Originally Posted by
BigLar
The moral of the story - printers and scanners are electromechanical devices. The electronics couldn't care less about dust, insect droppings, and the like, but the mechanical parts do. I've always taken the time to go over my printers to make sure they were clean, but I hadn't thought of the scanner.
Anyhow - a success story, and one happy camper here.
Which is why they are more problematic than most of the computer hardware.