[CS-FSLUG] HP 2500CM

[Timothy Butler]

Hi Tim,
	It actually is not printing anything -- as far as I can tell from  
listening, it never even tries. The heads come out, but do not seem  
to move back and forth as they would if they were trying to print.

	I was wondering if the nozzles were clogged too, but I wasn't sure  
why it kept complaining of a paper jam. That rubber refresher sounds  
interesting. There is one set of rollers I'm not sure I could easily  
get that stuff onto, but I could try it on the rest of them.

	Thanks for the suggestion!

	-Tim

On Aug 15, 2007, at 10:32 AM, Tim Young wrote:

> Well, you probably have two different problems.  One, that the first
> page is blank, and second, that it grabs multiple pages after that...
>
> I am assuming that the "print head" moves across the first page as  
> if it
> were printing something, but it remains blank?  If so, you have dried
> ink in the print-head.  This is sometimes very difficult to clean.  If
> you can, you remove the print head and soak it in rubbing alcohol  
> for an
> hour or so, then swish it around in the rubbing alcohol for a bit.  I
> have only had moderate success resurrecting a printer that had ink  
> dried
> in the print-head.  If you cannot clean it, you must either buy  
> another
> print-head or replace the printer.
>
> The multiple page thing could be a number of issues.  Often the rubber
> pick-up thing needs to have the rubber replaced, or you can clean it
> with a special solvent that will make the rubber softer.  The  
> latter is
> often the best/cheapest thing to do.  It occasionally can be simply a
> problem of "sticky paper".  If the paper has collected static
> electricity or has not been separated in a while.   You can fan the
> paper so that it is all separated from each-other before putting it in
> the tray.  But most likely you need to get some rubber revitalizer.
> (something like: http://www.maxpatchink.com/rubber-refresh.shtml -  
> this
> link was simply the first one I found on google.  I know nothing about
> the vendor.)
>
> I would try to clean out the print-head first.  If you cannot do that,
> then you will need to decide if you should replace the print-head  
> or the
> printer...  If you can get the rubber revitalizer working, then it  
> might
> be worth seeing what the print-head costs...
>
>     - Tim Young
>
> Timothy Butler wrote:
>> Hi everyone,
>> 	Does anyone have any experience with a HP 2500CM "Professional
>> Series" printer? One I use to admin at church was given to me. It has
>> been in storage for years, but as I recall, it worked fine when it
>> went into storage. It now has a peculiar problem. Whenever I try to
>> print anything, it spits one page out blank, the next page blank, and
>> right before the second page comes out, the third page begins coming
>> out -- it is blank too. (In other words, it never prints anything.)
>> I'm guessing because of the third page being pulled at the same time
>> as the very end of the second page, the printer realizes something is
>> wrong and insists there is a paper jam (there isn't).
>>
>> 	This happens if I try to print the head alignment page, the self-
>> test pages, or print something from my Mac to the JetDirect network
>> connection. Always one page that comes out blank but without issue
>> followed by a second page which is not quite all the way out when the
>> third page jumps out.
>>
>> 	I've tried cleaning the paper pulling wheels that I can get to (the
>> ones in tray three are hard to get to). It happens with both trays.
>>
>> 	Any ideas what might cause this or how to fix it? Normally, I'm not
>> much for repairing printers, but this is such a nice, heavy duty one
>> I hate to give up on it too quickly.
>>
>> 	Thanks,
>> 		Tim
>>
>>
>>
>>
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