Today at 4:57pm, Preston Crawford wrote: [...]
Acting weird as in sometimes the paper takes forever to load up. Sometimes it gets stuck. So it's definitely mechanical as nothing has changed, software-wise, as far as I know.
printer and you just think think the rollers are a little dirty, you should be able to clean it yourself. I have cleaned the rollers on my inkjet printers periodically with isopropyl alcohol and a cotton swab. I've never had any problems with that procedure, even though the HP manuals say not to clean anything but the cartridge and carrier.
Do you just take them out? Is it easy without breaking the printer?
No, just open the cover and remove as much of the paper tray and output tray as you can. I don't know the HP990cxi (I have a HP940c now), but if you can reach the feed rollers and the pinch rollers, you should be able to manually turn them as you rub them with an alcohol-dampened cotton swab. If there is an access to the paper path from the rear of the printer, open that as well to see what you can clean. JIm