# What's Wrong With My Scanner?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-wrong-with-my-scanner/199010>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [September 1, 2003, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-wrong-with-my-scanner/199010 "2003-09-01T20:11:41Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\
**Post date:** [September 1, 2003, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-wrong-with-my-scanner/199010/1 "2003-09-01T20:11:41Z")

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I have an HP 5470c that worked fine up until now with Windows XP. I tried scanning a photo this morning and I ended up with one of those jaggedy large-pixel looking scans. I tried tinkering with the resolution in the scan program, but to no avail. Suggestions please?

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**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\
**Post date:** [September 1, 2003, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-wrong-with-my-scanner/199010/2 "2003-09-01T20:13:41Z")

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Never mind. I unplugged it and reset the thing and now it works fine. Sorry for the waste of pixels.