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Printer Printing Crooked!

I have an old Laserjet 2100 that works great except for one small (major) problem....Everything that comes out of the printer is cockeyed! It doesn't appear to be a feed issue as there is no binding, and all of the edges of the paper are crisp and not damaged. Anyone have any idea what could be causing this, or how I can fix it?

Thanks in advance!!

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Try printing from the multi purpose tray...do you get the same problem...if not you can narrow the problem down to the paper tray area...try changing main pickup roller and separation pad. If problem is present printing from either tray then the next place I would go is to the registration assembly (flapped unit that resides under the toner cartridge). The job of the part is to line the paper up before it feeds further in to the printing process. You could also do whats called a 1/2 test...put paper in the mp tray, do a print and when there is only about 2-3 inches of the paper sticking out the mp tray open the toner lid...lift out the toner cartridge and see if paper is skewed before entering the fuser. It really does sound like the registration assembly.

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