Pickup-and-feed unit
The pickup-and-feed unit picks an individual sheet of paper from the multipurpose tray or the cassettes,
carries it through the secondary-transfer unit, and feeds it into the fuser.
Figure 1-35 Pickup-and-feed unit
Pickup-and-feed block
Duplex media path
Simplex media path
Cassette pickup
Following are the sequence of steps for the cassette-tray pickup operation.
NOTE: Tray 1 and Tray 2 are optimal for paper pickup when using special paper or media other than 20lb
plain paper. For Tray 1 and Tray 2 the product increases the number of attempts to pickup a page, which
increases the reliability of successfully picking the page from the tray and decreases the possibility of a mis-
pick jam.
HP recommends using Tray 1 or Tray 2 if the product is experiencing excessive or reoccurring jams from trays
other than Tray 1 and Tray 2, or for print jobs that require media other than 20lb plain paper.
1. The product is turned on or the cassette is inserted.
2. The cassette lift-up operation raises the lifting plate so paper can be picked up.
3. The pickup motor rotates when a print command is received from the formatter.
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