[rescue] Trying to figure out a rescued HP 4000T printer

Robert Novak rnovak at indyramp.com
Mon Jun 2 20:57:19 CDT 2003


On Mon, 2 Jun 2003, Dan Sikorski wrote:

> On Mon, 2003-06-02 at 20:21, Robert Novak wrote:
> > Yeah, I stand in front of it and tip it backwards, and it is happy. If I
> > leave it flat, or tipped less, I get a "13.1 PAPER JAM OPEN INPUT TRAYS
> > THEN OPEN AND CLOSE TOP COVER" message.
>
> I'll assume that the pickup rollers are in good shape.  Does it do the
> same when printing out of both tray 2 and 3? (the T on 4000TN means a
> second 500 sheet tray, if you don't have it, it would technically be a
> straight 4000 seeing as you don't have the network card.)  How about
> tray 1? (manual feed tray)

It has two trays plus manual feed. ANd it does the 13.1 thing even if no
tray is installed, so I don't think it's the paper tray. I suspect it's
something inside.

I may have a buyer for it already, so it may not be much of an issue.

> P.S.  I should have the service manual for the 4000 in a pdf.  I'll try
> to find it.

Found it at
http://www.katun.com/resourcecenter/printer-service-guides.html under
C3980-91078 ...

Thanks,
Rob



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