Epson 1240U User Manual

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EPSON Perfection 1240U EPSON Perfection 1240U PHOTO Scanner Basics basics.book Page i Tuesday, October 24, 2000 9:53 AM ...

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ii Copyright Notice All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior writt...

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Contents iii Contents A Complete Scanning Solution 1 Getting More Information 1 Cautions, Notes, and Tips 2 Setting Up Your Scanner 3 Unpack Your Scanner 3 Choose a Good Place for Your Scanner 4 Unlock and Initialize the Scanner 5 Connect the Sc...

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iv Contents Scanning Projects 30 Scanning and Converting a Text Document 30 Scanning a Document to E-mail 34 Scanning and Copying 35 Scanning for Creativity 36 Scanning with EPSON TWAIN 37 Selecting TWAIN from Your Application 37 Using EPSON T...

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Contents v Problem Solving 55 Scanner Light and Buttons 55 Problems and Solutions 57 Setup Problems 57 Scanner Problems 57 Software Problems 59 Scanning Problems 61 Where To Get Help 67 EPSON Technical Support 67 Bonus Software Technical Supp...

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1 A Complete Scanning Solution Your EPSON Perfection ® 1240U scanner is a professional-quality, 42-bit scanner packed with easy-to-use scanning features for business, home, or school. The “plug & play” USB connection is fast and easy with...

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2 A Complete Scanning Solution ■ Other Electronic Documents EPSON Smart Panel includes an electronic manual in the Adobe ® Acrobat ® PDF format. See page 25 for instructions on accessing and reading this manual. Your scanner or bonus software...

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3 Setting Up Your Scanner Setting up your scanner is easy—just follow the simple steps in this book in the order listed below. 1. Unpack and choose a place for your scanner. 2. Unlock and initialize the scanner. 3. Connect the scanner to your comp...

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4 Setting Up Your Scanner Your EPSON Perfection 1240U PHOTO also includes the items shown here. You can store the transparency unit in the packing materials when you are not scanning transparencies. Choose a Good Place for Your Scanner Here are ...

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Setting Up Your Scanner 5 Unlock and Initialize the Scanner Before connecting the scanner to a power source, you must release the transportation lock on the back of the scanner. Before connecting the scanner to your computer, follow the steps below...

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6 Setting Up Your Scanner The scanner lamp comes on when it is plugged in, but goes into sleep mode when it has not been used for 15 minutes. The lamp comes back on when you scan. Unplug the scanner when you have finished using it. If you need to p...

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Setting Up Your Scanner 7 Your system may not work correctly if you use a USB cable other than the one supplied by EPSON or if you connect your scanner through more than one hub. For Macintosh ® users: If you connect the scanner before installing...

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8 Setting Up Your Scanner If You’re Running Windows 98 . . . You may be asked to insert your Windows 98 operating system CD-ROM during the scanner installation. Please have this CD-ROM handy, in case it is needed. If you don’t have your Windows...

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Setting Up Your Scanner 9 5. Browse to the \TWAIN 5\Win98 folder on the CD-ROM, then click OK . 6. When you return to the Add New Hardware Wizard, click Next . 7. Windows finds the driver for your scanner and you see this screen: Click Next ....

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10 Setting Up Your Scanner 9. After the scanner software installation is complete, the Screen Calibration utility automatically starts. For the best results from an EPSON ink jet printer, leave the default setting of 1.8. If you are using a differ...

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Setting Up Your Scanner 11 If You’re Running Windows Millennium Edition . . . 1. Make sure your scanner is plugged into a power source and connected to your computer; then turn on your computer. The Add New Hardware Wizard screen appears. 2. In...

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12 Setting Up Your Scanner 6. When you return to the Add New Hardware Wizard, click Next . 7. Windows finds the driver for your scanner and you see this screen: Click Next . 8. After the scanner software installation is complete, the Screen Cali...

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Setting Up Your Scanner 13 10. Click Finish to exit the Add New Hardware Wizard. 11. Now you can install the rest of your software (see page 19) and view your electronic manuals (see page 23). If You’re Running Windows 2000 . . . 1. Make sure ...

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14 Setting Up Your Scanner 4. Uncheck the Floppy disk drives and CD-ROM drive options and check Specify a location . Then click Next . 5. Click Browse . 6. Browse to the \TWAIN 5\WIN2000 folder on the CD-ROM drive; then click Open . 7. Cl...

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Setting Up Your Scanner 15 8. Then click Next . 9. When this screen appears, click Yes . 10. After the scanner software installation is complete, the Screen Calibration utility automatically starts. For the best results from an EPSON ink jet print...

