Help - Can you identify this spring from underneath the printer head of an Epson P5000?

[Platypus52]

I'm looking to the forum for help with an Epson P5000 printer that I am trying to recover. Bought as a cheap "project", it sat idle for 2+ years and had multiple clogged nozzles. Multiple cleanings cleared up all the nozzles except for yellow. When I removed the printhead to directly flush it, I discovered that there were two springs underneath the print head. It was easy to figure out where the first spring went, as it helps maintain the horizontal position of the printhead. The second spring has been puzzled. It is a light spring, 25 mm x 10mm, with no obvious function. See photo below. The Epson P5000 service manual has been no help and it doesn't show up on the exploded parts view in the service manual.

Any suggestions as to where it goes and what its function is? I'm otherwise ready to put the printer back together but assume that no good will come of reassembling it without this spring.

Thanks in advance.

Platypus52

 

[The Hat]

Thanks in advance.

It doesn’t help here to post the same thing twice..

 

[Platypus52]

My apologies. I didn't intend to post twice but thought my first post hadn't gone through. (I'm new to this forum.)

- Platypus

 

[The Hat]

My apologies. I didn't intend to post twice

We’re easy confused here..

 

[garya]

I don't know anything about a P5000, but it looks like the spring on a 3880 used as part of the auto sheet feed mechanism. It might also be the compression spring for the spur gear in the timing belt apparatus. Those are the only compression springs I see in the 3880 service manual.