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Hello - Our Laserjet M281 is a was purchased in 2019 and the warranty is expired in October 2020.  We are still hopeful that we can fix what seems what might be a staight forward problem.  The printer keeps misprinting and then does a self "clean."  This wastes a lot of paper and time!  How can we clean the printer so it no longer misprints?  (FYI, We use original HP ink.)  Or is there something else that is causing this problem?  Overall this has been a great printer but it would be unfortunate that we have to dump it into a landfill if there is something we can do to fix it!  Thank you.

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