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From: henry@ZOO.TORONTO.EDU (Henry Spencer)
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Subject: Re: HPJLIII legal size paper problem...
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Date: 21 Mar 91 17:32:28 GMT
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In article <9103181601.AA11410@crayola.cs.UMD.EDU> kline@UNIX.CIS.PITT.EDU ("William E Kline") writes:
>I do not have the legal paper tray.  I am feeding the paper in the top
>of the standard tray, manually.  The page will print up to the point
>where it would normally be the end of a 8 1/2 by 11 sheet of paper
>and then I receive a paper jam message...

What is happening is very simple:  the printer is not expecting legal-size
paper.  You have to tell it, or convince your software to tell it, that it
is getting legal paper.  Otherwise it sees paper still in the machine at a
time when a letter-size sheet should have been out, and decides that there
must be a paper jam.

In the absence of a legal paper tray, you will also have to tell it that it
is getting manual feed.  On the LJn, for n >= 2, you can do manual feed
by just stuffing paper in the feed slot, but this is a special case that
only works for paper whose size matches the paper tray. 

In general, you have to tell the printer what's going on.
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