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Red "Paper" light stays on; printer will not print.

I stopped a printing job in the middle by turning off my printer. I took out a piece of paper that had just started to get picked up by the printer when I stopped the print job. Now the red "Paper" light keeps blinking and I cannot get it to reset to "Ready", even though there is paper in the tray and no paper jam in the printer.

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Paper light flashing could mean several things on this machine.

There could be a paper jam in the machine. Open the front cover remove the drum and toner and look in the machine. You can also check in between the drum and toner by removing the toner from the drum. Open the back cover and look for a Jam as well.

Try putting a piece of paper in the manual feed tray which is right above the paper tray, sometimes on certain documents the margins are too big and asks to go into the manual feed slot.

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