thank you.

[Twodose]

Mine is in a downstairs office away from my bedroom, but when I first got the printer I thought the same thing, I don’t know why they wouldn’t have the option to turn it off seeing that it annoys so many, to put a piece of tape over it, yes that may work, but why should you have to do this on a new product??? At least give the option to turn it off, we don’t want to have to do something so stupid as putting a piece of tape over it, I know that I have mine set up to receive a fax, so every time I pick up the phone the printer acts as if I am I am sending something to print, then goes into sleep mode and starts blinking, I agree HP, you should give the option to have the blinking light turn off.

[Bdrys]

Hi JayUK10.

Unfortunately for the m477fdw the power button with the light sits flush with the cover.  I.e. the cover has a rectangular hole in it that is a little bigger than the button itself.  This means you cannot solve this by putting something inside.  I will replace my taped on piece of cardboard that still bleeds some light with a taped on small piece of aluminum foil tape that will absolutely block the light though it will sure look ugly.

So really the true solution is for HP to give a software option in the settings in their fancy touch screen user interface that says:

Flashing Standby Light:  YES (default)  NO

and you simply select the one you (the purchaser and user) wants.  Come on HP it's only 0 and 1s, its not hard and given that these are on a network can even be an OTA update.

You can tell this still annoys me after all this time. B

[rodrigofd]

You sir, are a genius 👍🏻

[OldSchoolDad]

As mentioned by someone else, just pop open the front cover (very easy) and put a piece of black tape on the button.  Electrical tape worked great.  When you close the cover, you don't notice a thing.  And no more annoying blink.