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iVina Color Document Scanner with Flatbed and Automatic Document Feeder User’s Manual August 2010 ...

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ii Regulatory model: DF-0510 Trademarks Microsoft is a U.S. registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation. Windows and Windows Vista are trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. IBM, IBM PC are registered trademarks of International Business ...

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F200 Manual V.5 Aug 2010 iii FCC Radio Frequency Interference Statement This product has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a class B digital device, pursuant to Part 15 of the FCC rules. Operation is subject to the ...

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iv Disposal of Waste Equipment This symbol on the product or on its packaging indicates that the product can not be disposed of with your other household waste. Instead it should be sent to appropriate facilities for recovery and recycli...

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F200 Manual V.5 Aug 2010 v Table of Contents 1. Introduction ............................................................ 1-1 2. Scanner Installation ............................................. 2-1 2.1 Installing the ADF Paper Tray........

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vi 7.1 Frequently asked Questions ........................... 7-1 7.2 Technical Service ......................................... 7-3 8. Specifications .......................................................... 8-1 Index .....................

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F200 Manual V.5 Aug 2010 1-1 1. Introduction Congratulations on your purchase of the BulletScan F200 document scanner. Before you install and operate the new scanner, please take a few minutes to read through this manu...

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1-2 Note: 1. Only use the BulletScan Type 1 AC adapter (HEG42- 240200-7L made by HiTron) included in the machine. Using other AC adapters may damage the machine and void the warranty. 2. Please unpack the packing carefully, and check t...

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F200 Manual V.5 Aug 2010 2-1 2. Scanner Installation Precautions  Keep the scanner out of direct sunlight. Direct exposure to the sun or excessive heat may cause damage to the unit.  Do not install the scanner in a humid ...

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2-2 2.1 Installing the ADF Paper Tray 1. Attach the Paper Support to the ADF Paper Tray as shown below. 2. Insert the ADF Paper Tray to the scanner as indicated. ...

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F200 Manual V.5 Aug 2010 2-3 2.2 Connecting the ADF Cable Connect the ADF cable to the ADF port at the rear panel as below. 2.3 Removing the shipping lock 1. Locate the lock switch beneath the scanner. 2. Unlock the scanner by mo...

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2-4 2.4 Installing the Scanner Driver and Cables Note: To ensure your computer can identify the USB scanner, please install scanner driver first before connecting the scanner to your computer. 2.4.1 Connecting to Power 1. Plug the sm...

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F200 Manual V.5 Aug 2010 2-5 2.4.2 Installing the Scanner Driver 1. Place the supplied CD-ROM onto your CD-ROM drive. 2. The software installation screen appears. If not, run “setup.exe”. Contents on the instal...

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2-6 2.4.3 Connecting to Computer 1. Connect the square end of the USB cable to the USB port of your scanner. Connect the rectangle end to the USB port of your computer. ...

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F200 Manual V.5 Aug 2010 2-7 2. The computer should detect a new USB device and prompt a “New Hardware Found” message. 3. In Windows XP, installation will continue automatically. In Windows Vista and 7, click the Finish Installing ...

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F200 Manual V.5 Aug 2010 3-1 3. Completing Your First Scan 3.1 Loading Paper in the ADF Place your document with the text facing up and top end going in first, as shown below. ABC 123 Top of Pag...

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3-2 3.2 Placing paper on the glass Place your document with the text facing down on the glass and align your document to the reference mark, as indicated Reference mark ...

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F200 Manual V.5 Aug 2010 3-3 3.3 Verifying Your Scanner Installation Before you begin, be sure the scanner is on. Once you've loaded your scanner, you should be able to begin scanning simply by clicking on the BulletScan icon in t...

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3-4 there is nothing in the start menu labeled ―BulletScan‖ you must install the scanner driver from the CD. 2. The Select Scanner Model dialog box will be displayed. 3. Select TWAIN (your driver type) and the F200 (scanner model) a...

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F200 Manual V.5 Aug 2010 3-5 7. From the Image Selection Box, choose your desired image type for your scanned image. (Default is Front B&W) If you have a duplex scanner, choose Front and Rear to scan both sides of your doc...

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3-6 12. You can view the scanned image in Fit Page ( ) or Actual Size (100%) button ( ) from the Viewing toolbars at the right side. 13. Click the Close box or Quit from the File menu to exit the Scan Validation Tool. ...

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F200 Manual V.5 Aug 2010 3-7 3.3.1 A Glance of the Scanner Properties Dialog Box 1. Tab Options Choice: Image, Compression, Color Dropout, Paper, Options, Settings, Information. 2. Image Selection Box Choose your image ty...

