If you're lucky it may only need to be cleaned, oiled, and maybe replace the rollers, however, I wouldn't spend that kind of money on a IIIp.  For a hundred bucks you can get a brand new inkjet that will outperform a laserjet as old as that, and you can keep the 820 as a backup. Even if all it needed was a cleaning, the only way you'd make out on that is to do it yourself, since the hourly rate for people who do that would cost more than getting a new printer.  You'd do good taking a tax deduction by donating the IIIp to a charity.

>I haven't been using this printer for ~2 months because of some problems, so
>before I chuck it I thought Id' bounce them off the list.
>
>Problem 1:  It won't feed paper into the machine.   I can see numbed wheels
>that protrude from the front turning and I can turn the feed wheels by hand.
>The platform at the bottom of the tray moves up to place the paper in
>position but the rubber wheels don't seem to push the paper into the
>machine.
>
>Problem 2.  Intermittently (before the feed problem developed) I could hear
>a soft high pitched sound and when the printed page would come out with
>board black lines across it.  When the sound wasn't present it printed fine.
>
>Any ideas?   I'm also having problems with my HP 820C so I'm considering
>upgrading to higher resolution printers, but I'd like to keep the IIIp as a
>backup if possible.
>
>
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