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16 Setting Up Your Scanner 12. Click Finish to exit the Found New Hardware Wizard. 13. If you see this screen, click Yes to restart your computer. 14. Now you can install the rest of your software (see page 19) and view your electronic manual...

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Setting Up Your Scanner 17 If You’re Using a Macintosh . . . Before installing any software, check the Apple ® web site for any updates to your operating system. 1. Make sure your scanner is plugged into a power source and connected to the comp...

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18 Setting Up Your Scanner 6. When the EPSON TWAIN 5 Installer screen appears, click Install for the default installation. 7. When the scanner software installation is complete, you see this screen: Click Restart . The Screen Calibration uti...

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Setting Up Your Scanner 19 Install the Scanner Software and Bonus Software Now that you’ve installed EPSON TWAIN, you’re ready to install the rest of the software on the CD-ROM. Before you begin, make sure any virus protection programs are tur...

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20 Setting Up Your Scanner 4. Click Scanner Software . The Scanner Software screen appears. 5. Click EPSON Smart Panel . 6. Click the Install button and follow the instructions on the screen to install EPSON Smart Panel. 7. When the installati...

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Setting Up Your Scanner 21 13. Click the application name for the program you want to install (the example shown is for EPSON Software ™ Film Factory ™ ). 14. The install screen appears for the application you selected. Click the Install b...

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22 Setting Up Your Scanner Install Adobe PhotoDeluxe Adobe PhotoDeluxe is included on a separate CD-ROM. Follow these steps to install PhotoDeluxe. Windows 1. Insert the PhotoDeluxe CD-ROM in your CD-ROM or DVD drive. 2. Double-click My Computer ,...

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Setting Up Your Scanner 23 Viewing Your Electronic Manuals You always have easy access to your electronic manuals—just go to the Main Menu screen on your scanner software CD-ROM and click Electronic Documentation . Viewing Your HTML Reference ...

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24 Setting Up Your Scanner 3. The Main Menu appears. Click Electronic Documentation . 4. At the next screen, click View Reference Guide . 5. You see this screen: You can either view the guide from the CD-ROM ( View Reference Guide ) or copy it ...

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Setting Up Your Scanner 25 When you first open the Reference Guide, you see this screen: If you see an icon in place of a graphic when viewing your Reference Guide in Netscape Navigator, click the Reload button to load the graphic. Viewing Your EP...

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26 Setting Up Your Scanner For guidelines on viewing your electronic manuals using Acrobat Reader, see “Navigating a PDF Manual” below. Your Bonus software may also include electronic manuals in PDF format. After installing the software, check...

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27 Scanning from Start to Finish Scanning with the EPSON Perfection 1240U lets you turn pictures and text into digital files on your computer just by pressing the ] Start, t Copy, or s Scan button on your scanner. You can use the buttons i...

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28 Scanning from Start to Finish Using the Scanner Buttons The scanner’s ] Start, t Copy, and s Scan buttons let you perform one-touch scanning with EPSON Smart Panel and assigned applications. With one-touch scanning, you can load a ...

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Scanning from Start to Finish 29 Using EPSON Smart Panel Follow these steps to use EPSON Smart Panel to scan your document or photo: 1. Place your original document face down on the document table, as described on page 27. 2. Do one of the followin...

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30 Scanning from Start to Finish 3. Click the icon for your desired scanning application. The window for that application appears and lets you adjust settings for your scan. Follow the on-screen steps for each application. If you select Copy or Pho...

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Scanning from Start to Finish 31 2. Open EPSON Smart Panel, if it isn’t already open. 3. From the pull-down menu in the bottom left, select Scan to OCR. The ] Start button icon appears next to Scan to OCR. 4. Click the Scan to OCR icon. The...

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32 Scanning from Start to Finish 7. Click Scan . The scanner scans your document and you see the Recognize screen. ■ Select a language for the documents that you’ll be scanning. ■ Select the OCR engine that you want to use to recognize and...

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Scanning from Start to Finish 33 8. Click Recognize . The OCR engine recognizes the text. Then you see a screen that lets you choose how you want to save or open the text. 9. To save your documents without opening them, click Save . Enter a name a...

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34 Scanning from Start to Finish Scanning a Document to E-mail You can scan photos or documents and then attach the resulting files to an e-mail message. Follow these steps to scan to e-mail: 1. Open the EPSON Smart Panel: In Windows, click the S...

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Scanning from Start to Finish 35 Scanning and Copying This example explains how to scan and print a document using the t Copy button, EPSON Smart Panel’s Copy utility, and an EPSON ink jet printer. 1. Make sure your printer is turned on and pap...

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36 Scanning from Start to Finish Scanning for Creativity This example explains how to scan a photograph using the Scan button, EPSON Smart Panel’s Scan for Creativity, and PhotoDeluxe. If you haven’t already installed PhotoDeluxe, see page 22 f...