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F200 Manual V.5 Aug 2010 4-1 4. Using the Scanner Properties Dialog Box The Scanner Properties dialog box allows you to configure the scanner’s settings. It consists of several tabbed windows each of which will be described in t...

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4-2 4.1 Buttons on the Scanner Properties Dialog Box The buttons on the Scanner Properties dialog box Buttons Description Defaults Click the Defaults button, the factory default settings will be shown on each tab. Scan Afte...

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F200 Manual V.5 Aug 2010 4-3 The following table shows the default settings: Tab name Default settings Image Image:Front B&W Binarization:Dynamic Threshold Resolution:200 dpi Invert:Blank on White Scan Source:A...

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4-4 4.2 The Image Tab The Image tab allows you to choose the type of image, and to set several basic scan settings. The Image tab dialog box ...

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F200 Manual V.5 Aug 2010 4-5 4.2.1 The Image Selection Box The Image Selection box includes the image type and document side option. The F200 is a Simplex Scanner and only supports scanning one side of a document at a time. Examp...

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4-6 Example 2:Scanning a two-sided color document, one in B&W(Drop Blue Color:Threshold:10, Background: 79), the other in color Side/Image Selection Front Rear 2 Image Type Description Color Choose Color...

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F200 Manual V.5 Aug 2010 4-7 Front/Rear Auto Color Detection: Click to automatically detect and scan the front or the rear page of your color document in color image mode. If your document is in color, the scanner will automatically sc...

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4-8 4.2.2 Other Image Options Binarization This is the process of converting a grayscale or color image to a bi-tonal or Black and White image. There are several different methods of performing this conversion. Options: Dynamic Thres...

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F200 Manual V.5 Aug 2010 4-9 Fixed Processing: Used for black-and- white and other high contrast documents. A single level is set to determine the black- and-white transition. The threshold is programmable over the entire density r...

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F200 Manual V.5 Aug 2010 4-11 Threshold Used to convert a grayscale image to a bi-tonal image. The value ranges from 0 to 255. A low threshold value produces a lighter image, and can be used to subdue backgrounds and subtle, unneede...

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4-12 Gray Document Type: Normal, Photo, Document Three options of document type are provided when you choose Gray as the image type for your scanned document. Normal, Photo, Document.  Document: Choose Document if your original ...

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F200 Manual V.5 Aug 2010 4-13 Normal Photo Document (Threshold: 230) Normal Photo Document (Threshold: 230) ...

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4-14 Brightness Adjusts the lightness or darkness of an image. The higher the value, the brighter the image. Drag the slider to the right or left to increase or decrease the brightness. The range is from –100 to +100. Contrast ...

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F200 Manual V.5 Aug 2010 4-15 Resolution Resolution is the value that controls how much information is captured when the scan is performed. A higher resolution will capture more information and increase the file size, trading off pe...

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4-16 Invert Reverses the brightness and the colors in the image. The default setting is Black on a White background. Reverse mode is White on a Black background. For color images, each pixel will be changed into its complementary co...

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F200 Manual V.5 Aug 2010 4-17 Scan Source Choice:  Auto Document Feeder: Used to scan multiple pages.  Flatbed: Used to scan a single page. For example, pages from newspaper clipping, paper with wrinkles or curls.  Au...

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4-18 Color Matching The purpose of Color Matching is getting the accurate color. This option uses the default parameters (ICC profile) to adjust the colors of the image. Normal ...

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F200 Manual V.5 Aug 2010 4-19 4.2.4 Scanning grayscale images The following options are available for scanning gray images.  Brightness  Contrast  Resolution  Invert 4.2.5 Scanning B&W images The following o...

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4-20 4.2.6 Editing Profiles The Scanner Properties dialog box allows you to change and save your frequently used scan settings into a profile. You can edit these profiles by renaming or deleting them. To add a new profile, 1. Cust...

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F200 Manual V.5 Aug 2010 4-21 To load a profile, 1. From the Image tab dialog box, choose your favorable profile from the ―Profiles‖ dropdown list box. 2. Your favorable profile will be immediately loaded and displayed on Scann...

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4-22 To rename a profile, 1. From the Image tab dialog box, click ―Profiles‖ to prompt the Edit Your Profile dialog box. 2. Choose the profile you want to rename from the dropdown list box and then click the Rename button. ...

