Pickup-and-feed unit

The pickup-and-feed unit picks an individual sheet of paper from the multipurpose tray or the cassettes, carries it through the secondary-transfer unit, and feeds it into the fuser.

Figure 1-33Pickup-and-feed unit

Simplex media path

Duplex media path

Pickup-and-feed block

Cassette pickup

The sequence of steps for the cassette-tray pickup operation is the following:

1.The product is turned on or the cassette is inserted.

2.The cassette lift-up operation raises the lifting plate so paper can be picked up.

3.The pickup motor rotates when a print command is received from the formatter.

4.The cassette pickup roller, cassette feed roller, and cassette separation roller rotate.

5.The cassette pickup solenoid turns on at a specified time.

6.The cassette pickup cam rotates.

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HP Enterprise CC490A manual Pickup-and-feed unit, Cassette pickup