Straight lines may appear in the image when dust or dirt gets inside of the scanner.
Clean the glass surfaces inside your scanner using a genuine Epson cleaning kit or the microfiber cloth that came with your
scanner.
See the User's Guide supplied with the scanner for detailed instructions on cleaning.
Remove dust, dirt, or other particles on the front and back of your photos.
Using Reduce lines and streaks feature, you can reduces the vertical lines or streaks of the scanned image caused by dirt on the glass surface inside the
scanner.
Click Settings > Advanced Settings tab, and then enable Reduce lines and streaks.
Note:
Depending on the dirt, lines and streaks may not be reduced correctly.
Using Detect Glass Dirt feature, alert message appears when dirt is detected on the scanner glass.
Click Settings > Scanner Settings tab > Device Settings, and then click the Scanner Setting tab on the Epson Scan 2 Utility screen. Select a setting for Detect Glass Dirt, and then click Set.
When an alert is displayed, clean the glass surfaces inside your scanner using a genuine Epson cleaning kit or the microfiber
cloth that came with your scanner.
Note:
Depending on the dirt, it may not be detected correctly.
If the detection does not work correctly, select a level from On-Low, On-High, or Off.