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F200 Manual V.5 Aug 2010 4-23 4.3 The Compression Tab The Compression tab allows you to compress your scanned image and choose the level of compression. Bi-tonal images are normally compressed using CCITT standard called Group 4 (G4). Co...

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4-24 The Compression tab dialog box ...

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F200 Manual V.5 Aug 2010 4-25 4.4 The Color Dropout Tab 4.4.1 Color Dropout Selection Color Dropout is a special type of image processing designed to improve OCR results by removing specific types of background color content. Typically...

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4-26 The Color Dropout dialog box ...

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F200 Manual V.5 Aug 2010 4-27 4.4.2 Other Color Dropout Options Advanced Processing provides two options that can adjust your scanned image in the best optimal result. Filter Threshold This value is used to determine the color whic...

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4-28 Remove Blue, Threshold: 20, Background: 255 Remove Blue, Threshold: 20, Background Level: 210 ...

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F200 Manual V.5 Aug 2010 4-29 4.5 The Paper Tab The Paper tab allows you to define values relating to image output (i.e., Auto Crop or not, Scan Area, OverScan). The Paper tab dialog box ...

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4-30 4.5.1 Cropping Cropping allows you to capture a portion of the document being scanned. Choice: Automatic, Fixed to Transport, EOP (End of Page) Detection, Automatic Multiple. Options Description Automatic Automatic adjust...

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F200 Manual V.5 Aug 2010 4-31 Automatic Multiple This option allows you to place various sized documents such as photos, ID Cards, or business cards on the flatbed (if available) and lets you create multiple individually cropped ima...

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4-32 4.5.2 Other Paper Selection Deskew Use this option to automatically deskew a document. Scan Area Choose your desired paper size with the drop-down list box. Or you may select a custom paper size by clicking the Scan Area ...

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F200 Manual V.5 Aug 2010 4-33 Choose ―Unknown Length‖ if you have a batch of long page document with unknown length. Choose ―Enter Length‖ to enter the length and width of your documents or your desired scan size on documents. Thi...

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4-34 Note: 1 Within the specified timeout period, if you load your document to the feeder, the scanner starts scanning automatically. 2 If you place your paper on the flatbed, after the timeout period, you need to click the Scan butt...

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F200 Manual V.5 Aug 2010 4-35 3. Click the Preview tab to display the Preview window. A black rectangular box appears to indicate the max. scan size your have just selected. 4. Click the Preview button to view the entire image in ...

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4-36 5. Select the image type from the Image Selection box. The selected image will appear in highlighted color. (For example, Front Color) 6. Place your cursor on the Preview window and click your left mouse button. A cross sign will ...

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F200 Manual V.5 Aug 2010 4-37 7. Check the B&W image from the Image Selection box to scan the entire document. 8. Click the Scan button to start scanning the document in two image types and sizes. (See the re...

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4-38 4.6 The Multi-Feed Detection Tab Multi-Feed Detection Multi-Feed Detection allows you to detect overlapped document that go through the auto document feeder. Multi-Feed usually occurs due to stapled documents, adhesives on documen...

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F200 Manual V.5 Aug 2010 4-39 Additional Length Detection Additional Length Detection allows you to define the length of document being multi-fed. This value indicates the additional length exceeding your scan area. The Display window wi...

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4-40 Clear the Multi-Fed Paper: Choice: Manual, Auto If Auto is selected, once multi-feed is detected and scanning operation is stopped, the scanner will automatically clear the transport of the multi-fed paper. If manual is selected, ...

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F200 Manual V.5 Aug 2010 4-41 How to add the sound alarm: 1. Click the Browse button on the right side of the speaker icon. The Open dialog box appears. 2. Choose your wave file. 3. Click the Open button. The wave file is added. ...

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4-42 4.7 The Preview Tab The Preview tab allows you to preview (a low-resolution scan) your image before the actual scan. This preview image lets you manually select your scan area. You can choose your scan area by the ―Scan Area‖ d...

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F200 Manual V.5 Aug 2010 4-43 4.8 The Options Tab The Options tab allows you to set following additional image processing settings. The Option tab dialog box ...

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4-44 Flip Side Rotation Select ―fanfold‖ to rotate the image of the reverse side to 180 degrees. This is applied to double-sided document which are viewed in portrait are sometime fed into the scanner in landscape or vice vers...

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F200 Manual V.5 Aug 2010 4-45 Rotate Image Choose the rotation angle from the drop down list if you wish to rotate your scanned image. Choice: None, 90°CW(clockwise), 90°CCW(counter clockwise), 180°, Auto based on contents. Auto ro...

