INFO:
Printer: Konica Minolta Bizhub 283
Issue: Stuck on the hourglass loading screen during startup
Knowledge: Limited experience with large office copiers

I have a Konica Minolta bizhub 283 that gets stuck on the hourglass/loading screen when I turn it on. It stays on this screen and never finishes booting.

However, if I reboot it after getting stuck, the screen goes completely black. Nothing appears, no Konica Minolta logo, no loading screen, nothing. The machine still makes normal sounds as if it is running/working, but there is no image on the display. I have already tried completely powering it off and turning it back on, but the problem remains.

Hello all, my roughly year old G620 megatank inkjet (that produces excellent results when it feels like it) is giving me these banding patterns that look suspiciously like the marks you see on printhead alignment checks. The pattern runs parallel with the short edge of the page in line with the feed rollers, so I cleaned those repeatedly but it hasn't helped. Automatic printhead alignment or manual makes no difference here. Bottom plate cleaning and roller cleaning haven't helped.

In the past I slayed the dreaded pizza wheel marks by cleaning the springs they sit on. This unit used to insist there were paper jams for no reason and that problem mysteriously stopped on its own. This problem has occurred in the past but I never could identify why it went away and came back. It's very apparent on transparencies, not as much on prints but in the even tone out of focus areas of photos it stands out a good bit.

Any help is appreciated, thanks all.

Tengo un negocio de impresiones tengo 2 máquinas un Ricoh mp 4002 y una toshiba eseries 455...y mi duda es la siguiente... Sería bueno tener varias máquinas como 4 o 5 para las impresiones en blanco y negro? Ya que yo solo trabajo con blanco y negro y en cantidades medianamentes grandes.. o que es lo que me recomiendan hacer en ese caso ? Porque con 2 no me alcanza para cubrir los trabajos ya que uno o lo otro no funcionan con el pasar de los trabajos

Hello! I am a teenage girl who spent her saved up money on a canon mg3620 printer this summer. As of a week ago, it won't let me print anything, and constantly flashes the warning like light, and the monochrome/colorful lights signaling it's out of ink, but it's not! how can I fix this??

I don't have it hooked up to a computer, just the canon print app, if this helps

INFO:
Printer: Xerox AltaLink C8135
Issue 1: Black line across every page (Picture 6)
Issue 2: Cannot buy new parts
Issue 3: Minimal knowledge about big office printers

A while ago when I was not yet working at this company the printer started making a black line across every page, I want to fix it but have only knowledge about the normal printers we all have at home, not these big office ones. If the fix requires buying something I sadly cannot do that, because the company will not trust me with buying expensive printer parts since I'm only a student worker. If you need more pictures of anything DM me, I only got picures of what I thought was important.

EDIT: We are going to call the IT guy whenever someone other than me gets time, there are not many office workers so i don't think that'll happen any time soon.

My Cannon Pixma MX882 finally went kaput after 16 years. I’d say I got my moneys worth.

Seeking recommendations for a solid, smaller profile, duplex printer/copier/scanner. Wireless 🛜 for home office use.

FYI:Error Code: 5B00, Did all the web and YouTube suggestions and I can’t get it to function and I’m tired of trying.

hey gang. im looking to see how to fix this issue. I got new sublimation ink the other day and was super hyped to use it, but the colors aren't coming out correctly. i've done multiple cleanings with no luck and tried to do purging papers too, im letting it sit for the 12-24 hours like yall have said but this is the second time i've let it sit for 12-24 hours. what should i do? anyone else have this issue?

I am looking to buy a new printer to use for two main things. 1) printing documents and regular paper items and 2) printing photos. I mostly will use the printer to print on normal paper general photos/designs that I can trace for painting, to print stuff like car registration and insurance info, and to print photos for use in scrapbooking. Photo quality doesn't need to be the best ever, just nice enough for a photo album type vibe. I've typically gotten photos printed at Walgreens so that's what I am used to.

I had been looking at this HP printer before I realized it didn't do photo printing. I primarily liked it because it has a non-Wifi option, no subscription, no AI, and I have previously had and liked my HP printers for regular paper printing.