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Scanning from Start to Finish 37 Scanning with EPSON TWAIN Scans are performed from within a host application—the application into which you plan to import the scanned image or document, such as Adobe PhotoDeluxe or other TWAIN-compliant program....

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38 Scanning from Start to Finish 3. Make sure EPSON TWAIN 5 is highlighted and click Select or OK . Using EPSON TWAIN Once EPSON TWAIN 5 is selected, you can start scanning from your application. Follow these steps to make manual settings in E...

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Scanning from Start to Finish 39 You see the following window: 3. Click Manual Mode . The EPSON TWAIN 5 window opens: 4. Select the type of image (such as Color Photo or Line Art ) and final output destination (such as Screen/Web or Laser Pri...

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40 Scanning from Start to Finish 5. Click the Preview icon to preview your scan. You see a preview of your scan in the preview area on the right side of your screen. 6. Click the Scan button to scan your image. The indicator light on the top of...

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Scanning from Start to Finish 41 Selecting TWAIN Settings The illustration below shows the different settings you can adjust in the EPSON TWAIN window, and the preferred order you should adjust them in. Detailed descriptions are given in your elec...

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42 Scanning from Start to Finish Tips for Getting the Best Scan Getting the best scan possible depends on several factors, including the quality of your original and the resolution you select. The better your original is, the better your scan will ...

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Scanning from Start to Finish 43 Selecting Resolution Resolution refers to how many dots per inch (dpi) or dots per centimeter (dpcm) your image contains. The best resolution for a scanned image depends on the type of image you’re scanning and yo...

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44 Scanning from Start to Finish Scanning Something That Doesn’t Fit Under the Document Cover The self-adjusting scanner cover allows you to place thick documents on the document table glass without removing the cover. If your document is too t...

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45 Using the Transparency Unit This section includes basic information on installing and using the transparency unit (B813172) for the EPSON Perfection 1240U. The transparency unit, also referred to as the film adapter, lets you scan negative or po...

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46 Using the Transparency Unit 4. Place the transparency unit on the document table glass so that the hinges face the rear of the scanner and it fits on the document table glass. 5. Connect the transparency unit connector (the arrow on the connec...

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Using the Transparency Unit 47 You can load transparencies in the film holders or you can place them directly on the document table, as described in the following sections. Three film holders are included with the transparency unit. To place film in...

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48 Using the Transparency Unit Loading Brownie Size Film Brownie size film is 2.4 × 3.5 inches (6 × 9 cm). Insert the film in the Brownie size film holder, base side facing down. Then place the film holder on the document table. Align the upper l...

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Using the Transparency Unit 49 Loading Slides and Film Directly on the Document Table Hold the film by the edges or use gloves. Touching the film surface with bare hands can leave fingerprints or other marks on the film. You can scan slides and fil...

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50 Using the Transparency Unit 2. Load the slide or film with the base side down on the scanner’s document table in the transparency unit window, as shown below. 3. Close the transparency unit. Leave the narrow calibration window uncovered, other...

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Using the Transparency Unit 51 Selecting Settings In EPSON TWAIN, select TPU - neg. Film or TPU - pos. Film as the Document Source setting, depending on the type of film (35 mm film strips or slides) you are scanning. When previewing images of nega...

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52 Using the Transparency Unit Removing the Transparency Unit Follow these steps to remove the transparency unit: 1. Turn off the transparency unit. 2. Remove any film holders or film from the document table. 3. Unplug the transparency unit connector...

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53 Scanner Maintenance This section gives you basic maintenance instructions and tells you how to transport your scanner safely. Cleaning the Scanner To keep your scanner operating at its best, you should clean it periodically. Before cleaning, unp...

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54 Scanner Maintenance Transporting the Scanner When you transport the scanner a long distance or store it for an extended time, follow the steps below to secure the carriage. 1. Remove any optional equipment and replace the document cover. 2. Plug ...

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55 Problem Solving This chapter gives you the basics for diagnosing and solving scanner problems. For illustrations identifying the scanner parts, see the inside back cover of this manual. For more troubleshooting tips, see the “Troubleshooting”...

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56 Problem Solving The light indicates the status of the scanner. If an error occurs, the scanner stops operating and the light shows the type of error. Scanner light Light Color Status Slowly flashing Green The scanner is initializing or is busy sc...

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Problem Solving 57 Problems and Solutions If you’re having problems, this section answers some of the most common questions. Setup Problems Your system doesn’t recognize the scanner. ■ Make sure your scanner is plugged into a power source. I...

