Printer tells me to load paper and it already is loaded.

The paper is loaded properly - just regular 20# weight. the printer prints one page and then tells me to load the paper. If I just hit Continue, it prints another page, but only one page. I am going nuts and ready to throw the darn thing out!!! I've had this printer about two months and it started doing this a couple of weeks ago. The troubleshooting thingie is useless! I am over the moon with frustration!

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It sounds like you have the printer set on Manual Feed. This is common when you are hand feeding single sheets like resume paper rather than using the tray. I would suggest looking at the default settings on your printer object on your computer or maybe there are settings within the 1020?

Posted on Jun 19, 2007

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