hans andersson Posted December 28, 2002 Share Posted December 28, 2002 Hi I have bought a new "Better Scanner" I had a Minolta DualII and due to to much workj with cleaning from dust and scratses, I bought a Minolta Scal Elite II that have the IR equipment. But to my supprise did I got lines on the scanning, and if I used an USB hub they was worce, and when i talk with Minolta in Sweden they tould me that I could just conect the scanner dorect to USB or Firewire that is mounted direct on the motherboard, so i was no use to by a firewire card. Now have I bought a strong computor. A Philips 3,05 Ghz withfour UYSB on the motherboartd, but it seams that all give the lines. What to do, is is only to bye an other scanner of anouter brand, or do any of you have any sudgestion? The PC have 750 MB primary memory, 12o GB HD and a strong grafical card, so I can not see that it will be the limitations of the PC. Regards Hans Andersson<div></div> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonathan_ratzlaff Posted December 28, 2002 Share Posted December 28, 2002 Was this scan of a negative or a slide? Can you just upload a part of the image. this is a pretty large image to look at. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hans andersson Posted December 28, 2002 Author Share Posted December 28, 2002 It is a negative. I have now continuied my tryes, and it looks as i have less problem by using the Dimage Scan sw. But Im not absolutly sure if it will be free of the lines. Hans A Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwilburn Posted December 28, 2002 Share Posted December 28, 2002 Hans, are you using the IR Cleaning function of Vuescan when you're scanning? Have you tried it without IR cleaning? I get banding with Vuescan when using the IR function on my Scan Elite II. My scans don't have the banding when I use Digital ICE with the Minolta SW but the Minolta SW clips the images so much it's useless. So I use Vuescan without any IR cleaning and do the touchup in Photoshop. Annoying and time consuming ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mark_thomas3 Posted December 29, 2002 Share Posted December 29, 2002 This looks like incredibly bad calibration (check your manual - I think there is some odd keypress or menu function to calibrate the Minolta), system activity during the scan, or bad electrical interference - check all your cabling locations and connections. Try making sure that no other software is running while you scan, disable any memory resident programs and/or your internet connection. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oleg_kosyakovsky Posted December 29, 2002 Share Posted December 29, 2002 Ask Minolta support how to reset the scanner. With Scan Dual 2 the procedure is to start Minolta utility and press Ctrl-Shift-i. Then you exit the Minolta utility, run Vuescan, and there is no more banding. I do it each time I switch the scanner on.By the way, I consider switching to Scan Elite 2 for the same reason as you did. Hope this helps,Oleg. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roy_kerckhoffs Posted January 26, 2003 Share Posted January 26, 2003 I have the same problem. And indeed when you turn off IR cleaning in Vuescan, the lines are gone. Referring to the answer, which brought up that they're no lines with IR cleaning with the Minolta SW, this means it's Vuescan's fault? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roy_kerckhoffs Posted January 28, 2003 Share Posted January 28, 2003 In the meantime, there's a new version of VUEscan and the problem doesn't exist anymore. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeff_holman Posted February 12, 2003 Share Posted February 12, 2003 Just to reiterate Roy's comment above, Ed seems to have fixed this problem with his latest versions of VueScan. (I experienced the exact same "banding" when using IR cleaning on my CanoScanFS4000.) For those who use VueScan, I would highly recommend visiting his site fairly frequently and downloading the latest version of the product. He continually makes significant improvements that address specific software issues and enhance general scan quality. On a separate note, I also want to second the suggestion above to pay attention to the physical location of your scanner. I previously experienced a different, unrelated banding problem which persisted through several new units, countless software re-installations and hours on the phone with tech support. In the end, all it took to fix the problem was to move the scanner about two feet further away from the cordless phone base it had been stationed next to. Even if you�re not aware of any specific problems, it might be worth trying some different locations . . . there could be some low-level interference from other equipment that causes subtle degradations to your image quality. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geofoto Posted April 14, 2003 Share Posted April 14, 2003 This problem is due to dust on the scanner mirror. You can either clean it by yourself or give it to Minolta service. I cleaned it a couple of times. It's very easy to do if you believe in your hands. You have to open the scanner and find a small mirror. It's located at the bottom of black box you'll se there. Best regards, George Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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