Plustek 8100 - faulty scans, red lines and partly scanned frame

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Plustek 8100 - faulty scans, red lines and partly scanned frame

Postby stilken » Sun Mar 05, 2017 9:43 pm

Hi.

Recently i bought a Plustek 8100 to scan some negatives but i'm having some trouble getting SilverFast to function reliably.
The most annoying problem i'm having is this: Sometimes when doing a prescan or full scan i get something that looks like the attached image. This happens completely at random, but i have never been able to get more than 5-10 "good" scans in a row.
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Sometimes the issue is fixed temporarily by quitting Silverfast and restarting the scanner. But more often than not i'll just have to do a bunch of scans/prescans before the issue fixes itself and I can continue scanning.

Multi exposue will always trigger the issue as well, and I'll get images looking like this.
roll3_040_ME.jpg
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Is this a known bug, or do you think the faulty scans could be hardware-related (something wrong with the scanner itself)?
I'm running the latest update of Silverfast, and the latest drivers on OS X 10.11.

Thank you!

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Re: Plustek 8100 - faulty scans, red lines and partly scanned frame

Postby LSI_Ketelhohn » Wed Mar 08, 2017 3:41 pm

Dear user,

That looks like a hardware issue.
You should contact Plustek support about this.

Kind regards,
Arne

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Re: Plustek 8100 - faulty scans, red lines and partly scanned frame

Postby JW1337 » Tue Aug 29, 2017 1:53 am

I get similar issue on the preview, but the thumbnail preview is ok & image comes out normal.
Less & less visible with each preview. Until it's just the grey default background colour.

How do i know where to even scan? How to fix?
I've tried uninstall/reinstall.

Win10 & latest version SF 8.8

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Re: Plustek 8100 - faulty scans, red lines and partly scanned frame

Postby LSI_Ketelhohn » Tue Aug 29, 2017 1:38 pm

Dear JW1337,

Please download our latest update. The issue you seem to have is fixed there.

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