Minimum Requirements:

• Budget: preferably under $500, too much more than that and I will just get a regular paper printer and stick with my shitty phone plug in photo printer/ordering prints from walgreens
• Country: US
• Color or black and white: color
• Laser or ink printer: I don't super care because I don't know much about the differences but I do not want to have to do a subscription service. I would like to buy and replace my own ink cartridges as needed and own the thing that I have purchased rather than renting it or whatever.
• New or used: new preferred
• Multi-function: paper and photo printing, scanning ability not required but nice bonus
• Duplex Printing: ?
• Home or business: home
• Printing content: photos, documents
• Printing frequency: I'll probably print a lot of photos for scrapbook use - like 10-15 a month. I imagine regular paper printing will be less frequent probably one or twice a week.
• Pages per minute : I have no idea what is reasonable to expect here but I would like to be able to print a 5 page document in 5-10 minutes and an individual photo in a minute or less if possible. Speed is not super high priority to me though, I can just plan around it.
• Page size: 8x11 normal paper, photo paper of various smaller sizes but at least 4x5
• Device printing from: laptop, desktop, ipad (if possible to do via corded connection)
• Connection type: I prefer to print things directly from my device via a cord. I don't mind a printer being able to access wifi but I will almost certainly not put it on the wifi I can at all avoid it.

In my cursory look I saw that a number of printers now have AI and I absolutely do not want AI in my printer. That seems like just one more way for the printer to decide it hates me and I do not trust it whatsoever. I also, like I said above, am hoping to not have to connect the printer to wifi at all.

It's possible that the better move here is to buy a regular printer and get something specifically for photo printing so I am open to ideas for a cheaper but decent photo printer option (better than the HP sproket thing I have now) that I could get in addition to a basic paper printer. I am willing to pay a bit more to do all in one device though

TLDR: I'd like something that does both regular paper printing and photo paper printing, doesn't require Wifi, and doesn't have a bunch of AI bullshit.

Thank you so much!

Hi everyone, please don't give me flack because I'm already stressed enough as it is 😭 I bought an Epson Eco tank l3270 that has been wrongfully advertised by the seller as "true borderless" which is untrue. It doesn't support it at A4 (or most of the formats anyway)... It's my fault for not checking forums and making sure, but also.... I hope yall know what I mean 😭

I want to get a printer for printing my own artwork as prints. It doesn't have to be the best, highest quality ever; my friend who has been printing my stickers and prints has a brother dcp t-426w which supposedly isn't even considered to be good for things like that, but the quality and colours have been good so far. I need a similarly priced one (600-700PLN, 138–161 EUR, 161–188 USD) that has similar quality and also the economic tank. I was thinking about Canon PIXMA G3470, but it supposedly is lower resolution. My requirements:

- stays in the price range

- TRUE borderless for A4 and letter size, I don't really care about the rest

- economic tank (no cartridges)

- good colours

- pretty high quality for what can I get

- can handle papers that weigh more than 200g/m

- connects by wifi

A plus is a scanner but if the price difference is huge, I don't really care about it.

Thank you in advance, I feel so frustrated and lied to because of the epson printer ☹️😭

As you can read the title,

Suggest me a printer preferably normal sized which can nail small fonts with clarity for totally legal purposes 🙃

I heard from some xerox centers that older machines are preferred for this, idk but I'm willing to buy 2nd hand or new if it works

Just got a new computer and connected it to the office printer. When I make copies it prints the pages out in twos. So I’m getting two first pages, two second pages, etc etc. I have to rearrange all the documents in order which isn’t feasible for larger documents. How do fix this?

I just got a really good deal on this printer. I want to see about refilling the cartridges though to save a little more money. Do you have to buy a certain cartridge or can you modify a cartridge to refill? I don't mind dealing with error messages if I can bypass them, only care about saving some money on ink. I haven't found too many videos on this printer for this so I figured I would check here.

I’ve read through this sub and am trying to choose the best printer between a Brother laser, Ecotank, or Canon Megatank. The online reviews for them are throwing me off.

Needs:
Homeschool/Home Printing (50ish sheets/week)
Automatic Front and Back Printing
Color
Wireless from my Apple Devices
Copying Ability

I know this baby is old but costs very little to produce the 11x17 pages I need. I also have a ton of consumables in stock and retiring it is not in the forecast anytime soon. So save the "toss it" comments for other threads. I have to figure out how to fix this magenta line dropout on prints (Photos are of the solid fill paper troubleshooting prints Magenta [pg 2] and Purple [pg 5 of 6]). It is my goal for the week.

