keeps saying paper jam but no paper anywhere inside or out.

Hidden deep within the manual is the 'bottom plate cleaning' procedure. This takes a piece of (new) paper with a crease, and sweeps out the paper path. It is meant to remove extra ink from the bottom plate, but may also remove paper blocking a sensor that would be detected as a jam.

See the manual, OR (copy and paste):

Cleaning the Inside of the Machine (Bottom Plate Cleaning)

Remove stains from the inside of the machine. If the inside of the machine becomes dirty, printed paper may get dirty, so we recommend performing cleaning regularly.

You need to prepare: a sheet of A4 or Letter-sized plain paper*

• Be sure to use a new piece of paper.

Make sure that the power is turned on and remove any paper from the rear tray.

Prepare paper.

Fold a single sheet of A4 or Letter-sized plain paper in half widthwise, then unfold the paper.

Load only this sheet of paper in the rear tray with the open side facing you.

Pull out the paper output tray and the output tray extension.

Hold down the Stop button until the Alarm lamp flashes eight times, then release it immediately.

The paper cleans the inside of the machine as it feeds through the machine.

Check the folded parts of the ejected paper. If they are smudged with ink, perform Bottom Plate Cleaning again.

Note

When performing Bottom Plate Cleaning again, be sure to use a new piece of paper.

I've just found on my Canon TS9155 (very similar setup to many of the modern Canon printers) that no paper jam existed, in spite of spending hours messing about with it cleaning and clearing the paper jam it stated that I had and finding nothing. I read on one of these help sites that my paper jam code was actually a workaround for Canon faults and could lead me even to an ink feed problem. So, I removed all of the six ink tanks, lightly brushed out the ink feed area, returned the tanks and switched on. There were lots of clicks and clacks (more than heard for a while) and then it fed a sheet of blank paper through and switched itself in its operational mode. Job done…but what a palaver..! Next time I'll do the same...FIRST..!

I have a Canon TS8020 Printer that showed the Error Code 1300 paper jam with no paper in it. After wiggling everything inside that I could reach, I remover the CD printing tray and the issue went away. It had nothing to do with paper.

Hope this helps.

Trex

I had a similar problem twice, both times my wife had put a hair tie on top of the printer and it got knocked into the paper tray and fed into the bottom of the printer. I found it the first time after I was about to throw the thing away and it fell out when I turned it upside down . The second time I looked for it took the top off to get the thing out, but after reconnecting and assembling the printer gives a printer error with power light and alarm light alternating with 5 flashes of power light after hitting the power button when you go to turn it off. Looks like it is headed to the trash after all.

We tried everything...then I noticed dirt on my glass, so there was also some dirt on bottom where you insert paper, we tipped printer over twice tried to shake all the dirt out and put the folded paper and did what the instructions said to do and guess what??? It started working and I had just told my husband time to use the hammer or get a new one...This are really dirt sensitive... Hope it works for you, it worked for us...

Just found an answer to this if anyone else is interested. Just try updating the printer driver on your computer. Then disable/enable it afterwards. Worked for me. I have a Cannon Pixma IP-2770 series.

Sometimes there is paper stuck at printer or printer saying the paper is jam and many more issues like that.

To fix all these issues with printer follow this guide and see if this works for you.

·         First, unplug the printer from power and wait for 1 min then restart the printer.

·         Please don’t pull the paper out from a jam in the opposite direction this will create more issues.

·         Just go check to make sure there is no loose paper stuck in the loading tray.

·         You can also take out the paper roller and clean paper roller using a cotton cloth.

·         Try moving the print head to the left and restart the printer and see if this work.

·         Restart the computer or the device that you are trying to print with and restart the printer and see if this works.

My Pixma iP100 developed this problem less than a year after I bought it. Although I tried a boatload of suggestions nothing worked. I finally found a simple solution. If I have one sheet of paper loaded I have a problem. If I have several sheets of paper loaded it prints fine. YMMV.

I read that it can help by cleaning the print roller with a screen cleaning product, rubber alcohol or similar

so i had this problem too and after trying multiple offered solutions managed to fix it like this

1) unplug and turn the printer off

2) open the front of the printer

3) gently move the print head to the right to expose some gears on the left side

4) manually turn these gears back and forth a few times (be careful not to damage the clear plastic disc next to the larger gear)

5) turn it back on and it should work

False paper Error. Take the disc tray out and printer will start working again ? .

I did Everything just what it told me to.But there was no jammed paper . I kept Getting the Error .Until I removed the Disc Trey.I hope this Helps you.

I have a canon MP280, i literally tried everyone's suggestions. Nothing worked, until i tried the suggestion that said "Turn it upside down and give it a good shake!! No $@$* it printed straight away!!

So grateful for these answers!

Ours had a tiny piece of dried glue that had somehow worked it's way inside - we spent forever trying to manually roll, shake the machine, resetting it etc etc and eventually tried the advice of Jim Lyons who posted back in Dec 2020;

"I had a "paper jam"... I turned out to be a tiny scrap of cellophane or such inside the roller/printer mechanism. I used a combination of the User Manual instructions along with the "roller turning" instructions. Turned off and unplugged as instructed.. I used a stiff piece of photograph print paper to force into the wheels and back out again, from left to right at the entry and exit of the feeds... Turned unit back on and it spit out the cellophane tape along with a sheet of paper. YAYYYYY!!!!!

Dec 20, 2020 by jim_lyons"

We used a thick piece of card which forced the obstruction out! Machine worked straight after as though there was never an issue.

Thanks Jim :)

My Pixma MG3650s was indicating a paper jam when there was none. I tried all the various on/off and shaking techniques to no avail. Then I stumbled on a "cardboard" suggestion. I opened the back of the printer and inserted the cardboard base of a notepad along the top paper tunnel until it appeared at the front of the machine. Then I retracted it. The error was eliminated and the machine was back in business.

I had the same problem, my Canon TS3300 was having this problem. The paper would come 1/3 of the way in then stop and the error would appear. It was solved by getting a thin cardboard the same size as the copy paper, and pushing it slowly through the top and then pulling it out slowly from the bottom once a small portion of it reached the other side. It didn't get rid of the error on the first try, but then it ended up working properly after a couple of more attempts. SOLUTION

Canon TS3300 printer jammed but no paper is stuck inside