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Title: Horrible- don't buy this scanner!
Review: Although it looks cool...the quality of my color photos are horrible. They have the vertical bands on dark areas (that others have been complaining about) as well as tons of "dust" spots...no matter how much I clean it with a lint-free cloth. I never had these problems on my older cheap scanner (non HP). I contacted HP support and they were nice but unable to fix my problem. The best answer they could give is that the bands may be caused from "interference" from other electronics. I find it interesting that so many people are having the same problem. I also have trouble getting the photos straight since they tend to move after they are put in the scanner...and since the scanner is smooth there is no guard to rest the picture next to if you take it out of the holder. The software is not very good...does not offer multi-scanning...so it takes forever to scan a lot of pics!
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