Printer not printing glossy paper

[Einhander]

Just had some glossy paper come in. Unfortunately it says that no paper is fed. I am using an inkjet printer. It prints the non gloss side only. Why is that?

[monjici]

I'm gonna take a wild guess, it may be related to paper thickness. Do you have such setting in your printer?

[TDIRunner]

Yeah, make sure you have your printer set to glossy paper.  I accidentally ran some glossy paper through once without changing the setting and the ink NEVER dried.  When I say never, I mean even a week later I could still wipe the ink off the paper with a rag. 

Also, sometimes if I'm only printing one cover, I'll stick one sheet of my good quality paper into the paper tray on top of my regular copy paper.  I do this so that after printing my cover, I don't have to put the copy paper back in.  The problem with this is that I've found that the glossy paper tends to stick to the copy paper beneath it.  When this happens, you get the following problem:





So it's probably best to just use the paper you want to print on.

Also, I hate to have to ask, but if your glossy paper is only one sided, are you sure you are placing the paper the correct side up?

[Einhander]

Yea I set it to glossy print and it still said no paper found

[TDIRunner]

My printer has multiple trays to select paper from.  Some printers have a secondary tray that folds out for one or two sheets at a time.  Sometimes the printer defalts to that tray when you select a different type of paper.  Check to see if that's the problem and make sure you've selected the tray that the glossy paper is in. 

[Einhander]

My printer has multiple trays to select paper from.  Some printers have a secondary tray that folds out for one or two sheets at a time.  Sometimes the printer defalts to that tray when you select a different type of paper.  Check to see if that's the problem and make sure you've selected the tray that the glossy paper is in. 

Thanks. Yea I tried doing that, inserting it in that tray and selected glossy, it still says that there's no paper

[monjici]

My printer has multiple trays to select paper from.  Some printers have a secondary tray that folds out for one or two sheets at a time.  Sometimes the printer defalts to that tray when you select a different type of paper.  Check to see if that's the problem and make sure you've selected the tray that the glossy paper is in. 

Thanks. Yea I tried doing that, inserting it in that tray and selected glossy, it still says that there's no paper

What kind of freakin' sensor does it have? If it's somekind of laser that gets reflected by glossy paper, the engineers should be shot
Can you still return it to the store? If everything else fails, could you locate the sensor and block/disable it?

[TDIRunner]

Sorry, I'm running out of ideas other than looking for a 1-800 support number and trying that or trying Google.