[vcf-midatlantic] [OT] Cleaning a Laser printer paper pickup

Chris Fala chrisjpf33 at gmail.com
Tue Jul 20 23:01:21 UTC 2021


I agree completely. Those rollers just die and need to be replaced.

On Tue, Jul 20, 2021 at 5:15 PM Kenneth Gober via vcf-midatlantic <
vcf-midatlantic at lists.vcfed.org> wrote:

> My experience with HP printers is that the rubber paper pickup roller gets
> hard/slick so that it doesn't pull paper properly.  If you can't get new
> rollers for your printer, there are chemicals out there that might restore
> the rubber enough that it will grab paper again.  I haven't ever used the
> chemicals because (so far) I've been able to get my hands on replacement
> rollers.
>
> -ken
>
> On Tue, Jul 20, 2021 at 5:12 PM Neil Cherry via vcf-midatlantic <
> vcf-midatlantic at lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
>
> > Sort of off topic as it's not really vintage, It's about 10 years old and
> > I'm not
> > about to toss a working printer. :-)
> >
> > I have a working multi-function printer. The only issue is that its paper
> > feed
> > only partially picks up the paper then 'jams' or gets a no paper message.
> > I'm
> > pretty certain that the printer just needs a good cleaning (it's covered
> in
> > dust). Any pointers? What works best on the pickups?
> >
> > It's a Brother MFC-7860DW (Wireless).
> >
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