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Scanner Problem
It may just be time to retire it, but until now my HP5510v has worked reasonably well. However now, even though it will preview a document as well as always, it will not scan it. It takes forever for it to finish a pass, with the light carriage moving extremely slow, and stopping ~ every 1/4 to 1/2 inch. Each time it stops, the light goes out for a couple of seconds, then it resumes it's snail-like journey.
Windows says that all is well with it, except in the error message after a failed attempt, in which it just says to check the manufacturer's manual, which is no help, because the printer's software will not install on W7 from the disk or download...Windows installs the driver itself.
I did go through the setup options, and the only thing I found that I thought might help is that I set it to the original defaults. At first I thought that the light carriage must be binding on something, but on the return it moves just as fast and smooth as ever.
Is there anything that I can do, except toss it in the dumpster and buy another?
EDIT: Weird! When I use the document tray, which it insists on when choosing the document scan option, it works just fine.
Last edited by seekermeister; 15 Jun 2012 at 01:06.