Clearing Paper Jams in Laser Printers

Sometimes when printing a paper jam occurs. Often you will see a message similar to this one when this happens.

In this case the paper only fed a little ways into the printer before it jammed.

The first step you should do is to open the cover closest to where the paper is feeding in. You will then need to pull out the toner cartridge.

You should then be able to gently pull the paper out of the printer.

Sometimes the paper gets pulled in too far as seen below. Do NOT attempt to pull the paper back in this case. Doing so may damage your printer.

Instead open the rear part of the printer and gently pull the paper out WITH BOTH HANDS and using EVEN PRESSURE. To do otherwise may damage your printer or tear the paper making it much more difficult to fix the problem.

If you require further assistance, please send DoTS a workstation trouble report. If the printer in question is in a computer lab, send us instead a computer lab trouble report. If you need immediate assistance, call the DoTS HelpDesk at 715 425-4357.

Workstation trouble report
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