[Hidden-tech] Help... laser printer won't feed paper. Ideas?

[Robert Heller]

At Wed, 14 May 2008 16:37:10 -0400 "DAVID F. FARKAS" <david at farkas.com> wrote:

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> Hi all...
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> I have a Konica Minolta color laser printer. Cheap and has been 
> totally fine. Until... lately has been a bit finicky about feeding 
> paper. Now seems to be balking completely. I don't find any paper in 
> the machine. I just attempts to grab the paper and then doesn't.
> 
> Any of the tech hardware gurus have laser printer repair chops and 
> some advice? I'm guessing this is not uncommon and one just needs to 
> know the secret handshake. Or at least I hope so.

Just guessing, but I've had similar problems with printers not feeding
paper.  There are a various rough-surfaced 'rubber' (or some
rubber-like plastic) rollers that are supposed to 'grab' the paper and
feed it into the printer. These rollers either wear out (become really
smooth, / slippery) or just get dirty (and become smooth / slippery).
Sometimes *careful* application of a cleaning (or roller restoririve)
fluid will fix this.  Sometimes you just need to replace the rollers.

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