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How do you turn off parental control on a scanner?

I have a dell combination scanner printer copier connected to a P C . I want to scan an old photograph and convert it into a digital image file that I will email to my friend. When I try to do this the computer won't allow it.even though I am an adult.

Now I do realise a responsible company would have to put a parental control over that, or the teen-age boys who could get at the machine could abuse it horribly.

Back when I was a teenager I foolishly allowed my boyfriend to photograph my naked bum.

If he could use a scanner back then, he could scan that photograph and turn it into data, which would then be used to duplicate this photo on printers all over the world!

Surely, they can't allow this.

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  • 9 years ago
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    Since that thing is a Dell, It has probably ran out of ink.

    This is a racket that Dell does with it's cheapo Chinese made printers.

    The ink cartridge quickly runs out of 1 color of ink. You must then spend $20+ dollars on a new Dell ink cartridge. If you don't, your machine goes into a shut down mode until you install a fresh Dell ink cartridge. This device insures that a picture you want to print, will not be ruined because an ink jet did not have all of the needed ink available.

    It also insures that Dell will continue to make a windfall profit on its ink.

    While those Dell SCPs may seem like a super bargain when you buy the package deal, you are only getting what you pay for. Believe me if you had bought a quality brand of printer then, you wouldd'nt have this problem now.

    I have never heard of anyone having this problem with an Apple printer.

  • 9 years ago

    I would tell you if I knew you were an adult.

    I can't take your word for it, because every thing about you makes me suspect that behind that disguise you are a teen aged boy who just broke up with his girlfriend.

    You have a photo graph which you took when you got her drunk and she passed out, and you think you can get even with her by putting that pic in photobucket.

    I just can't allow you to that, therefore you are not allowed to use your mom's scanner.

    If she approves of the pic, have her scan it.

  • Anonymous
    5 years ago

    you've pop up blocker on and your getting pop ups? do not visit porn internet sites. BT help isn't value of a decision to India for 2 hours. Its no longer the pcs fault nor your ISP's. that is the customers fault there are fairly some belongings you ought to/ought to do. solid success

  • 9 years ago

    Your Mum or Dad will do this for you when they think you are old enough

    Source(s): scuttlebutt
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