mine has never jammed.
Didn’t read the article, but years of IT experience has shown me that the main issues with printer jams are keeping the printer clean, and the mechanical internals of the printer (which means that copiers are part of the same issue). If printer/copier internals, especially the various drive-gear trains, were made of higher-precision materials like steel, they’d jam less. Timing issues would be greatly minimized and wear would essentially cease to be an issue.
This is why a newspaper press lasts far longer than the average office printer even though the press has a far higher duty cycle and runs much faster. The limiting issue is cost. Metal gears currently have to be machined, which is more expensive than molding gears out of vinyl or other plastic. 3-D printing may help with this.
It’s how the paper “rolls” coming out of the package. And I’m talking about 8.5x11. Our document dude says you have to load the paper the correct way or it will not feed. He removes it from the paper packaging and fans it one direction, then flips it over and fans it again. See he says, it has to go this way. I see no difference.
We had one that jammed so often we named it Bob Marley.
Instead it now fails to feed the paper because the rollers have become covered in paper lint. I just need to clean that off and it will be good to go again.
Mine likes making paper accordions. I put those - where else? A flexible accordion folder!
Look edge on to the stack of paper. If there’s slight curl, it’ll jam. Try flipping it over with the curl facing down.
Interesting, thanks for posting.
so what makes the lines down the pages of copied papers on the feeder but not if copied from the glass.... sooooo frustrating!!
Paper jams went up by about 1/3 when wewent to recycled paper.
Every time paper is recycled, the fibers become shorter and that creates more dust that gets on the rollers. Dust on the roller is like lubricant and it won’t pick up the paper.
I had a good friend who, many years ago, went to work for HP as an ME in printer design.
The most difficult problem was handling paper; it does not want to pushed through narrow slots, get printed on, get fused and come out nice.
Demonic machines and black magic is the only stuff that works.
Did they mention the #1 cause, demonic possession?
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I have 2 hp Laserjet B&W printers total 12 years old with hundreds of thousands of copies and have never had one printer jam.