#MY SCANNER HAS LINES SOFTWARE#

#MY SCANNER HAS LINES SOFTWARE#

If that doesn’t work, try the solution outlined here:ġ. Open your scanning software and select the settings you normally use.Ģ. It only takes one good-sized piece of dust between the scan head and the light source to produce a pretty prominent line on the image. So how do you get rid of banding? If you’re using a dedicated negative/slide scanner (as opposed to a flat-bed model), the first thing to try is dusting off the scan head with a blower bulb or compressed air.

Where it typically becomes an issue is with older equipment, or in my case, a scanner that has just exceeded its warranty period. Most scanners produce a small amount of banding, but it’s usually not noticeable. Negatives that are particularly dense tend to exhibit the problem more than thin ones. If parts of the array differ in sensitivity, you get an unevenness in the resulting scan that manifests itself as one or more ruler straight bands.īanding is most obvious in photos that have large, even-toned areas (such as sky, or water), and is least troublesome in images that have plenty of intricate detail. What’s the cause? Consider how a scanner works: a single-line CCD array slowly sweeps across your negative, slide, or print. Sometimes its appearance is subtle, sometimes it’s not. One of the most common scanning problems is a defect known as image banding.

(The defects are enhanced here for clarity.) The vertical streaks in this sample image are the result of scanner banding.

My scanner has lines