HP Laserjet Series II - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

1 Dec 1998

 Cleaning is an admirable thing to do but don't use alcohol. Use 
 distilled water and a lint free cloth. Moreover, on an SX based 
 printer (the HP II was introduced in 1987 I believe) cleaning the feed 
 roller and separation pad may do the trick but I doubt it. The feed 
 roller becomes glazed and hard and usually rubber restorer won't help. 
 In most cases it turns out to be a glazed roller and/or a sticky 
 clutch which is located on the end of the feed roller. I used to 
 rebuild the clutches on these in the field (it is a 20 minute job at 
 best, you need to disassemble the clutch, clean out the old 
 contaminated lubriplate from the clutch spring, then reapply 
 lubriplate and make certain you align the feed roller with the clutch 
 cam) but these whole unit replacements are so cheap nowadays I 
 wouldn't bother.

 Marty

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Subject: Re: HP Laserjet Series II
Author:  classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu at internet
Date:    12/1/98 12:05 PM

 Max,
   How old are the machines? When is the last time they were CLEANED? I am no
 genius but the idea of CLEANING the rollers is, to me, a good one. Hope this 
 suggustion helps you.
              John Amirault

 Max Eskin wrote:

...
  This is a couple of months off topic,but I'll post
it anyway. At my school, 
 there are  a couple dozen Laserjet Series IIs. I've been trying to install 
 four into one room, and for some reason almost every single one claims a   paper
...
  jam right as soon as I tell it to print ( a self test,
for example). The   paper
...
  hardly gets out of the tray, it's generally just
starting to get past the
 roller that pulls it in when the printer returns an error. Sometimes it does 
...
  this, sometimes it doesn't. Any ideas?

 Thanks  

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