the_henry•17d agoProlific Poster

I finally got my old Canon flatbed scanner working again after 6 years

I pulled my Canon CanoScan LiDE 210 out of a box last week because I needed to scan some old family photos. It had been sitting in my garage since 2018 after I spilled tea on the lid. I thought it was totally dead but I just let it dry out and forgot about it. Plugged it in on Tuesday and it actually connected to my Windows 11 laptop after some driver hunting on a sketchy archive site. The scan quality is still really good for 2400 dpi and it did a whole stack of 50 photos in about an hour. Has anyone else had luck resurrecting an old USB scanner that everyone said to throw away?

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lindaw2917d ago

Lmao the sketchy archive site part hit me too! I had a similar thing with an old HP scanner from like 2009 that my dad swore was garbage. Found the driver on some russian forum that looked like it was from the early 2000s, total risk but it worked perfectly. The thing still scans like a champ even on Windows 10, I use it for digitizing my sketchbook pages. Honestly these old flatbeds are tanks compared to the newer cheap ones, I think people just get frustrated and toss them too fast.

olivia57317d ago

Oh man, "after some driver hunting on a sketchy archive site" really got me... I've been there so many times. It's amazing what still works if you just let it dry out and forget about it for a few years. I had an old Epson scanner that I rescued from a thrift store and it took me forever to find the right driver for Windows 10. Yours doing 50 photos in an hour is pretty impressive honestly, I feel like people toss these things way too quickly when they could still do the job. Good on you for not giving up on that Canon.