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I got most of the mechanicals out of the way now and decided to put
it back together where I can to check to see if it will work still.
I got everything wired back up and power it up. It seems to do fine
for a while - you hear it doing it's usual cleaning - the main
feeder shaft seems to rotate the right direction etc.

However, when it finishes that up, The "Paper" LED blinks and both
inks show as being empty. I don't have this printer connected to a
computer at the moment so that could be partially the problem - not
sure either way.

There is one thing I have to remove and this too could be the
problem. The paper feeder has an opto sensor on it to detect the
position of a shaft (the one that holds the cams to feed the paper
in). This sensor is NOT the paper "leading edge" sensor. I have
tried to manual rotate that shaft so the sensor can "see" through
the hole and so that it is blocked - same errors either way.

Anyone have any suggestions - I am all ears .

Thanks

Chris