HP Photosmart C8180 Printer! WHY does this keep happening every day??

Question

I have only had this for 3 months and it already has problems.
It keeps telling me its out of paper when it is not.
i always have at least 20 sheets in there!
You can hear the rollers going but it can't pick up the paper and I only use high quality A4 paper in there.
i then have to pull the tray out and push it back in, and yes i have the paper inserted in there correctly
also, sometimes when i get this "out of paper" message, i ignore it and just press OK and it works fine 
why does this keep happening?
this is disgusting coming from a Quality brand like HP
think its time to go to BBC Watchdog! 
A printer is an item meant to print. 
It is generally helpful if a printer recognizes such out-of-the-ordinary, eccentric, unheard-of media such as...oh, I dunno, 8.5 x 11-inch PAPER?????
It claims repeatedly to have run out of paper. No paper. No paper. Insert paper into paper tray. Now, granted, the minimalist quality of the paper tray--it holds 20 pages, roughly--might convince you that I had indeed used up all my paper; this is not the case. 18 of the 20 sheets are still there. So I readjust that paper, close the tray. It starts to pull in a piece of paper, and then there is the giant crunchy noise of a paper jam in progress. And forget about “easy access” for removing them, either.
In the months I have had this printer, I don’t believe it has EVER allowed me to print five pages consecutively without some sort of problem.  To me, this is known as an EPIC FAIL. 
Message Edited by Waynester on 04-16-2009 04:09 PM

Answer 1

So how is the printer set up?  Is it wireless or USB?  If USB you will need a cable, purchased seperately.  It is a standard A/B USB cable widely available inexpensively.  (The $1 cables form the dollar store work fine....
Running the diagnostics at http://www.hp.com/go/tools may help resolve the issue.
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