Fix a printer that no longer feeds paper correctly

I had a perfectly good printer sitting next to my desk that I had to manually push in the paper until it grabbed. Finally I got tired of doing that and found out what was going wrong.

I found that the feed mechanism uses a roller wheel that's spring loaded, and wasn't spring loaded enough. Simply enough, I pulled the spring forward and relatched it where it would make the mechanism push on the paper more.

Now it feeds fine, and cost me nothing. My tools were a paper clip bent into a long hook to pull the spring forward, and a letter opening knife to ease the spring back onto the hook.

This was done on an HP Photosmart 8050. After googling this feed issue, it seemed that there were enough out there that might like to try this with their own printer. May not work for all printers, but hopefully the same idea still applies.

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• printer
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• photosmart
• 8000
• 8050
• feeds
• paper
• feed
• mechanism
• broken

[GoodAlwaysDieYoung]

I double checked the wires and the printer.The printer is on and it is plauged into the computer,but nothing prints out because a paper was jammed inside and I dragged it.Then put the clean paper stack inside hoping that the printer would start working,but it didn't work.I restarted the computer a few times,unplauged the printer and watched solutions videos on YouTube and found nothing.The printer makes clicks and cloaks sounds once in a while.

[samten10a]

The only thing that will fix HP printer is BFH use liberally then bring printer in a box to where you purchase it along with repair tool BFH apply BFH to the general manager head for selling you defective HP printer.

[fkmvs]

How do you insert paper?

[aegergser]

Thanks mate that was a great video, i loved your visuals and i plan on trying it out.