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‎12-02-2011 08:08 PM

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Everytime I try to print cardstock, it doesn't recognize the paper and says that the tray is out of paper.

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‎10-01-2012 12:52 PM

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ok had the exact same prob as everyone else on this forum- just talked to an awesome lady at tech support "Melissa" at HP services and she solved the issue and low and behold it was super simple...to solve this issue with this model make sure that your printing perferences under the actual printer and the program you are using are set to "cardstock" - meaning...

 

click on start menu open your printer preferences by right clicking icon and selecting printer preferences -under paper/quality tab be sure to change your paper type to "cardstock" under media- also if you are printing with microsoft office/word/ serif or which ever program you are using make sure the media or paper type is also selected to the cardstock as well. Should work then- ours did:) 🙂 🙂 Good Luck to all!

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‎12-02-2011 08:04 PM

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How do I print cardstock on this printer?  It doesn't recognize the paper and keeps saying it is out of paper.

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‎01-09-2012 10:17 AM

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Does the printer have problems feeding plain paper or is it just the card stock? Which printer do you have?

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‎01-10-2012 05:22 PM

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I have the same problem as the original poster - it prints fine on regular paper,  but 99% of the time, even when I set it up as printing card stock, it tells me it's out of paper.

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‎01-11-2012 01:00 AM

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I also have the same problem with cardstock. Very disappointed.

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‎01-12-2012 02:26 PM

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When you are printing on the card stock, did you change the print setting/paper type to card stock? the printer pick mechanism adjusts the torque based on the paper type.

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‎01-12-2012 03:38 PM

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Yes, I set it to Card Stock. Have also tried setting it to Thick Paper. It prints maybe one card stock attempt per 30. It's infuriating, I use a lot of card stock and am going to need to return the printer if there is no solution.

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‎08-21-2012 08:01 AM

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I'm on my third 8600 Pro (two were a replacements and one was an upgrade to Plus)  None of them can print cardstock even though the specs state that they can. 

 

I tried using 110lb as I do with my other older HP printers and bought some 65lb to no avail

 

Lousy printers for cardstock

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‎08-21-2012 10:49 PM

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It's easy if you know how:   Always use tray 1   AND select "thick plain paper"  as your medium, NOT

 

"cardstock."  It works!!

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‎08-21-2012 11:39 PM

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Thanks for the idea but I'm on my third printer and none will print card stock.  The two were 8600 and the third is a Plus and all only have 1 input tray which is probably the hardware problem that I'm having.  The Premium seems to be what is needed

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