Originally Posted by
Iowatech
A couple of off the wall suggestions: you might want to check the rails the scanner carriages that carry the mirrors slide on, if there's a buildup of crud on them wipe it off with a dry cloth. It might also be the the mechanism that drives the carriages could be loose or worn.
But both of those issues that would cause obvious scan quality issues, like the scanned image having stretched or compressed looking areas.
An even more off the wall thing you might want to consider, if the scanner has an automatic document feeder, you might try getting a maintenance kit for it. Based on the info you gave, that is probably not the problem, still if the feed related rollers in the document feeder are worn they can make some pretty disturbing noises, while the scanned image will still look pretty good.
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