How to Use a Bottom Loading Printer

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Part of the video series: How to Set Up & Troubleshoot Printers

Summary: Put paper in your printer! Learn how to load a bottom loading printer in this free video.

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By Zak Owen
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Zak Owen is a computer specialist from North Carolina. He is now in his 3rd year of a Computer Programing degree from the University of North Carolina in Greensboro.read more

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on 7/20/2008 Some of the 'bottom loaders', so to speak are built so inexpensively that they don't even have a tray that you can fit the paper into and slide the tray back into the printer. I had one by HP that, thought the print was excellent, I had to discard in the name of sanity. The paper was to be loaded into two 'sockets' on either side of the printer's lower half and then the machine would supposedly detect its presence and load it a sheet at a time. Inevitably the HP would detect many more than one needed sheet and one was constantly hopping up from the desk PC to the place there was room for the printer in order to correct the incessant error of chewing-in too many sheets of paper. Finally, and most unwillingly, I had to buy myself another printer - a Lexmark 3500-4500 series - which though inexpensive certainly ranks amongs one of the best continuously operating printers I've owned in f

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" Hi! This is Zak with Expert Village and I’m going to talk to you about loading paper into printers in nonstandard fashion. Most printers that you’ll buy load paper from the top, but some printers either load from the bottom or give you at least the option to load from the bottom such as this printer. It has a tray built underneath that can be pulled out and paper can be added to this. It’s adjustable to fit the different sizes of paper. Most standard printer paper is A4 size and/or letter. If you pay attention, there’s different marking that’ll tell you how wide you need to pull your tray for your paper to fit. Once you’ve loaded your paper into the tray you can slide it in. On this particular printer model, we can choose between loading through the bottom tray or the top tray, and there’s a feed switch here and indicator that tells us whether we’re loading paper from the top or bottom. Since I’ve inserted paper into the lower tray, I’m going to switch the feed switch to the bottom. Some printers also automatically detect which tray is carrying the paper so check your printers manual if you are curious about that."

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