Jasen Betts wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason:

 RJT> The thing is doing *something*.  When I scan an image the status
 RJT> box in my software specifically states that it's "getting red
 RJT> data",  "getting green data",  and "getting
blue data" in
 RJT> succession,  and you can hear the mechanism make successive
 RJT> passes over the document.  So it's doing *something* between
 RJT> those,  I'm just not sure what..

 JB> there could be a filter there that moves in front of the imaging
 JB> chip (or in front of the lamp?)  posibly it's getting stuck on
 JB> something and not giving the requested colour?

That's exactly the sort of thing I was thinking of...

Only I haven't gotten in there yet.  Maybe soon,  we'll see.

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