I had this problem and fixed it. I wrote up a giant reply here detailing how I fixed it but it disappeared/got deleted?In a nutshell, the problem was the flex cable connecting the moving scanner head to the edge of the scanner (under the platen). T...
I have exactly this same problem. I wrote detailed repair instructions with links and photos and the reply don't appear in the thread. It was a long post that took an hour to write and, to be honest, at this point, I'm not that interesting in writi...