Scanner light burnt out...suggestions?

[beverage]

I have a visioneer 6100 USB scanner and recently the light burnt? out. Are the bulbs in scanners generally replaceable, or is it more trouble than it's worth to attempt to do so?

 

[everman]

Not sure if they're replacable or not...They usually aren't hard to get into though as I've opened some before which got stuck without a problem. These days you can get a pretty decent scanner for under 100 bucks or even around 50 (if you do mostly text and a few photos, nothing super high quality).

 

[sharkeeper]

Most use a form of CC. If you sub, just be sure to replace it with a natural "daylight" CC or your scans will look funky!

Cheers!

 

[skatertech]

Depending on the scanner, it can be a real pain to replace.

Just go buy a new scanner, it's a better deal.