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Question posted by hanri on December 14th, 2014

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Suddenly my canon printer does not want to work code 5100 please help me

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Answer #1: Posted by bernadette2013 on December 15th, 2014 3:58 AM

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Check if there is no grease on the sliders, there is no paper jam or nothing obstructing the loaders which generally causes the error 5100 to pop up. You just need to clean the encoder strip and make sure you clean the area where the printhead parks.

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