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_at_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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