Hewlett-Packard Co has a way of sending out press releases way before the release date so that monthly publications with long editorial lead times can get the thing in in a timely fashion, but something seems to have gone wrong this time – the new OfficeJet combined printer-copier-facsimile machine (CI No 2,524) was all over Reuters in full detail, but we hailed it with is ready with rather than has launched because on the Dow Jones & Co newswire all we saw was a headline Hewlett-Packard Corp did not unveil the OfficeJet peripheral today and An earlier headline incorrectly stated that the company reported the release of the product.
