Once Upon a Scanner

I sort of solved the HP 9200 Digital Sender’s jamming problem.  It’s an utterly insane design that can’t bear even a single pea under a stack of mattresses or it falls apart.

In the feed mechanism adjacent to the glass is a thing that flips open so you can loosely attach a small sheet of clear mylar to some nubs.  The mylar apparently provides the anti-jamming lubricant.  They even supply spares, as they must be replaced periodically when they start to cause streaking.

What happened is the first scan I did knocked the mylar out of place and left it in the back of the return tray, the design of which is a whole other gripe.  When I found out about this via the RTFM method, I found no mylar there so grabbed one of the spares and mounted it, wondering WTF they were thinking when I saw how it went on.

Thus another sheet fed properly, after which the mylar was gone.  That’s when I found the original, along with the new one, at the back of the return tray.

So I tried again.  This time the mylar piece is somewhere in the feed mechanism where I can’t even see it, just gone.  Oh joy.

I am hoping I’m missing something and they can snap into place in a way that makes them stay, or something.  Otherwise the scanner will be usable only a single sheet at a time placed directly onto the glass (which at least I found could be done, contrary to my impression when last I worked on it).

All you have to do to realize how finicky the device is is to read the manual on how to clear and prevent jams, and how to clean it in support of same.  It sounds outrageously fussy.

Update:

Success!

The key is to ignore the imperfect pictorial directions provided by HP, and to take the scanner apart more completely than initially appears readily possible or wise, then mount the mylar sheet in the way that looks correct, rather than the way shown in the directions.

1. Been a few months since I’ve visited, glad to see HP is still doing a “bang up” job.  PC Load Letter will go down in infamy…

   Posted by Scof  on  02/09  at  04:48 PM  from  Arlington, TX
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