what kind of printer is it ?   New or Old ?   did you do something special before it stopped grabbing the paper ?

It's a Lexmark X4650. It has more than 2 years (out of warranty now...). I didn't do anything... It just stayed without use for a while...

Can you help? :)

Printers are the scum of the earth, they tend to break down more often than work (I had the need to print out some pages on my home printer a few weeks ago and it only printed half of each page, each full color thus quite a bit of ink lost in the 50 pages that I printed while I quickly hopped under the shower, but after a bit of tinkering it worked again... grmbl, still not useful when one is already running late, but it worked in the end ;) ).

Nowadays especially for home usage people tend to just buy new ones when they break down as a new printer is cheaper than buying new cartridges (and the reason why eg HP fills 'new' cartridges that come with the printer only upto 60% or so so that they run out quicker and you might actually buy new ones before getting a new printer)

But before you do that extreme measure, do a couple of test-page prints or other 'empty' page prints with the thickest paper you have but that should fit through it, that way, you should 'suck' any remaining stuff in the printer along that is in there.

Your only other option, lest replacing it, is to pass it by someone who knows a bit about printers and has seen the insides of quite a few of them, if you are truly desperate, send a message and maybe we can meet halfway or so between Zurich and Geneva to get that resolved (I've unfortunately had to intern a long time ago at a hospital with a large amount of these broken *explicitive removed* till they figured out that I was much better at other things and they banned me from helping people fix their personal computing issues)

:) Thanks Jeroen, will give a second shot tomorrow. If it doesn't cooperate... I'll just buy a new one. 

lexmark seems to have a problem with grabing the paper.

Another common paper feed problem related to Lexmark printers is that once you send a document to the printer, the paper will not feed into the printer at all. Check to make sure the paper is completely down in the printer's top paper tray. Also, check your paper guides---they should be pushed against the paper but not jammed into the paper. If the paper still won't feed, check to see if any paper is jammed inside the printer and/or replace the tires on the "pickup assembly" inside the printer.