Text Bleed Through
Text bleed through is a common occurrence that happens when you make scans from newsprint or books. This is also a common when making copies with copying machine. What's happening, is the light from the scanner/copier is passing through the paper, and picking up ghost images of the ink on the other side of the paper. There is a very easy to reduce this phenomena. Just place a piece of black construction paper, behind the page being scanned/copied. It's a very simple, and low tech way to solve the problem.
 Scanned image showing bleed through. |
 Scanned image using black cardboard backing, virtually eliminating the ghost images. |