TheOldFellow wrote:
On Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:26:42 +0000
Lobster wrote:

I currently have an old LaserJet 5 printer - bought it off ebay for
about £35 delivered a few months ago and have been delighted with it
(not least of which because I can get original HP toner carts for it via
the same route for a tenner - many thousands of sheets of paper later
and I'm still on the first cart - what's not to like?!)

Unfortunately it's just developed a paper jam error and I'm wondering if
any of the IT gurus here might be able to advise? It's gone straight
from never jamming at all, to doing so 100% of the time: the paper is
picked up OK but jams just before it enters the fuser assembly. I've
asked a couple of commercial outfits locally but they tell me it's not
worth the cost of them even looking at it, which nearly makes my hair
bleed - I'm convinced the problem is going to be something really
trivial to someone who knows what to look for, and I'm appalled at the
thought of just skipping the printer, as advised.

I've been trawling the net for solutions; best site appears to be
www.fixyourownprinter.com which (I think) seems to be suggesting paper
sensors; if that's the case I can't find them! (I can't relate the
photos at http://www.fixyourownprinter.com/ref...des/sensors/ex
to my own machine TBH).

Any ideas, anyone? Does the paper sensor thing make sense?

Thanks
David


Pretty sure that this won't help in your case, but I had lots of problems with paper jams on printers that were
solved by cleaning the picking rollers with double-sided adhesive tape
stuck to a sheet of paper in line with the rollers.

The roller tyres gets impregnated with paper dust and it makes them
slippy instead of grippy.

That's something to keep in mind. Thanks.

Dave