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Your 3P printer with the 52 error is going to need a scanner motor assembly. Have somebody local look at it before you put money into this printer. Considering its' age it just maybe looking to retire.
Your printer may be "trusty", but the real operative here is OLD. The IIIp was introduced in 1991, that makes it almost 20 years old. It isn't supported anymore. If your new computer is running Win7, you might want to try the 'universal print drivers'. Just plug the printer in and see if the OS picks it up. If it doesn't, you are going to have to retire the beast.
Was this happening before you swapped toner? Is there toner streaks on the drum? Yes? Defective. What if you stop the printer (open cover) as it passes through the fuser to determine if image is from drum or fuser? But really....isn't it time to move on anyway???
HP IIP/IIP+/IIIP most likely cause is burned out quartz lamp. Order the HP IIP/IIIP 50 Service Error Repair Kit. Could also be a failure of the power supply.
HP 4/4+/5 most likely cause is burned out quartz lamp. Order the HP 4 Service 50 Error Repair Kit. Could also be a failure of the power supply.
HP 4L/4P/5L/5P/6L/6P most likely cause is a bad ceramic heating element.
All
other printers most likely cause is burned out quartz lamp. In rare
instances the ac power supply has failed. Even rarer, the DC controller
is defective
On the HP 2
series you have to replace both the dc controller and formatter boards.
On all other printers it can be several things: DC controller,
formatter, main motor
I just looked at windows xp and the drivers for HP Laserjet IIIP are included with windows xp.
Go to START, SETTINGS, PRINTERS and FAXES (if using the classic menu, I'm not using the XP menu system or go to the control panel, select classic icons and select Printers and Faxes either way will work. ) once inside the printer and faxes window, choose "Add Printer" Click NEXT, click Local Printer, click NEXT, click the port you will be using (With that old of a printer methinks it will be LPT1:) click NEXT, The driver selection screen will come up, Choose HP on the left hand side of that screen and HP LaserJet IIIP is on the bottom part of the list on the right hand side of the screen (They are not listed in number order like you might assume they are). Click HP LaserJet IIIP and click NEXT, It will ask for a printer name and you can keep the default name, Click either yes or no about the question "do you want to use this printer as the default printer?" and click NEXT, Click if you are going to share the printer and click NEXT, answer "Do you want to print a test page?" click NEXT and it should install the drivers for that printer and print a test page once installed. Then click FINISH on the last page and your printer should be installed.
HI there make sure that the paper tray guides are fully against the paper also try sending the job through the manual feed to see if you get the same problem. If you do not then it maybe that the paper cassette separation pad is worn and will need replacing. If your model has no rubber pad at the front of the cassette then you will have a metal hold over one corner of the paper make sure that when the paper lifts that the paper sits under the silver (Dog Ear) as this acts as a separator.
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