Yellow strip on a scanjet 5100c

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Hello all,

I am having the same problem this fellow had with an HP 5100c Scanjet:

Dear all,
I've got a 5100C scanjet which has not been given a lot of use
latelly. Everytime i've try to scan something a top-to-bottom yellow
strip appears (over the place where the "rubber chain" handles). The
glass is clean and i cannot imagine what might be the cause... do you
think the sensor?/bulb-head? might be dirty and this can be easily
solved with a simple clean inside?
Can any one help me out?
Kind regards,
Filipe

This was on an HP business discussion board, but it is a cached page I
found with Google. There was no reply. Has anyone had this problem
and found a solution? It's really driving me nuts having to clean up
scans with Photoshop because of it.

Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

TIA,

James

Archived from groups: alt.comp.periphs.scanner (More info?)

On Wed, 21 Apr 2004 13:26:26 -0400, Mac McDougald
<doogleREMOVE_THIS@netzero.net> wrote:

>In article <6s8c80tor5pbio277k6e4vdpose51nt33e@4ax.com>,
>asljames@hotmail.com says...
>> Hello all,
>>
>> I am having the same problem this fellow had with an HP 5100c Scanjet:
>>
>> Dear all,
>> I've got a 5100C scanjet which has not been given a lot of use
>> latelly. Everytime i've try to scan something a top-to-bottom yellow
>> strip appears (over the place where the "rubber chain" handles). The
>> glass is clean and i cannot imagine what might be the cause... do you
>> think the sensor?/bulb-head? might be dirty and this can be easily
>> solved with a simple clean inside?
>> Can any one help me out?
>> Kind regards,
>> Filipe
>>
>> This was on an HP business discussion board, but it is a cached page I
>> found with Google. There was no reply. Has anyone had this problem
>> and found a solution? It's really driving me nuts having to clean up
>> scans with Photoshop because of it.
>>
>> Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
>>
>> TIA,
>>
>> James
>
> Almost certainly this:
>http://www.willshak.com/scanner/index.html
>
>Mac

Looks good. I'll definately give it a shot and let y'all know.
Thanks!!