Laserwriter 320 manual feed jam

While manually printing envelopes, the manual feed stopped working: the printer begins to draw the envelope in, but then suddenly stops, then the paper jam light goes on. Regular paper jams, too, not just envelopes. Auto feed from the paper tray still works. Tried using a new printing cartridge. No luck.

You can get a kit from fixyourownprinter.com to fix that exact Personal LaserWriter 320 issue: http://tinyurl.com/7vma64. I used their kits & almost managed to revive a near dead Personal LaserWriter NTR. Until the Fuser & replacement power supply I bought died on me. Finding the Rev 4.0 ROM Upgrade Kit was impossible too so I eventually was forced to get rid of it.

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Manual feed - Pers. LW 320

Can someone tell me how to use the manual feed on the Personal LaserWriter 320?
I want to print on some small size (10x7") card stock.
Thank you.

The paper output selector can be puzzling, and some of these printers have the actuating lever broken off. If you stare at the back (opposite of the paper cassette end) you will see two page-shaped Icons embossed into the right end of the Outside of the flip-down back panel. One has a page with no writing (indicating face-down delivery into the tray on top) the other has a page with writing (indicating face up delivery onto the table behind the printer).
The beige select lever, if still present, protrudes about an inch into space next to those Icons. The slot across most of the back panel has a slight notch at the right end where the lever should be. If the lever is present, the solution is obvious -- flip it to the position corresponding to the delivery Icon you prefer.
If the lever is broken off, more work is required. Flip down the door and you will see that a black plastic piece, attached to the flip-down door, extends the full length of the slot. This is the part that actually deflects the page into the top or out the back. It is very easy to re-position with slight finger pressure, and snaps into one of two positions. Lever Up = deflector down and in = face down delivery on top. Lever down = deflector up and out = face up delivery on the table behind.

Laserwriter 320 driver

Does anyone know where I can get the driver software for my Personal Laserwriter 320 to run on Mac OS 8.5.1? I have a StarMax 4200.
Thanks!

LW300 is a completely different stand-alone driver. It cannot be used for your printer.
LaserWriter 8 should be in the Extensions Folder, where the Chooser can find it.
LaserWriter 8 is built differently from all previous versions. It can service almost every LaserWriter ever made. All it needs to talk to your Personal LaserWriter 320 is a small configuration file. This will usually be found in a Folder inside the Extensions folder named "Printer Extensions". The configuration file for your printer is probably named "LaserWriter Personal 320". Do not move this file out of the Printer descriptions folder -- it only a customization file, not a complete Driver, and LaserWriter 8 will not find it if you move it from its expected location.
Once you select a LaserWriter 8 Extension in the left panel of the Chooser, your printer's name should appear in the right panel of the Chooser -- provided it is properly cabled and powered on and can be found by AppleTalk/LocalTalk. The name presented will be the name provided by your Printer, but without an Icon because laserWriter 8 does not yet know what kind of printer it is.
Select that name in the right pane of the Chooser, and you should get a ( Configure ) button. You will then have to configure it, either automatically or manually (or both) and it will get an Icon in front of its name and be fully useable.
Depending on what extensions you have installed, it may produce a Chooser-only Printer or a Desktop Printer. Either is perfectly serviceable, and this choice can be changed later should you change your mind.
Message was edited by: Grant Bennet-Alder

Printer Driver Problem? Page margins shift when using paper tray vs. manual feed

I am printing to an Apple LaserWriter 12/640 PS. The printed page and page margins are PERFECT (WYSIWYG; "What you see is what you get") when printing either to: (a) the MANUAL FEED TRAY of the Apple LaserWriter 12/640 PS; or (b) PDF to view on screen.
HOWEVER, when printing to the LaserWriter using the (ordinary/usual) paper cassette (you know, the thing that holds the 200+ sheeets of blank paper), two margin problems occur: (1) the uppermost portion of page content is shifted down 3/4" (maybe closer to 11/16") vs. its position on the manually fed paper. This, in turn, causes the botttom portion of the page content to run off below the printed page. (2) The "unprintable region" on the right edge of the paper expands from 1/8" with the manually fed paper to 7/16" when using the paper cassette. This shows up as an extra 5/16" (7/16" - 1/8" = 5/16") of white space/missing page content on the right edge.
The problem is consistent and reproduceable. It happens with cassette fed output from Safari, Word 2011, Acrobat X, TurboTax, Quicken Essentials for Mac, and TextEdit.
BIG problem when printing long documents whose content and margin settings I cannot control (e.g., third-party documents from Acrobat, anything from Quicken Essentials or TurboTax, pages from Safari, etc.). The only workaround is to feed everything manually (UGGH!).
I suspect the printer driver is faulty since the problem detailed above happens with so many applications. Is there a way to edit a plist (using the application/utility "Pref Setter" or similar) to overide the driver's margin settings?
I believe the print driver is "Apple LaserWriter 12/640 PS v2015.105" (from Sytem Prefences->Print&Scan->Options and Supplies->Driver).
Any help greatly appreceated.

