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.
Maybe I've always been here.
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Gudanov - Mar 18, 2016 12:18:51 pm PDT #24789 of 25496
Coding and Sleeping
omnis_audis - Mar 20, 2016 9:49:36 pm PDT #24790 of 25496
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir
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.
DXMachina - Mar 21, 2016 4:14:04 am PDT #24791 of 25496
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
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).
javachik - Mar 21, 2016 11:10:17 am PDT #24792 of 25496
Our wings are not tired.
I hate to throw something out that works.
But, it doesn't. Get the new one.
omnis_audis - Mar 21, 2016 8:32:37 pm PDT #24793 of 25496
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir
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.
DCJensen - Mar 22, 2016 8:30:59 am PDT #24794 of 25496
All is well that ends in pizza.
It could be (have been) a particle of pre-animate matter, caught in the matrix.
omnis_audis - Mar 22, 2016 12:10:12 pm PDT #24795 of 25496
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir
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.
javachik - Mar 22, 2016 1:13:03 pm PDT #24796 of 25496
Our wings are not tired.
I have a theory. It could be dust bunnies.
omnis_audis - Mar 22, 2016 4:47:48 pm PDT #24797 of 25496
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir
I have a theory. It could be dust bunnies.
In this house (single guy not good at cleaning), that is a distinct possibility!
beekaytee - Mar 22, 2016 5:23:15 pm PDT #24798 of 25496
Compassionately intolerant
Oh god. I get that broken script message all the time o_a. I thought it meant I need to get a new computer...that, plus wicked maddening slow + way crashy.
But, if YOU get it.
I had to skip all the code talk...do you have a solution?
Okay, so I asked, before the end of the year, when I should buy a new Mac.
Is now the right time?
I found a 27 inch, but I wonder if mid 2015 is appreciably less valuable than late 2015.
Thoughts?