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 1-33 Pickup-and-feed unit
Pickup-and-feed block
Duplex media path
Simplex media path
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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