I traced it down to some circuit failure which means the end of the line. I then made a mistake of freecycling it and the cartridges and instantly was besieged on how to fix the printer. I had asked that only a 62 owner take it for the spare parts and the remaining spare carts. A sad ending in my book. But I'm wiser now about freecycling.
Bob
Let me say thanks in advance to all that take their time to answer my question.
The problem symptoms are as follows.
When I request my Epson Stylus CX5400 color printer to print, it sounds just like it is actually printing but a blank sheet comes out.
I am running Windows XP pro version 2002 W/SP2 with a 3.2GHz Pentium 4 with hyperthreading. 3.19 GHz 512 MB RAM
This is how it appears in My Comp properties.
I have an Epson Stylus CX5400 and the ink cartridges are not empty. As a matter of fact, it will not do ANYTHING if one is out of ink. I do not have any error messages on the computer or the printer.
I had this problem 6 months ago and stopped using this printer, never got it to work again. I just reformatted my PC and reinstalled this EPson to no avail. I tried to run the alignment test and it sounded like it was printing but shot a blank out. I wanted to get your assistance before I begin the usually long, long ,long game of e-mail tag with Epson. Again thanks for your help.
Jim

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