Thanks! It works perfectly! I even saved my original "oversize" document by printing it to PDF with the scaling so the problem is permanently cured, at least for this document.

Laserwriter, no manual printing

My presets were remembered from Tiger to Leopard but now when I want to print by manual feed on my Laserwriter 630 using the previous manual preset carried over from Tiger, the printer just prints automatically from the installed paper tray.
If I ever encountered a printing problem I would always use the trusted Desktop Printer Utility program, but now that OS 9 is not supported I don't know what to do.
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.
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Thanks for your reply Grant but perhaps I am not making myself clear. We have 2 select 360's. When I put a piece of paper in my printer's manual slot and select manual print in the print dialog window, the printer prints. When I do the same thing in my wife's select 360, a message appears saying "the printer is waiting for a piece of paper to be inserted" It has nothing to do with the size of paper, we only use letter size.
I remember being able to turn this message off because my printer used to do the same thing. Some thing like " When manual printing no special warning." I have forgotton how to do this and I don't see any place in the LaserWriter utility that addresses this.Maybe I need a copy of an older LW utility
Thanks for any help

Color LaserJet 1600 +door of magenta toner opens and catches manual feed items

I am baffled. I have used this printer successfully for a couple of years and all of a sudden, after loading something to manually feed, it gets stuck thus causing a paper jam. When I open the door to correct the jam, I notice that the magenta toner door is getting stuch under the envelope that is being fed. The toner doors should all open and shut at the same time, but the magenta toner door opens widely before the printer door is shut and before the other toner doors open. What is wrong? Most appreciate any help.
In addition, I cannot get a copy of the HP toolbox for my device. Does anyone know why that is?

You can check to see if the magenta toner door is broken. That may be the problem. See what it looks like, compared to the other cartridges.
Here is a link to the software available for the CLJ1600:
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/SoftwareIndex.jsp?lang=en&cc=us&prodNameId=1140729&...
Although I am an HP employee, I am speaking for myself and not for HP.

P1505 "Status: Manual Feed Required."

I installed a P1505 on a Vista laptop via USB last week, and it worked fine. Today, the user called me and said that after she'd turned her printer on (which she claimed she hadn't turned off?) this morning, she printed one document, and it began saying "Manual Feed Required" and refuses to print anything else. I am at a loss, there don't seem to be any troubleshooting docs which refer to this error, googling brings up references to using the printer on a print server which is no help to me, and reinstalling the printer software drivers etc seems to have not done anything.
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M375nw manual feed

My M375nw printer got jolted while moving it. Not hard, but enough to shake it. The only problem is it won't manually feed from tray 1. It reports a jam in tray 2, clear and press OK. There is no jam, and the message keeps repeating. If I take paper out of tray 1, it immediately prints from tray 2. I'm guessing something got shaken loose or out of alignment. I've tried reseating the green guide a few times. Anyone have any ideas? Only listed HP repair anywhere near me won't work with me, they only work under contract with large companies.

The paper output selector can be puzzling, and some of these printers have the actuating lever broken off. If you stare at the back (opposite of the paper cassette end) you will see two page-shaped Icons embossed into the right end of the Outside of the flip-down back panel. One has a page with no writing (indicating face-down delivery into the tray on top) the other has a page with writing (indicating face up delivery onto the table behind the printer).
The beige select lever, if still present, protrudes about an inch into space next to those Icons. The slot across most of the back panel has a slight notch at the right end where the lever should be. If the lever is present, the solution is obvious -- flip it to the position corresponding to the delivery Icon you prefer.
If the lever is broken off, more work is required. Flip down the door and you will see that a black plastic piece, attached to the flip-down door, extends the full length of the slot. This is the part that actually deflects the page into the top or out the back. It is very easy to re-position with slight finger pressure, and snaps into one of two positions. Lever Up = deflector down and in = face down delivery on top. Lever down = deflector up and out = face up delivery on the table behind.

How to connect my perfectly-working 20-year-old Apple Personal Laserwriter 320 to my iMac running Mountain Lion?

How to connect my perfectly-working 20-year-old Apple Personal Laserwriter 320 to my iMac running Mountain Lion?
Thank you, Morty S.

I have a perfectly-working LW 4/600 with exactly the same issue. They use localtalk - a long obsolete network connection, that doesn't connect to modern networks, and appletalk as the comm protocol.
I think the only choice you have is to use an old powerPC Mac as print server. You tell me which old Mac you have, with a localtalk connector, or that runs OS X 10.4 or earlier (so it speaks appletalk), and I'll tell you how I've done it for the past 11 years or so.
Right now I use a G4 running 10.4.11, plus an etherMac ethernet to localtalk adapter.
Before, I used a PMac 6100 running LPD server software.