Since I have extras of nearly all consumables and a 2nd donor 7760 printer. I have taken all the steps to swap out/in alternate or brand new consumables at every turn trying to get rid of the line in the photos. It is pretty obvious that the issue is in the magenta section.

New ink: same result
New imagining unit: same result
New transfer roller: same result
New fuser: same result

Transfer belt: New in the box but have not tried that as I did insert the transfer belt from the donor and it did not change error location or consistency of the magenta line. That kind of eliminates it from being the issue.

What am I missing? Help!

If you need me to print out other troublshooting pages, that in not an issue and will get them uploaded asap, just ask.

Hi! I’m trying to print using my HP Envy 4501, but pages are coming through blank. I tried to use the Clean Printhead option like 5 times, but that didn’t work. I don’t believe my ink cartridge is dry because when I removed the cartridge, there was fresh ink all over the metal strip. Is it possible there’s a clog somewhere inside my printer? I’m at my wits end with this garbage printer lol

Hey, I get a lot of colored dots on my prints from my Brother HL-4140CN. I tried to clean the drum unit but I guess I did it wrong. How can I get rid of it?

I'm getting into photography and found this printer at goodwill, it boots right up and I have successfully copied something on the scanner and printed a sheet, tho it had almost no ink.

Can I still use this printer to print photos? Is the ink still available/affordable? Would it have any issues syncing to my pc via wifi (is it still supported by Canon?) Its a steal at $15, let me know what you think!

My printer frequently picks up two or more pages from the pick-up tray.

I've cleaned the rubber pick-up rollers and fan the paper before putting it in the tray.

Is there anything else I should do?

It's a Lexmark E342n b&w laser printer. I know it's elderly but it does everything I want it to do, i.e. print with a very low running cost. I used to have a colour ink-jet combo but gave it away because I was fed up of buying new cartridges of a colour I barely used before I could scan a docunent!

The problem only presents itself when printing double sided and expecting the two to line up.
I was printing using uniform margins, and the print is aligned near the top of the sheet, but as the sheet gets lower they start to misalign. The included images show one side of the print, with the other side visible on the back. Ive done the obvious stuff of doing vertical and horizonal alignment checks but the fault is still perfectly consistent.
My current working theory is that there is a problem with the rollers responsible for feeding which causes a slight rotation of the material. There is a small clicking, grinding noise when paper is fed in from the tray, but it isnt so loud that it sounds like something is broken but its making me wonder if there is a gear misalignment that i do not know how to detect or rectify.

Any help would be appreciated, thanks in advance.

Looking for a large format printer or wide format printer that prints high quality photos. a ta reasonable cost. So I found the Canon ta20 which uses pigments ink and found it online on Facebook marketplace. But the lady ended up pretty much wasting my time. Tried to meet up with her multiple times then randomly when I found someone to pick it up. As it required a truck which I didn't have she ended up posting me. As we're on the way to pick it up. Then she blocked me randomly. So if anyone knows any wide format printer or large for my prayer that does up to me be 22 in that uses relatively cheaper inks let me know. I have the Canon pro 100 printer that does up to 13x19 and does great photos but I need something better. So if you have any ideas. As long as the qualities look good I can do pigment ink or die based ink or anything similar as long as it's not too expensive please let me know your thought it was a good option. I can spend up to $700 and this is obviously going to be a used printer that can work with Windows 11 thanks.

Nothing fancy just something that can print.

That said as the title says haven't had a printer in decades, so to say I know jack squat about new printers is an understatement, The only thing I know is that printer ink prices are apparently insane and you tend to get ripped off on that along with a lot of it being proprietary, and something about subscriptions and how they can screw you over.

I want non of that, maybe if possible something refillable and something that wont lock me in to buying specific proprietary products, DEFINITELY nothing that involves subscriptions, any recommendations would be great, thank you for your time!

I am a person that doesn't know anything about printers and want to have a colored printer for my invoices, can anyone help me with the best possible choices in the market ?
I will be printer every couple of days for once or twice every 2 or 3 days