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Posted on May 15, 2008

C3180 feeding paper but not printing

The drivers are up to date. It worked fine until I changed the black ink cartlidge. I've gone thru all the troubleshooting avenues I can find, yet it keeps feeding paper through without printing. Any ideas?

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  • ma jackson May 20, 2008

    printer does not print and lifts up more than one sheet at a time and it feeds without printing

  • marysphi Sep 09, 2008

    Same here. Feeding but not printing.

  • patrik b Sep 27, 2008

    The printer is feeding with standard A4 paper just until have way. Then printer stops and the power button starts to blink If I try to turn of the printer it spit out the paper and takes a new sheet. Power button stays blinking until power supply is disconnected.

  • schuylerwitt Nov 12, 2008

    I have just about the same problem, mine did that and then every job went on que and while trying to print says error, pstopdffilter stopped unexpectedly with a status 1.  What the hell does that mean, and how do I fix it?  HP customer service sucks.  Hopefully you guys will be of some help.   :)




    Witt

  • shamaria Mar 02, 2009

    I have the same problem the other guy did. The paper feeds through until halfway, and then the light starts to blink and nothing comes out. The check paper light doesn't even come on anymore. It won't print or copy; I haven't tried to scan.

  • Ben Johnson May 11, 2010

    Is there anything on this page that looks like what you're seeing?



    http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/docum...

  • Anonymous Mar 28, 2014

    will feed paper and papers in correct way no ink showing

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I ended up unplugging the unit for a few minutes. It fixed the problem...

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