Print a document with mixed Legal/Letter paper with 1 tray and manual feed

I have an HP Laserjet Pro MFP M521 with one paper tray. I need to print a document that has a mix of legal and letter size pages. Is there a way to set it up using the one tray and the manual feed so that it will print correctly?

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How to turn off Manual Feed envelope prompt on printer scrn LaserJet Pro 200 Color MFP M276?

Somehow, in trying to figure out how to get an envelope to print from the feeder tray (which I found out isn't possible), I turned on something that produces a printer screen prompt that says something like 'Manual Feed" then says the size of envelope and waits for response. This is every time I print an envelope & it's really a pain and I'm not finding where/how to turn this off. Can anyone help? Thanks in advance.

Hello miebs, and welcome to the HP Forums, I hope you enjoy your experience!
I see you are having envelope issues. I would love to try and help you, but I do need a little information first. I am linking a few HP Support documents below that will show you how to find which operating system you are using. Also, if you're using Windows, please include whether your operating system is 32-bit or 64-bit. With this information we can provide you with accurate information.
Mac OS X: How Do I Find Which Mac OS X Version Is on My Computer?
Which Windows operating system am I running?
Is the Windows Version on My Computer 32-bit or 64-bit?
Also, What programs are you printing from? Does it occur from multiple programs?
Please let me know what you find. Thanks for posting on the HP Forums!
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HP LaserJet 4200 -- manual feed tray not working after 10.6 install

Hi all...
One of my users pointed this out to me. I'm looking for confirmation (or a solution)?
We have an HP LaserJet 4200 printer added to our mac clients as an IP printer. Under 10.5.8, printing to "Tray 1 (Manual)" goes where you think it would -- to the manual feed tray.
Upgrading to 10.6.1? Manual print jobs are going to the internal "Tray 3".
It's the same behavior if I use the 10.6.1 "5.3.0" printer driver or the HP Printer Update 2.1 updated "5.4.0" version.
Can anybody else confirm/deny the problem with their 4200 printer under 10.6? If you can confirm it, do you know of a fix (short of rolling back to 10.5.8).
A remove and readd of the printer did not help here. Unfortunately.
Thanks!
- Steve

Resolved this two ways:
1) the "gutenprint" driver worked.
2) The larger problem was the manual tray had been set to "A4" size.
I used the web admin interface to set this to "any size" and "any" type and that fixed the problem with the 5.4.0 "LaserJet 4200 Series" default printer driver...
Luckily, somebody else on campus had one of these printers and we were able to compare the printer setting differences to figure this out.
I hope this helps somebody!
- Steve

LaserJet 4700dn Always prints from Tray 1 (Manual Feed)

I have a networked LaserJet 4700dn in a lab environment that recently has starting trying to print all jobs on the manual feed Tray 1. I cannot find a way to reset this to use Tray 2 as the default tray. I have checked all the OSD settings and used the web interface to attempt to rectify this. I have installed the latest firmware and driver package on my test computer with no luck. I have read threads here for different printer models with the same issue but the solutions given are not available for the 4700 printer.
TIA

The problem for me was that the paper tray setting slipped back from LTR to A4. Take out the paper tray and make sure the arrow is aligned with LTR.

I can't get my G3 iBook (OS X 10.4.3) to drive a Personal LaserWriter 320.

I have just resurrected my trusty Apple Personal LaserWriter 320 and the Asante Talk adapter that worked flawlessly on my iMac 9.2. Using the Ethernet port on my G3 iBook with Tiger I get the error message -50 when I try to add this printer to my list.
iBook G3 Mac OS X (10.4.3) LaserWriter 320
iBook G3 Mac OS X (10.4.3) LaserWriter 320, iMac 9.2, iMac G5

Do you have ethernet set up on the G3? It must have an IP address before appletalk will work. This is different from the way ethernet/appletalk worked on OS 9.

Personal LaserWriter 320

I have an old Personal LaserWriter 320 which worked perfectly when connected by Ethernet to my Power Mac G4. I have now connected it by Ethernet to my new iMac. My problem is that the printer now 'prints' a blank page between every genuine page. No tweaking of paper specs, margins, or defaults has worked. I can stop it by printing one copy of page 2 to page 2 (out of a 3 page document say) but if I ask for 2 copies of page 2 to page 2 the blank comes out between them -- just as when I ask for page1 to page 2.

I am using the EtherMac iPrint Adaptor which was supplied a few years ago with my G4 to enable me to use the printer (which I already owned).
I am using the built in Mac OS X Driver.
The printer uses A4 paper.
Page Setup allows me to choose between US Letter, A4, A4 Small, and others. I choose one or other of the A4 options every time. This seems to stay put in TextEdit, but not in Word, not in System Preferences.
Printing starts further up the page than the top margin says it should. It would appear that the computer always assumes that the printer uses US Letter paper.

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