Sounds like a problem with a morie pattern. THe mag is printed with dots. And when your scanner trys to scan the dots, it creates various patterns. As Allie said, check your scanner software, and see if there is a "De-Screen" option. If there is this will try to compensate for the dots and smooth things out. Different scanning resolutions will also help. Try scanning at 150 dpi instead of 300 dpi, or 200 dpi. Hope this helps. James