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5100 means either there is paper stopping the carriage from moving properly, or there is grease on the plastic strip behind the carriage. If you wipe off the grease with a Q-tip the error will go away.
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Error Code 5100
You need to get ant bits paper from it first, no easy way just go to get in to it and get it out try turning the rollers by hand. Solution 1: Clean the timing strip.
Solution 2: The purge cap (the white sliding mechanism that the print head parks to when it's not in use) may be not lubricated well enough .
Lubricate the sliders with some white grease (don't get it on the small wipers or the black caps); this repair probably require to remove the right panel off of the printer to gain access to the purge mechanism. All The Best: Pineworks
There is a thin (1/4"wide) plastic strip running across the width in
front of and below the drive belt. This is part of the optical encoder
that tells the print-head where it is. If you look closely, there are
fine black vertical lines on this strip. If the strip gets a piece of
crud on it, you get an error during the start-up sequence. Gently clean
this strip with a damp lint-free tissue. This also fixed a gap in the
printing running lengthwise (not across the page like a clogged head).
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