Lexmark 3200 won't feed paper

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So, is it dead or fixable? I have this old Lexmark 3200 which has
progressively developed a problem with its paper feed. First it would
sometimes not feed the paper in all the way and you would have to sort of
shove it down the last half inch. Then it would do that more frequently,
but still if you shoved the sheet in a bit more some kind of sensor would
realize that it was there and it would start printing, but it would give you
an error message on the screen with a choice of "Ignore" and "close
program". But if you hit "ignore" it would continue to work.

Now it won't feed paper at all; it's as if the paper path is just closed,
and no amount of sheet-shoving or repeatedly hitting the form feed seems to
be doing any good.

Thoughts?

PK, Chicago
 
In the scrolls said:
So, is it dead or fixable? I have this old Lexmark 3200 which has
progressively developed a problem with its paper feed. First it would
sometimes not feed the paper in all the way and you would have to sort of
shove it down the last half inch. Then it would do that more frequently,
but still if you shoved the sheet in a bit more some kind of sensor would
realize that it was there and it would start printing, but it would give you
an error message on the screen with a choice of "Ignore" and "close
program". But if you hit "ignore" it would continue to work.

Now it won't feed paper at all; it's as if the paper path is just closed,
and no amount of sheet-shoving or repeatedly hitting the form feed seems to
be doing any good.

Thoughts?

PK, Chicago
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This sounds like the common problem, you just need to get stuff called
Platenclene. This is a rubber restorative and will help the old rubbers
for feeding/cork for separating the paper gain some of their traction
back. It happens to all printers eventually, failing that you may need
to find some rubbers for the rollers.
 
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