An office or home printer that "jams", but there is no real printer jam. A phantom jam can be extremely frustrating in re-occurrences, resulting in the urge to drop-kick the printer out the window. The movie Office Space depicts a phantom jam, where the printer in question is later destroyed.
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The common driver is often left not only frustrated, but also confused, after coming out of a phantom jam.
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