EPIC FAIL

[truepenny]

So, on page 619 of 827, my trusty and well-belovèd Samsung has thrown a paper jam.

It took me five minutes to FIND the jammed piece of paper, which has accordioned itself in the guts of the printer so that it is (a.) nearly invisible and (b.) even more unreachable. Seriously. It's folded up like a goddamn fan, and the available aperture is not wide enough to admit fingers.

I can reach it with tweezers . . . but they're tearing the paper rather than, you know, extracting it.

This? Is not the plan. You can tell it's not the plan because Samsung's owner's manual does not even IMAGINE the possibility of being able to FUBAR things this badly.

I feel . . . special.

ETA 3:00 PM: Going to Odd Con. Some progress made but printer still jammed up like a dog with a mouthful of peanut butter. Hard copy will get to New York significantly later than planned. C'est la fucking vie.

Comments

[batwrangler.livejournal.com]

Can you attach cardboard "paddles" to the ends of the tweezers to distribute the force along a wider area of the jammed paper?

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

I think that depends on the value of "you" one substitutes in. As in, you might be able to. Me? Not so much.

[britmandelo.livejournal.com]

At least it's your home printer. I managed to do something very similar to that in the university library, and as I couldn't just leave it and then have two hundred more manuscript pages come pouring out whenever the assistants realized it had stopped printing, I had to fess up and wait for the techies to fix it while I stood by turning a furious color of red. They were not happy with me.

[zelsius.livejournal.com]

Send it to me and I'll print it for you!
No? Well, it was worth a try...

(827 pages! Yay!)

[batwrangler.livejournal.com]

zelsius beat me to it!

[kate_nepveu]

I can't believe I hadn't thought of that myself . . .

[elaine-brennan.livejournal.com]

Which model Samsung?

[matociquala.livejournal.com]

*sends booze*

the mate to your icon

[liminalia.livejournal.com]

[poshlil.livejournal.com]

Having had the same problem with the printer at work: if you tear at it enough with tweezers, it will extract eventually. Also very pointy chopsticks work well too. Or a long darning needle to flick it forwards so you can continue with the tearing.

Good luck. I hate printers.

[heresluck]

You know, I OWE you printout and sendoff of 200 pages of book.

I'm just saying.

[technomom]

How about salad tongs? Any other pinchy things in the house?

Special

[allaboutm-e.livejournal.com]

Best of luck extracting!