misfeeds

Paper intake failures

Misfeeds is the plural of misfeed—an instance when paper or other material fails to advance properly through a machine.

Printers, copiers, and document scanners misfeed when sheets jam, skip, or feed crookedly: The old copier had constant misfeeds.

As a verb, misfeeds means fails to feed correctly: The printer misfeeds whenever I use thick cardstock.

jam

paper

Pressed pulp for writing

copier · mechanism · clog · obstruction · crumple · wrinkle · fold · skew · sheet · tray

malfunction

mechanical failure

Equipment stops working properly

service manual · error code · diagnostic · calibration · maintenance · troubleshooting · reset · firmware · driver · queue

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misfeed

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