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 &nbsp;Thank you, Brian. Your answer was sraight and to the point. I did indeed have my encoder strip oriented correctly but the ribbon cable had pulled just loose enough to break the connection. The retaining clip has a broken lock and placing the rear cover caused it to pull loose (and of course you can't see this with the cover on). Prints like a dream now. Love those HP's. They are practically indestrutible. Thanks again for your good advice and in such a short time since I had posted my question!!
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 Thank you, Brian. Your answer was sraight and to the point. I did indeed have my encoder strip oriented correctly but the ribbon cable had pulled just loose enough to break the connection. The retaining clip has a broken lock and placing the rear cover caused it to pull loose (and of course you can't see this with the cover on). Prints like a dream now. Love those HP's. They are practically indestrutible. Thanks again for your good advice and in such a short time since I had posted my question!!

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you are welcome I am glad that you were able to get it fixed on some printers you cannot fix those ribbon cables because the solder them to the boards so it is a good thing it was not in your case.. :) have a good day 
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you are welcome I am glad that you were able to get it fixed on some printers you cannot fix those ribbon cables because the solder them to the boards so it is a good thing it was not in your case.. :) have a good day

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I recently took our office printer apart for cleaning and lube. Everything was fine as far as the parts went(no broken or missing pieces). Here is the problem...the printer will not initialize. All I get is the self test and then flashing amber lights on the display(manual feed,check paper and check cartridges). I have no manual but it has been assembled properly and it has new cartridges. Help!!!! 
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I recently took our office printer apart for cleaning and lube. Everything was fine as far as the parts went(no broken or missing pieces). Here is the problem...the printer will not initialize. All I get is the self test and then flashing amber lights on the display(manual feed,check paper and check cartridges). I have no manual but it has been assembled properly and it has new cartridges. Help!!!! 

HP Deskjet 1200C

A printer is a peripheral which makes a persistent human readable representation of graphics or text on paper or similar physical media. Traditional printers are being used more for special purposes, like printing photographs or artwork, and are no longer a must-have peripheral; 3D printing has become an area of intense interest, allowing the creation of physical objects. An image scanner is a device that optically scans images, printed text, handwriting, or an object, and converts it to a digital image. Hand-held scanners, where the device is moved by hand, have evolved from text scanning "wands" to 3D scanners used for industrial design, reverse engineering, test and measurement, orthotics, gaming and other applications.