Scott, Thanks for your input.
My scan lines are running across the frame, i.e. perpendicular to the scan direction. In addition, they are evenly spaced on the frame. I don't believe it's the scanner (hardware problem) as they only appear when doing 16 bit scans. They are not present on 8 bit scans nor are they present when scanning with VueScan. One Polaroid tech thought it was because I have service pack 4 on my Windows 2000 but another tech denied that and said it was because my scanner is on top of my PC and the emr from my PC was interferring with the scanner. I moved the scanner but the lines continue. Polaroid is now elevating the issue. What fun!!! Tom -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: May 25, 2004 10:03 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [filmscanners] RE: Lines in scans Your scanline problem sounds like an issue with Polacolor and/or your CPU and SCSI interface, but I'll relate a similar problem I had with my scanner anyway: I had to send my SS4000 back to Polaroid right after I bought it a few years ago to fix a scanline problem. I was seeing single pixel dark scanlines in the scan direction. There were 8 or ten, always in the same location and distributed randomly across the image and across color channels. Polaroid replaced the CCD. Lately I've been seeing these again and suspecting dust on the CCD, I disassembled my scanner, unbolted the daughter card on which the CCD is mounted and cleaned the cover glass with Pec-12 solution (pure alcohol). Since the front surface mirror was exposed, I also carefully cleaned it by blowing as much dust off of it as I could. A really dusty mirror will lower your image contrast. I don't really recommend anyone try this unless you an afford to trash your scanner :-). Anyway, this got rid of many, but not all, of the scanlines. It could be that some of the CCD cells are failing or dust somehow got under the cover glass, I suppose. Scott Robertson -- Scott L. Robertson Photography Travel, Editorial, Assignments & Prints www.slrobertson.com > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tony Sleep > Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 2004 3:34 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [filmscanners] Re: Lines in scans > > Thomas Maugham wrote: > > > > > Using a Polaroid SS4000 on a PC with Win 2000 Pro, > Polacolor 5.0, and > > Silverfast Ai 5.0, I am getting horizontal lines appearing > on my scans. > > There are about 12 lines evenly spaced. Interestingly, when I use > > VueScan the scans are fine. Can anyone PLEASE shed some > light on this? > > Could be some other process stealing CPU cycles. It's ages since I've > used Polacolor (VS works better for me), but did have the problem at > one time though I can't now remember what the culprit was. > > Regards > > Tony Sleep - http://www.halftone.co.uk > -------------------------------------------------------------- > -------------------------- > Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe > filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in > the message title or body > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ---------------- Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or body ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or body
