On Mon, 04 Oct 2004 15:44:27 -0400, Chuck Harris
wrote:

Andy,

Get yourself a can of WD40, and a paper towel. Spray some
WD40 onto the towel to form a wet spot. Rub the wet spot
all over the pickup roller until it is completely shiny.

Turn on your printer and it will feed perfectly for the
next few years.

Paper jams on HP laserjet 3/4/5 printers are almost
always caused by a good looking takeup roller that cannot
grip the paper. The symptom of that problem is 100% of the
time the paper not quite reaching the first feed roller.

Using WD40 sounds counter intuitive, but it works! It took
a great leap of faith for me to try it the first time (on the
recommendation of a friend who deals in surplus printers), but
I did, and it works perfectly.

-Chuck Harris


Assuming you're not being sarcastic, do you have any idea why that
helps? The only thing I can think of is that maybe the pickup roller
isn't releasing the papaer soon enough causing the first roller in the
paper feeder not to feed the paper far enough.
Andy Cuffe