Laserjet 6L feeds 4-10 sheets of paper at a time?

[RagManX]

Several years ago, I bought my wife an HP Laserjet 6L. It has worked fine for years, but recently (past few months, actually) it has started pulling 4-10 sheets of paper through the printer each time it prints a page. I have no idea how to even approach fixing this problem. Has anyone experienced this? Any suggestions on how to fix it?

Thanks,

RagManX

 

[TexDotCom]

One simple thing to try is to make sure that humidity and/or static electricity are not causing the pages to stick together. This has caused multiple pages to feed at once for me a lot of times. Check that the paper is completely dry, especially if the air in the room is particularly humid. Also, in times of cool weather and low humidity, static electricity has more of a tendency to build up. You can thumb through the pages like you would a stack of dollar bills, then try printing again to see if this seperates the pages better.

If none of this works, you might need to have that printer inspected to make sure there are not any parts that have gotten broken or worn.

Hope this helps.

Edit: I stand corrected by the HP Expert cchan (). Sorry I may have steered you wrong...I only had the best intentions.

 

[cchan]

This is actually a known defect for all HP Laserjet 5L/6L/1000/1100 printers where the paper gets pulled in from the top. That's why they redesigned the new Laserjet 1000 and 1200 to pull the paper in from the bottom and come out on top.

I have 20 6L's at my office and half of them have exhibited this problem (people have to load one sheet at a time) and the other half are showing signs (i.e. it does it once it a while). The 1100s that we have had a free pad replacement to prevent this problem. You have to pay for the separation pad (it is a little rubber/eraser-like thing that grabs the paper) for the 6L. I believe that HP offers replacements for free. This will fix the printer for a few more years until the pad wears our again.

Go here to order your free customer installable separation pad kit. *Edit - fixed link*

 

[Paladin]

Same problem here with my 5L at work. What I do to prevent it is to make sure there is TONS of paper in the feeder at the top. It won't happen then, until the supply gets low.