Duplex Printing with an HP-5200

by | May 11, 2020 | Printers

I’ve been using a HP-5200tn printer to print The Mushroom Growers’ Newsletter for many years.  This printer requires a manual approach to duplex (double sided) printing.  First I print the number of copies I need of page one, flip those copies over, insert...

Fixing Jams in an HP-5200 Printer

by | May 6, 2020 | Printers

The HP-5200 has a series of ‘flags’ that track the paper through the printer.  If the paper fails to trigger one of these small plastic parts, with the correct timing, the paper will stop and a jam error will be provided. There are a three flags, that I...

Laser Printer Puts Out Black Pages

by | Mar 15, 2019 | Printers

Background I’ve been using an HP5200tn laser printer for many years.  I just received some rebuilt laser cartridges and put one into the machine to test it.  I like to keep some on hand and I test them upon receipt so that I don’t discover they are faulty...