[Age of Reason]

I have an HP Laserjet 3100 that I bought in '98 . . . . Lately I noticed that it likes to suck in several blank pages at a time

Me three--see my post immediately below yours.

I begged a friend of mine not to buy an HP with this type of paper feed. Did he listen? No.

Now he's got the same annoying problem.

[Goldi-Lox]

In my office those top loading HP 5s are the ones everyone trades for anything else that becomes available. If someone leaves, that night their computer's printer disappears to be replaced with one of "those". The paper feed problem is in all of them. It's a basic design problem. (They really should have recalled them ALL.)

I have an HP Laserjet 4L. I love it. I use one cartridge every year or two. I've had it for a LONG time. 600 dpi. Holds about 200 sheets. Does enevelopes one at a time, or if the papertray drawer is modified. I only do one or two at a time anyway, so it's fine for me. (I have a Seiko lable maker for more envelopes than 2). My Canon is used for the occasional color prints I make, which need to be high quality, and long lasting. Even the occasional black text print on the Canon is great.

[Thinkin' Gal]

Haha, I should count my blessings, since mine hasn't done anything too bad. I just figured that it was my fault because of dust or wood ash. I had no idea it was a design flaw.

Too funny... I thought you had been looking over my shoulder when I read this:

Now I just live with the problem by reaching over and placing my finger lightly against the paper in the hoppper to insure only one page at a time enters the printer.

:-)

If this thing got heavy use I'd probably be quite perturbed, but overall it's done a great job for us.

[Great Dane]

I begged a friend of mine not to buy an HP with this type of paper feed. Did he listen? No.

Are we talking front loaders, I have an HP front loader, it's 3 years old.......... never had any problems.