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Medium · 8 minMaintenance & care

Clean the paper feed rollers

Dusty rollers slip, so pages misfeed or come through smudged. A built-in routine cleans them.

01 · Identify — does this match what you see?

  • Repeated no-paper errors with paper loaded
  • Grey smears along the page edge
  • Loud grinding at feed time

02 · Resolve — follow in order

  1. 1

    Remove all paper from the tray you want to clean.

  2. 2

    Open Maintenance and choose Roller Cleaning, then pick the rear tray or cassette.

  3. 3

    Let it run with no paper — the rollers spin dry to shed dust.

  4. 4

    When prompted, load three sheets of plain paper and run the routine again; the sheets pick up remaining grime.

  5. 5

    Repeat once if the sheets came out visibly dirty.

Pro tip

Do this every few reams, or any time you move the printer somewhere dustier.

03 · Applies to

PIXMA TS3520PIXMA TR4720MAXIFY MB2720

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