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Old February 15th, 2015, 05:26 PM   #2
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That's a moire pattern, your scanner is trying to make sense of images printed as dots.

Try scanning at a different resolution or check your scanner's set up for a "de-moire" or "de-screen" setting.

http://www.scantips.com/basics6c.html
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