My refurbished Laserjet 6P was working pretty well until it started to get a continuous paper jam. Or rather, that's what it thinks. The printer starts to do a print job then stops with the jam light on, but there is no real paper jam. The sheet starts to go through the printer, but doesn't get far and doesn't get jammed, yet the printer thinks there's a jam. I can't even get the thing to print a test sheet. Does anyone have any idea what's wrong here?
Ron
You still have a jam, you just haven't found it yet. It's probably just a piece of the original paper that jammed in the first place. Did the first paper you removed tear at all when you pulled it out?
uhm... the rubber things that feed the paper... try to scour them with glass paper
...............................and then throw it in the bin.
Use washing up detergent in warm water and never anything more abrasive than one of those green plastic scouring pads.
yeh, what he said.
ehm.... i've tried this with some inkjets and worked at 100% ... ..
Nope, I checked for little pieces of torn paper and other usual suspects but no joy; it just says there's a paper jam.
Ron
"inty's world" hath wroth:
Won't work well with all printers. The idea is to make the surface sticky. What abrasive attack does it put gouges into the surface, which effectively reduces the contact area, and causes feed failures. There are smelly chemicals that will soften the rubber sufficiently to recover functionality, but they don't last very long.
On some rubber feed rollers, I can flip over the rubber band and use the other side. However, that won't work on the HP 6P.
I suggest the OP purchase a rebuild kit:
-- Jeff Liebermann jeffl@comix.santa-cruz.ca.us 150 Felker St #D http://www.LearnByDestroying.com Santa Cruz CA 95060 http://802.11junk.com Skype: JeffLiebermann AE6KS 831-336-2558
"inty's world" hath wroth:
Won't work well with all printers. The idea is to make the surface sticky. What abrasive attack does it put gouges into the surface, which effectively reduces the contact area, and causes feed failures. There are smelly chemicals that will soften the rubber sufficiently to recover functionality, but they don't last very long.
On some rubber feed rollers, I can flip over the rubber band and use the other side. However, that won't work on the HP 6P.
I suggest the OP purchase a rebuild kit:
-- Jeff Liebermann jeffl@comix.santa-cruz.ca.us 150 Felker St #D http://www.LearnByDestroying.com Santa Cruz CA 95060 http://802.11junk.com Skype: JeffLiebermann AE6KS 831-336-2558
there are a multitude of paper sensors all the way through the paper path, it only needs one to either be jammed or a small piece of paper stuck in it for the printer to assume its a full blown paper jam, some sensors need to open and close after a set time , its not uncommon for a user to remove a jam and dislodge a sensor in the process
If there was a tiny sliver of paper in there before it was refurbished, it may have worked its way out of whatever crack it was hiding in, and lodged in a photogate sensor. This can also happen as little wads of lint migrate around inside the printer.
The printer also has several levers that are held in the paper path by gravity and pushed up as the paper goes through. They can be easily broken or wedged into one position if you have to forcibly extract a crumpled sheet of paper.
Mr Fixit ha escrito:
maybe try opeing the unit up and using a compressed air spray to 'dust it out'??
-b.
Thanks for the link; I didn't know there *were* such sensors. But I can't tell from the picture, where the beasties are located.
Ron
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