[rescue] Tektronix printer
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Thu Apr 15 10:43:50 CDT 2004
Mark Price wrote:
> Does anyone here know a lot about these beasts?
>
> I rescued a Tektronix Phaser 550. It looks like a nice sturdy color
> laser but is giving me some problems. When I send a print job, it
> will warm up, then start making clunking noises (sounds like knocking
> on wood) then sometimes it will "Jam at A". When it jams, the paper
> has come half way out of the tray and started going through the
> rollers, but there is no jam or wrinkled paper..
>
> any ideas or printer troubleshooting links would be appreciated.. I've
> been googling
>
> Mark
Sounds like a displaced sensor. Dunno abut this model tektronix but I
had the same issue with an laser and it turned out that a sensor was
just snapped out of it's thing. And therefore it didnt detect that the
paper got to the certain point.
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