1. A method of removing optical iridescent artifacts that appear in scanned image of an article having a transparent and reflective surface comprising: identifying potential optical iridescent artifacts in the image resulting from the scan using a search pattern on the image of the article; confirming through a color analysis operation that the potential optical iridescent artifacts discovered along the search pattern are optical iridescent artifacts and not printed on the article; and removing the confirmed iridescent artifacts from the image.