To weigh in with my 2 cents.
First, I'm in 100% agreement with my colleagues above.
And now for a brief rant........
Copiers are NOT computers, or basic electronic devices. While they share a lot of the technologies, it goes way beyond that, with many, many moving parts, and systems working in conjunction with one another - much more like
that car, but while I'm pretty proficient with MFP's, I'm not about to think that I can rebuild a transmission!
So it grinds my gears a bit when people have the attitude of "how hard can it be?"
While your machine supposedly only has a jamming problem, that could be, and probably is, just the beginning. If it has any sort of smearing/ smudging, or image defects of any sort , it's not just going to be about just opening it up and cleaning the interior. You could very well be looking at well over a thousand dollars before you even blink, depending where the machine is on its PM cycle if it needs drum units/ transfer belt/ fuser rollers, etc. But, at this VERY LATE point in it's life, it really doesn't matter what the PM counts are, it's just really old, and consumables start to fail for that reason alone.
I agree with Slim about the newer units, but even the
xx02's can be up to 10 years old now, and I would add that most of the same rules apply regardless of the age of the unit. For example, a colour machine of this nature with 500K on the meter may actually be in better shape than than one with 200K because it may have had a lot of PM items recently replaced. There's no simple answer other than to do what many people do with that used car......have someone that knows these machines assess it first.
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