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58 Problem Solving ■ This may also be due to the power saving function (sleep mode); if the scanner doesn’t receive any commands after ten minutes, it turns off the lamp. The lamp comes back on when you scan. The scanner doesn’t scan. ■...

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Problem Solving 59 Software Problems You can’t open the EPSON TWAIN driver. ■ Check the cable connection. Also, make sure the scanner’s light is on. Try restarting your computer. ■ Check that your system recognizes your scanner. Check S...

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60 Problem Solving You need to reinstall EPSON TWAIN in Windows. You must first uninstall your scanner as described above. 1. Insert your scanner CD-ROM in your CD-ROM drive. 2. Double-click My Computer , then double-click the CD-ROM icon. Th...

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Problem Solving 61 Scanning Problems The file size is too big. Adjust your scan settings. Try selecting a lower resolution (dpi), or scan only part of the image. Your scanned image is faint or has gaps. ■ Check the brightness setting. Decrease...

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62 Problem Solving Your scanned image is blurred or distorted. ■ Check the position and condition of your document. Make sure the document is placed flat against the scanner’s document table glass. If only part of the image is blurred, part...

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Problem Solving 63 The edges of the document are not scanned. ■ Check the position of your source document. Adjust your document’s position so that the image is within the glass area. ■ The document table has non-readable areas around the ...

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64 Problem Solving ■ The dark area around film, such as the frame of the film holder, is perceived as white—altering the exposure of the scanning area and causing your scans to appear darker. Set the correct color by adjusting the marquee ...

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Problem Solving 65 ■ Because your monitor and printer use different technologies to represent colors, your printed colors cannot exactly match the colors you see on your monitor screen. Your software may not have sufficient color matching an...

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66 Problem Solving Lines appear in the scanned image when using the transparency unit. Dust in the transparency unit’s calibration window will result in a vertical line in the scanned image. Clean the scanner document glass, especially in the ...

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Problem Solving 67 Where To Get Help EPSON Technical Support EPSON provides technical assistance 24 hours a day through the electronic support services and automated telephone services listed in the following table: To speak to a technical support r...

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68 Problem Solving You can purchase genuine EPSON supplies and accessories from the EPSON Store at (800) 873-7766 or visit our web site at www.epsonstore.com (U.S. sales only). In Canada, please call (800) 873-7766 for dealer referral. If you need ...

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69 Requirements and Notices This chapter includes system requirements, safety instructions, and other important information about your EPSON Perfection 1240U. System Requirements The minimum system requirements for Windows and Macintosh are listed b...

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70 Requirements and Notices Macintosh You cannot use a serial interface to connect the scanner. ■ Available USB port or self-powered hub connection ■ Apple ® Macintosh computer (G3, G4, or iMac ™ ) with built-in USB port, running Mac ® OS ...

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Requirements and Notices 71 ■ If you are not going to use the scanner, be sure to unplug the AC adapter from the electrical outlet. ■ Be sure your AC power cord meets the relevant local safety standards. ■ Power-supply cords should be protected...

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72 Requirements and Notices E NERGY S TAR Compliance As an ENERGY STAR Partner, EPSON has determined that this product meets the ENERGY STAR guidelines for energy efficiency. The EPA ENERGY STAR office equipment program is a voluntary partnership...

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Requirements and Notices 73 Declaration of Conformity According to 47CFR, Part 2 and 15 for Class B Personal Computers and Peripherals; and/or CPU Boards and Power Supplies used with Class B Personal Computers: We: EPSON America, Inc. Located at: MS...

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74 Requirements and Notices part, the item replaced becomes EPSON property. The replacement unit may be new or refurbished to the Epson standard of quality, and at Epson’s option, the replacement may be another model of like kind and quality. Eps...

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75 Index Numerics 35 mm film, loading, 47 4 × 5 inch film, loading, 48 A Accessories, 45, 68 Adobe Acrobat Reader, 25 to 26 Adobe PhotoDeluxe, 36 Advanced settings, TWAIN, 38 to 41 B Base side, film, 47 Blurred image, 62 Brightness problems, 63 to 6...

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76 Index I Image quality problems, 61 to 66 Incorrect colors, 63 to 65 Initialization, 5 Installing scanner software, 7 to 18 scanner software and bonus software, 19 to 21 transparency unit, 45 to 46 L Lamp, fluorescent, 6, 57 Lid, 58 Light, scanner...

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Index 77 Service, 67 to 68 Setting tips, 42 Settings, software, 39, 41, 42 Setup problems, 57 Slides, loading, 49 to 50 Smart Panel copying, 35 documentation, 25 to 26 electronic manual, 25 to 26 overview, 29 to 30 scanning for creativity, 36 scannin...

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78 Index basics.book Page 78 Tuesday, October 24, 2000 9:53 AM ...