My scanner is suddenly making colored pin stripes on color scans only. In grey scale its fine. I've tried playing with adjustments and tried auto adjust and nothing gets rid of them. Any ideas?
Posted by Jillbeans (Member # 1912) on :
Dave, My late scanner did this very thing a few months before its demise. I was able to preserve it for a short time by blowing it out with compressed air. Hope this helps! Love-JILL
Posted by fayette pivoda (Member # 4339) on :
If just one or a couple stripes oddly spaced, then I say the reader bar on the carraige inside is dirty, carefully get to it for a quick wipe with some glass cleaner on soft rag, while you got the scanner apart wipe down the underside of the glass face too.
If they're regularly spaced and the scanner is parallel ported to your computer, then check your port settings in the BIOS, some driver installations have been know to change these, especially if you connected a printer through the scanner.
If the scanner is one of these newer USB connected things, then I'd say chuck it, the last one I got cost $60 and I'll not spend time fixing it should it bug out.
It's almost to where I'd like to keep a 2nd new one around simply as a late night back up, they're that cheap anymore.
Hope this helps.
Posted by Steve Eisenreich (Member # 1444) on :
I have a older plustek scanner that needed a updated driver to fix that same problem. So first try looking for a update but if this is a problem that just started it might be the way the scanning bar moves on the track it might need greasing with some white lithium grease. And like others have said if this does not fix the problem well scanners are very cheap it might be time for a new one.
Posted by Dave Grundy (Member # 103) on :
Dave..With all the money you make ...just go buy a new scanner...$79 max...throw it away when it heads south!!!!!
Posted by Dave Sherby (Member # 698) on :
Dave, I wish. I'm in the biggest cash crunch since I've been in business. It has to be a mechanical problem since no new software or any other additions have been installed.
I might have to pull out my old grey scale scanner as a stop gap.
Posted by Robb Lowe (Member # 2121) on :
Dave, if I remember correctly you're a mac guy. Being that mac's were scsi by and large, I'm guessing your scanner is scsi or possibly usb/firewire? First thing I'd do is reinstall the software, as the 'layer' of data travel can sometimes corrupt a driver. (in Windows, it's called the aspi layer) Before you reinstall the driver on the CD that came with your scanner, try the website of the manufacturer for a newer version.
It's very rare for a scanner to go ape across the entire scan area, and still work. I'm betting it's a driver/software issue.
If nothing else works, I'm sure you can go buy a scanner, use it for your immediate need, return it for a refund. I once did this with a torque wrench from sears to change a blown head gasket!
Posted by old paint (Member # 549) on :
i knew a guy in sarasota....hada LAWN CARE/HANDY MAN business. used to do that kinda crap all the time.....he needed a big chain saw for one job....went to sears got a big mutaha...did the tree work..cleaned up the saw and took it back...he called SEARS RENTALS!!!! i never thought much of him, for that....but he thought it was funny... iam one of those guys....i buy tools/equip if i find a good deal on something, and i think i will use it one time...i buy it!!! i do most of my own car repairs...was in BIG LOTS one day.....they had a 36", 3/8 drive rachet, EXTENTION..yea 36 INCHES!!!!! well it wasnt a MAC/SNAP-ON/PROTO.....but i knew that sometime, someplace i WOULD need that!!!!!!! hehehehehe this is me.....hehehhe
Posted by Jillbeans (Member # 1912) on :
Hey Dave, You could always sell it to Milwaukee Iron! That way their "graphics" could have an outline! Baddabing! Luv Silly Jilly
Posted by Bill Modzel (Member # 22) on :
Dave, Are you scanning a photograph or a process printed piece? Evenly spaced "pinstripes" from a process printed scan are not unusual and can be minimized by slanting the original on the scanner bed and applying some of the descreening filters.
If you have a few random streaks across the whole scan I'd attribute it to dust. I had that problem and out of frustration, I pulled the thing apart, cleaned the glass inside and out and blew a little compressed air, VERY lightly. There was no visible dust or dirt anywhere before or after this process but when it was put back together the streaks were gone.
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