My Alps MD-1000 is not feeding paper. The tray will move forward and i can see the wheels roll but the paper is not being fed into the printer. I tried doing a self print test (disconnected from a cpu) and it tries to feed a few times then the error light and power light blink simultaneously.

If nothing happens no carrier movementor paper feed you probably have a bad keyboard.
If the carrier moves but no feed the index motot may need to be lubed.
If the roll moves but the paper dosen't you may have debris on the paper tray or bad lower fed rolls.

DickyO

Try cleaning the cartridge carrier sensor. This tells the carrier where to stop to pick up the differnt cartridges They can get dusty with time which can cause a failure.

Printer feed error means, printer is unable to take paper from paper tray..http://www.freepatentsonline.com/5853256.html

It sounds like the print head is failing.

Remove the 4 screws holding the main feed tray. Then GENTLY pry the tabs on both edges of the printer. They are really tight! The fit is great but once you break the "seal" so to say the whole cover just pops off.

Have you ininstall the device and reinstall it? Do you have any pending print job?

Hello! can you help me please? My ALPS 5000 printer has been setting for about 3 yrs, I just install it in another computer but the paper will not feed in the printer, It's almost like something in there, but it's not.


Thank's

Please ignore courtdate & creamgetmonE. Here's why:
creamgetmonE - If you're using the XP driver, you are using something so crippled, it should have been aborted. USE THE ALPS DRIVER!!!!!!!!
courtdate, oiling the carriage rail will not change a thing, apart from gunking up the printer, and ENSURING it will fail sometime in the future.
TO FIX YOUR PROBLEM:
There is a sensor under the anti-curl veil. Clean it.

You can buy OKI MD 5000 Cartridges or Citizen Printiva Cartridges. Are the same.
There are also resellers that sells only ribbons to exchange in cartridges. http://www.refillx.com/

This is a symptom of the following:

You are running XP, and have installed SP3 and, you are using the microsoft driver bundled with XP.

The solution:

The m$ driver will have created a printer with "(MS)" as a suffix. Leave this intact, as it will cause major trouble on every reboot if you delete it.
Download the appropriate driver from the Files section in the Alps YahooGroup found at http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Alps/
With your printer unplugged, install the downloaded driver
Shut down your computer and hook up the printer
Reboot
XP will detect the printer, and create a new printer in Control Panel without the "(MS)" suffix
Make the new printer your default printer.

The reason why you do not delete the printer with the "(MS)" suffix, is because every time you reboot, XP will ignore the fact that you have the correct Alps driver loaded, and will create a new printer using the m$ drivers, and set it to default. Of course, the m$ Alps driver is fundamentally broken