I have this Dell printer/scanner. All of my scans come out with a yellow tint, I'm not sure how to overcome it. I've fooled around with background settings and such, all to no avail, any ideas as to what the problem could be?

here is an example

id say the scanner is nackered
looks like the blue has gone unless you have the blue turn up in the settings

Since you seem confident that it's not a settings error, as others have said try it on another machine before pronouncing sentence. If worse comes to worst take a look at the Agfa SnapScan line of scanners. Mine has run flawlessly on Mac & PC platforms for a number of years now. The Epson Perfection line is also very reliable.

btw: try the scanner's default settings as well, if not already done so.

thanks for the advice guys, I'm gonna try it another PC and give the default settings another shot.

update, I tested it out on another PC and it worked fine, then I re-tried it on my new PC, and all is well, thanks for your help!

well thats strange

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