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Evelyn Mann Posted on May 29, 2007
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Printer jams My paper jams after moving about 3 inches. I have pulled out the tray and tried to fix it but it continues to jam.

  • Evelyn Mann May 29, 2007

    Thank you so much. I pulled off the back of the printer and found a little part of a piece of paper caught in there. I am sure that is what was stopping my paper. Now unfortunately I have another problem. Every time I try to print something it says "error printing". I tried to troubleshoot and got the showpage to print so I know that the printer and computer are connected. In the control panel by my printer it says ready and the "offline" is not checked. I did notice the printer port is DOT4_001. It says that the LPT... port is the most common. I just can't figure this out. Thank you for your help

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Have you checked the paper path for anything which might be lodged there? A small crumpled piece of paper, paper clip, or even some broken piece of plastic from inside the printer itself. Are the rubber rollers extremely dirty/covered with paper dust? Depending on the design of the printer, one set of rollers may be spring loaded, and if the spring is broken, disconnected etc, the tension on the roller of course goes away. Anything like this will prevent proper paper movement through the printer

  • Anonymous May 29, 2007

    Check your cabling if you haven't already done so. Is this printer USB or parallel port connected? If parallel, double check that the connectors are properly seated at both the computer & printer.

    I assume you are using MS Windows?

    I've seen a problem similiar to what you are experiencing. An employee at the school where I work brought in an HP all in one, and his computer- I couldn't get the thing to print. Even tried subbing a different hard disk, & doing a fresh XP load, along with a fresh driver load. After a BIOS update on the computer, things suddenly began working, but I'm not really sure that was the problem. I had tried the printer on my Dell office machine, and the thing functioned fine. I tried a different printer on his computer- you guessed it, printing was fine. I wonder if the real problem is in HP's drivers, but I don't think I found anything on HP's site regarding such an ailment. Do a Google search "HP G85 no print" and see if you can find something.

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