How to Scan Magazines - A discussion

[Darth Joules]

Originally Posted by karenwhitefan

RE technical poser. It's not a problem with your scanner. It looks like a very slight kink in the top of the page which is deflecting the beam of the scanner slightly.

Nope!

It is a technical fault with the scanner and unfortunately one that it appears to have had from the day I've bought it. The mark appears in any scan where the source material is dark enough for it to show. I was rooting through some old scans, lo and behold, there was the mark in some scans I did after I bought it.

So it's either a mark that got there when it was assembled in the factory, or it might a slight reflection of the scanning assembly just as the scan begins (since it is uncannily mirrors the same shape as the assembly).

What's worse than having to buy a new scanner to replace it is having bin nearly 80% of my scans and know that I'll have to rescan almost everything!!