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My new phone is here! And it only took me four tries to enter the internet password correctly, even though I was staring right at it the whole time!

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I've been too busy to get to the front-end, but I'm hoping to this weekend. I need to get a lot done on the front-end of my wife's study software and that's what gets adapted into my example.

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Printer question. I have a Brother HL-2140. Tonight I tried to print my taxes. After printing the first 6 pages, it jammed. I clear the jam, and resumed. It would print the first page, and kinda jam as it spit it out, and the second page would be stuck in the works. Clear the problem, try again. Same result. OK, then I tried printing just one page, and it still started to feed a second page and jammed. Why? I said print one page. OK, so I try to print using the front single feeder rather than the paper cassette. Works great, no problem. So I try from the paper cassette again, and it jammed again.

I suspect the drum is the issue. It's original drum, and the printer is 7 years old or so. I rarely use it. Lately, the most I print is a sheet for UPS to leave packages at the door.

1) Any clue what the problem is and how to fix it?

2) Should I just buy a replacement. Quill dot com has a HLL2320D on sale for $40.

I hate to throw something out that works.

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I'm not sure it's the drum. The paper has to go past that whether it's coming from the cassette or the feeder. It sounds more likely that it's something to do with the paper pickup from the cassette. As printers age the rubber wheels that feed the paper get less pliable and misfeed.

A couple of things to try, if you haven't already. Make sure that there aren't any slivers of paper from the original jam still stuck in the printer. Since the single feed seems okay, that should narrow down the area you need to search.

Clear out the computer's print queue, then power down the printer completely to make sure there's nothing sticking around in its buffer. Turn it back on and print a test page from the cassette to see what happens. In Windows you can do that from general tab of the printer properties window. I don't know how to do it from a Mac, but it should be similar.

If the test page prints okay, check the print settings in your application to make sure that the width of your document is 8.5" or less (if not, that would explain the second sheet you're getting, although not the jams).

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I hate to throw something out that works.

But, it doesn't. Get the new one.

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Make sure that there aren't any slivers of paper from the original jam still stuck in the printer. Since the single feed seems okay, that should narrow down the area you need to search.

Yeah, I was checking in after each failed print. Even had the flashlight out. All clear. The paper crinkled a lot, but no rips/tears.

Clear out the computer's print queue, then power down the printer completely to make sure there's nothing sticking around in its buffer.

Was doing that each time I cleared a jam. Not reaching into something plugged in.

But, it doesn't. Get the new one.

Ha. Well, mostly it does. But yeah, since I'm getting a tax refund, and it was only $40 on sale, that's what I ended up doing.

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It could be (have been) a particle of pre-animate matter, caught in the matrix.

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It could be (have been) a particle of pre-animate matter, caught in the matrix.

But wouldn't that result in a cat walking by twice or something? I saw no cats.

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I have a theory. It could be dust bunnies.

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