My desktop picture imprinted on my screen

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My desktop picture imprinted on my screen

For the last year, I've had the same desktop picture on my iMac screen (picture of a cruise ship). I've never noticed this problem until today: the lines and contour of the cruise ship are imprinted on my screen. When I change my desktop picture to a solid color, I still see the lines and contour of the cruise ship! Is there a way to fix this or is my monitor pretty much garbage. As a graphic designer, these lines are very distracting and I can't work like that...

Thank you for your help.

Julie

Posted on Apr 8, 2012 9:28 AM

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Answer 1

Rudegar

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Apr 8, 2012 10:31 AM in response to Julielb

this should not be possible unless one use other types of screens such as crt and plasma

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Julielb Author

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Apr 8, 2012 2:00 PM in response to Rudegar

Well it's possible... because it's happening to me! I have an iMac and am not using any other type of screen. I guess I'll have to bring it into Apple and see what they can do.

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mcsound

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Apr 8, 2012 8:00 PM in response to Julielb

Is your iMac constantly on? I have seen image burn in in LCD monitors before but only after they have been left on with the same image for a very long time. One thing you can try is to change your desktop to solid white and let it burn with nothing on the desktop for a while

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X423424X

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Apr 8, 2012 8:16 PM in response to Julielb

Image persistence is possible with lcds. There's a utility called LCD Scrub which tries to address the issue.

Apple's info on this:

Avoiding image persistence on Apple LCD displays

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_wli

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Jun 28, 2012 8:12 PM in response to Julielb

is your problem fixed now? I am currently having the same problem as you (i had a panda wallpaper on for over 6 months and now his face is burnt into the scree)...

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RRFS

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Jun 28, 2012 10:03 PM in response to Julielb

Are you not letting the monitor shift into energy saver or sleep mode?

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_wli

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Jun 29, 2012 12:17 AM in response to RRFS

i normally have it turning the screen off. but last few weeks i had it running always on... now i have to set it to play a white screen saver without going to sleep... been about two days now (i still use it / switched it off for transport for 70% of the time)... not seeing a big change yet.

i am thinking maybe i need to put it aside and stop using it for a few days running the white screen saver or i have to take it into apple store to get the screen replaced (meaning a 5 to 7 days down time...)

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Jul 7, 2013 10:56 AM in response to Julielb

I know it's like a year old, but I noticed the same problem last night. Apple Help section suggested to turn on a screen saver and let it run for awhile... fixed it.

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