> I have an HP 3180 Printer-copier-scanner. It's less than a year old and > the > scanner seems to have packed it in. All I get is a series of coloured > strips > like bad 60s wall paper. It doesn't matter if I try to scan colour or > black > and white I still get the coloured stripes. I have tried it with three > different scan packages - XSane, Kooka, and VueScan, under Kubuntu 7.10. > All > 3 show the same result so I'm assuming the scanner is toast. I was going > to > need new cartridges in the next few days and with the price of cartridges > that would almost cover the cost of a new device. Doesn't that seem a > little > crazy? >
I have seen this sort of problem before. It is related the bulb slowly dying, it is actually flickering - the Red/Green/Blue are measured in sequence from a mono-chrome sensor which is why it is giving strips. Your might gain some milage from replacing the bulb (or even just shaking it), but it's probably cheaper just to buy a replacement scanner. Don't forget to recycle the unit down Staple or the like.... Simon. _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
