whats wrong?

half the screen is white when I try to scan

probly something wrong with the lights

the only time my scanner glitched out on me i needed to take it apart and clean the inside glass.

Just rotate the image on image editing software after scanning?

nope it don't work :I Sometimes I need to scan a full page

I'm good with computers, not printers, but I have to ask,

Is your scanner closed all the way when scanning?
How old is it?

Because it looks to me like your scanner might be shot. I'm going to school to be a Microsoft IT technician so I'll ask my teacher about it for you.

Assuming the problem your having is that the image seems to fade away and only half the picture shows up. ^^'

If it's just rotated wrong, just open the pic in your scanners software and rotate it, or even Windows Live Photo Gallery will do it.

no it's literally half the drawing is gone. Sometimes it works sometimes it doesn't work so well.
The scanner is closed all the way and such- but I think it's like 10 years old. I don't really have any options other than attempt to get this one working properly

Try placing something heavy on top of it to make sure all the light is blocked, or flipping the page around on the scanner.

Also, see if you can, after you scan the image, darken the picture. One of my pencil doodles came out way too bright, and I had to darken the picture as dark as possible to see everything.

yeah I'm used to darkening and changing the settings on my scanner but I tried everyone with this one

When was the last time you updated drivers? What's the exact make and model? And what operating system are you running? And what version, 32 or 64 bit? (Can be found by Start > Right click > Computer) I can try to look them up for you.

It's a CANOSCAN N650U/N656U

and they don't make drivers for windows 7
I've read that the drivers they do have for windows XP are compatible with windows 7. I downloaded it a few months ago and it was horrribleee. Very slow and crashed a lot. I just use GIMP to import the pictures

Dude, I hate to tell you, but considering that there is no driver support and it's over 8 years old, I think it's time to get a new printer. I saw a comment that suggested using Windows XP compatibility mode. That is a feature in Windows 7 Professional edition that allows you to run Windows XP inside Windows 7. It MIGHT fix your problem, but WinXP mode takes a while to set up (especially if you have slow internet) and based on the symptoms your scanner is giving you, it sounds like a hardware issue and not a software issue that XP mode can fix. I can show you have to try Windows XP mode, and you can PM me for that, but I have my doubt that will fix this and might end up being a waste of time. I think its time for a new scanner. :\

yeah I know I need a new scanner it's just ik a student and i dont have a job and all
this is all i got for now.
Scanner is on my christmas list

Sorry. Wish I could do more. :\

Good luck!

Hmm...well, you could always just take the two extra seconds to rotate it in your image editing program of choice :3 I'm not exactly sure how to adjust the scan in settings via a scanner. I've always just done it the "open in ms paint, ctrl+A, right click, select rotate" until it's how I like it.

Oh, also, try tinkering with different ways to lay the paper on the glass. maybe you'll trigger it to recognize it differently...

yeah That's what I have been doing, but it's so tedious and I'm trying to get teh problem fixed now instead of working around it.
I have like 60 drawings to scan and it would take WAY too long to do that to ALL of them

no look, the right half is gone

mutha FUCKA

penis

If you are using Win7, try using the OS's own scanner control panel instead of the provided software.

Seems like the brand name should be CANOTSCAN....

It doesn't have it's own software. I wasn't given drivers

If it's ten years old and sometimes does that and sometimes not, the flex connector migtht be damaged.
If it works okay with the preview, try scanning the image at a lower resolution like 72dpi.
If there was a light problem then the image would be half black or completely black (depending on the kind of illumination used)
I can see some lines on the white part, try tracing the skecthes harder and then lower the brightness/gamma when scanning.

yup this was scanned at 100dpi thanks for the suggestion I'll try it out

Here are the drivers for the scanner.

http://download.cnet.com/CanoScan-N.....8_4-56092.html

Hope that helps.

Yeah it's like 10 year old software it's horrid and unreliable- i downloaded it before. also I have windows 7.

tried running it in XP compatibility mode?

i... dont know what that is D:

A mode used to run the program as if it were running on a previous Windows version, here are some images: http://help.unc.edu/6037

that sounds like an excessive amount of effort just to scan something

come on, don't be that lazy XD

haaha well i need to scan like 60 things...

You can either scan a page twice for each side or... use a camera to to digitalize the sketchs ...or well, use someone's else scanner :P

You only have to run the program in compatibility once.

Damn this free technology, huh?

THANKS DON FOR THE FAULTY SCANNER
lol

For now scan as much as it'll let you, rotate it, scan the next bit etc.

Your drawing is being washed-out in that area from the scanner being too bright, assuming that side is the end where the light comes to rest, it passes over that area with light the most, which makes it brighter than the rest of the drawing.

I had the N670U series CanoScan scanner. Little blue and gray thing. It worked just fine on Windows 7 for me. I also had a HP 5700 scanner which also worked in Windows 7. (I had to test them and make sure they still worked before selling them.)

Download the latest driver available, and plug the scanner in. When it asks you for the drivers, select the folder where the drivers you just downloaded are. As for programs compatible with the software, I forget what I used, but I Googled around and eventually found the name of the program that was originally bundled with it. The only issue I had with compatibility was the physical buttons on the scanner did not work, and I had to use the buttons within the program.

I recommend a HP DeskJet 2050 for occasional scanning and printing jobs. I cost me like...$80 I think at WalMart back in 2011.

Sorry friend. It means your scanner is on the fritz!
My hp scanner died that way.


Call tech support. :D

BUT DONT BECAUSE HP HAS TERRIBLE TECHS.

LOL well I doubt they'd support a 10 year old scanner that i didn't buy it was given to me