If there's a black line when scanning but not when printing, you need to clean the scan bed. Either the glass has something on it or check the paper path if you're using the ADF. A single ink spot either place will print a line down the whole length of your scan.
SOURCE: When scanning or photocopying I
if you are using a fax machine, open top cover and clean roller with cotton cloth with some alcohol in it or take it to technician shop and have rollers replaced.
on scanners or all-in-one printers, this is a scanner head problem, take it for repair or buy new one (the cheapest).
SOURCE: Black stripe down middle of page when copying
open the top cover on the left hand side glass plateform with a narrow piece glass clean it with alcohol.
SOURCE: Black line down middle of page
Clean the inside of the printer with a soft rag, be gentle and get as much toner up as you can, also your toner carttridge may be empty or the crum may be bad, start with a fresh toner carttridge and clean the printer out where the cartridge sits.
SOURCE: Black line down the middle of scanned documents.
Try leaving the cover open and run a test scan, once with a fresh sheet as the item to be scanned and then a second time without anything on the table.
You may see what is blocking the light source or possibly a defect in it.
Scanning is done left-right, left-right across the width of the page and the vertical stripe indicates that the blockage is present during each scanned line.
In servicing copiers and multifunction machines, I have found a number of curious contaminents, one of the most annoying was a moth, still alive, that would randomly sit on the lamp, causing some pages to come out OK, others not.
If your copies and printouts are coming out fine, then only the scanner can be at fault.
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