--- On Thu, 6/18/09, Brian Lanning <brianlanning at gmail.com> wrote:
When I open the printer, the page is slightly mangled,
so I
think it's
a jam. I can also hear the paper crinkling right
before it reports
the jam. It's also pinched on a roller at the top of
the page before
the fuser. But only maybe 1/4" is under the
roller. It gives me a
little resistance when I pull the page out. The error
is 13.5 and it
tells me to check the back paper tray.
Check the whole paper path for bits of paper, paper clips, shredded fuser bits, junk, etc.
That kind of an error is usally an obstruction or something. Take out the toner cartridge,
fuser, transfer roller, etc, and blow all the dust and crud out of the paper path. Check
that the transfer roller bushings are good and that it turns freely. Check that
there's not a bit of paper stuck in the registration assembly. There are also two
sensor flags in the fuser (an entry and an exit). Check to be sure that a bit of fuser
hasn't gotten stuck in them... Also, if I remember correctly, there's a little
conveyor belt looking thing in there too - make sure nothing is preventing it from moving
freely. Honestly, with some of these printers, I wind up taking out the paper tray, the
fuser, toner, everything you can easily remove, and turn them upside down and shake.
It's amazing the crud that falls into a printer. I fixed a nagging jam problem in one
machine by just
cleaing out the paper clips.
But, if your fuser is that torn up, I can just about garuntee you'll get a ton of jams
in the fuser. But the paper should at least make it there. Manually turn through the fuser
by turning the gear, and make sure that the ragged edges are "smooth" and
won't catch easily on the paper.
Is that the 13.5 that appears on the display or is it
something else?
Yeah, that's all - but the status log give a history of jams, in case you can't
reproduce the problem, or if you want to see all the other places the paper is getting
stuck. I generally have to resort to that, since intermittent jams always seem to behave
themselves when I'm present. :)
-Ian