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4-46 Blank Page Removal Check if you wish to remove the blank page and move the slider to the left or right to your desired threshold. Edge Fill Check White or Black if you wish to add white or black edge on the border of y...

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F200 Manual V.5 Aug 2010 4-47 Image Control Option Check the Mirror box if you wish to reverse the right and left side of your image. Original The Mirror Effect ...

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4-48 Despeckle Occasionally small dots or specks appear in the background of a scanned image. Remove unwanted speckles provides a cleaner image for OCR (Optical Character Recognition) processing, and also helps to reduce compressed file ...

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F200 Manual V.5 Aug 2010 4-49 Background Setting This option allows you to set your scan background. Choice: White Background, Black Background. White Background Black Background ...

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4-50 4.9 The Setting Tab The Setting tab allows you to set the following settings: The Setting tab dialog box Energy Saving Control Check the Enable Energy Saver box and move the slider to the right to set the amount of time to...

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F200 Manual V.5 Aug 2010 4-51 Cache Mode: None, Page Number, Memory Size. This option allows you to assign a specified memory size from the available RAM to process the image data. By specifying a smaller memory size, you can fre...

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4-52 Show Scanning Progress Check and the scanning progress bar will be shown during scanning. Show Warning Message Check to show the warning messages such as ―ADF pad count exceeds 50,000 scans (the number varies based on t...

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F200 Manual V.5 Aug 2010 4-53 4.10 The Information Tab The Information tab displays the following system and scanner information. The Information tab dialog box The “Report” button: If you encounter any error message while...

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4-54 The “Reset Pad Count” button」: After scanning approximately 20,000 pages (the number varies based on type of scanner, type of paper and size of batches) through the Auto Document Feeder (ADF), the ADF pad may be worn out and...

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F200 Manual V.5 Aug 2010 5-1 5. Using the Buttons The convenient buttons on the scanner is shown as below: Function Display Function Selector The Scan Button The Cancel/Stop Button ...

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5-2 5.1 The BulletScan Manager The buttons on the scanner are controlled by the BulletScan Manager. It is installed by default from the CD when you use the Easy Installation mode, and is selected by default when choosing the Advanced Insta...

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F200 Manual V.5 Aug 2010 6-1 6. Care and Maintenance 6.1 Cleaning the ADF Your scanner is designed to be maintenance-free. However, it still needs to be cleaned occasionally to ensure optimum image quality and performance. Th...

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6-2 ADF pad Roller ADF front cover ...

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F200 Manual V.5 Aug 2010 6-3 6.2 Cleaning the Glass The procedures 1) Soak a cotton swab with some isopropyl alcohol. (95%) 2) Open the ADF unit and document cover as shown below. Wipe the glass of flatbed and ADF area by moving the ...

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6-4 6.3 Replacing the ADF detachable pad module After scanning approximately 20,000 pages through the ADF, the pad spring may be worn out and you may experience problems with document feeding. In this case, it is highly recommended to repl...

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F200 Manual V.5 Aug 2010 7-1 7. Troubleshooting If you have problems with the operation of your scanner, please check the following troubleshooting hints. 7.1 Frequently asked Questions Question: Paper becomes jammed during ...

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7-2 Question: Paper becomes skewed in the scanner. Answer: 1) Check the feeding roller condition; do the cleaning if necessary. 2) Use the paper guide when feeding the paper. Question: When I power on the scanner, it makes no...

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F200 Manual V.5 Aug 2010 7-3 7.2 Technical Service Before contacting iVina, please prepare the following information:  Scanner serial & revision number (located on the bottom of the scanner);  Hardware configuration (e....

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F200 Manual V.5 Aug 2010 8-1 8. Specifications All specifications are subject to change without notice. Model Name BulletScan F200 Scanner Type ADF/Flatbed Desktop scanner Scanning Mode 48-bit color 256 shades of gra...

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F200 Manual V.5 Aug 2010 a Index A Additional Length Detection, 4-39 Auto Color Detection sensitivity, 4-7 B B&W, 4-6 Background Level, 4-27 Background Setting, 4-49 Barcode, 4-51 Binarization Dynamic Threshold, Fixed P...

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b I Invert, 4-16 J JPEG, 4-23 M Mirror, 4-51 Multi-Feed Detection, 4-35 O OverScan, 4-33 P Print All, 4-59 R Reset Pad Count, 4-62 Reset Roller Count, 4-62 Resolution, 4-15 Rotate Image, 4-49 S Scan Area, 4-32 �...