Wednesday, June 23

What to do with a 7 year old scanner...  

I own a Mustek Paragon 1200 SP scanner. 30-bit color, legal size flat bed.I was happy with it.

I finally go it setup again. I installed my Adaptec 2940 SCSI adapter, got the scanner out, cabled it, found the Windows 2000 drivers for it, and everything seemed to be working. I decided to try and scan the cover off of a magazine. I did a prescan, and came up with... Black!

I open the cover and tell it to prescan again, thinking that I knew what was wrong. I was right, the bulb has burned out. 10 screws later, and a little pulling and cajoling, and I've got the bulb in my hand. I can't read the number on the bulb, it's a Phillip's TL 8W something 96 something? 5. I google for phillips tl8w, and manage to get a hit. What I have, is a TL 8W/96 There is also a TL 8W/84, which according to the website that I first hit, is for scanners. They have it for $8 plus shipping. Cool! Oh, but that's not the one, I need the /96, which is $21 plus shipping. I do some more spelunking and find that other people have this bulb as well. $55 list, $32 + shipping. Ouch!

At this point, buying a new scanner might make more sense. Although I would like to get this one fixed. It's nice, it does legal, which I think is a plus, it's 1200 × 1200 DPI in hardware, 600 × 1200 optical and pretty fast with the Adaptec adapter. A sheet feeder was available for it too, but that's probably an eBay item now. Of course, it's big, 5 inches think, bulky, and long because of the legal size. And it's noisy as heck when it's scanning. And I'm sure it chews up the watts as well.

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