MPC 3501 - Dog ears at Tray one when printing

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  • Counsel
    Senior Tech

    500+ Posts
    • Aug 2011
    • 530

    #1

    MPC 3501 - Dog ears at Tray one when printing

    I have a mpc 3501 which seemed to be working fine before but recently 2 things occured. First the network guys were at the place setting up some user settings on the Mac, as customer is a print shop and has special programs they are using, since then when customer prints the feed timing is super slow, its printing like they are running thick 3 paper even when everything is set to plain takes forever. Copy's come out at normal speed only printing slows it down.

    Second I had removed the fuser seperation bar and installed the new fuser exit guide as a bulletin stated, I honostly see no difference in the new guide to the old one they look exactly the same.

    So heres the problem when customer prints from tray one paper either dog ears or jams at fuser, usually rear side and seems to be catching the exit guide now that the seperation bar was removed, it only does this when they print because of how slow the paper is feeding i think its sticking a bit to the roller, and it only does this out of tray 1 which is plain paper, all other trays have special thickness paper. If i make a copy using that tray they come out fine as they are much faster when feeding through the fuser.

    Any thoughts on this, I dont know why the timing is so slow when printing, and why they have a new fuser exit guide that looks exactly the same as the old one.
  • fbkhan3
    Trusted Tech

    250+ Posts
    • May 2012
    • 421

    #2
    Re: MPC 3501 - Dog ears at Tray one when printing

    Seems like someone changed the paper type from ''PLAIN'' to ''THICK PAPER'',You need to look into ''printer Driver properties>Paper Type>if it's anything other then ''plain'' change it back to Plain paper for ''Tray 1''.


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    • Counsel
      Senior Tech

      500+ Posts
      • Aug 2011
      • 530

      #3
      Re: MPC 3501 - Dog ears at Tray one when printing

      i havent hooked up anything else wanted to see what all the network guys did first. As for paper settings thats what was strange her print properties are set to plain paper for tray 1. This is the only tray with plain paper in it, auto switching is turned off for the other 3 trays they all have thick paper in them.

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      • fbkhan3
        Trusted Tech

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        • May 2012
        • 421

        #4
        Re: MPC 3501 - Dog ears at Tray one when printing

        It's really weird but you could give it a try reinstalling the print driver or as previously suggested directly hooking it up with a notebook.as long as it's fine with copy anything you fix is gotta be in the driver.

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        • Jomama46
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          • Apr 2008
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          #5
          Re: MPC 3501 - Dog ears at Tray one when printing

          Interesting, can you post a copy of that bulletin?
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