[luisr]

I have one of those cheap Mustek scanners that is a little over three years old. It has been used quite a bit but not abused.

I have been noticing lately that images are coming a bit dark lately. When I got the scanner I was quite happy with it because I got very good images with good contrast and good color saturation. You could adjust the image to match the original with little or no rework at all. Three years later with same computer, same Windows version, same driver, about the same frequency of use; the images are coming out dark. This did not happen suddenly.

I am starting to suspect that the lamp is probably not as bright as when it was new but I have no way to determine that. Perhaps I am getting what I paid for.