Laser Copier Printer
What Causes Paper Jams in Copiers and Laser Printers and How to Fix Them
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This article tells how to repair many types of paper jamming in laser printers and copiers. When a copier or laser printer’s control panel declares, “paper jam” and there’s not a single piece of paper anywhere in the printer, you’re left wondering where’s the paper jam. After the machine commands a piece of paper to be sent from the paper tray it expects the paper to arrive at a sensor within a specific time. If the paper doesn’t arrive, the machine assumes it got jammed somewhere along the paper path, and it announces “paper jam.”
If you frequently have “paper jam” messages without any paper in the paper path, you’ve probably got a worn out or dirty pickup roller.
Most HP LaserJets display the error code 13 for paper jams. It starts with 0 at the paper pickup area, so a 13.0 message means the paper never arrived at the first sensor. There’s usually one at every bend in the paper path. The problem is either a bad sensor or some physical blockage of the paper path. The other type of sensor is optical - the paper breaks a light beam. Read more…
