User manual MICROTEK SCANMAKER 8700 - Quick Reference

ScanWizard 5 for Mac OS X QUICK REFERENCE GUIDE Preview Window 21 22 23 1 (Standard Control Panel) 2 3 4 5 6 20 7 8 9 10 11 19 18 12 13 17 16 15 14 1. Prescans and previews the scan material. 2. Performs the final scan and selects a destination for the scanned image. 3. Zoom in (+), magnifies preview image. 4. Scanner info and power-save. 5. Switches to the Advanced Control Panel. 6. Type of scan material (Photo, Text, Document, Film, etc.). 7. Output image type (True color, Web color, Gray, or B&W). 8. Output resolution presets (on-screen viewing, printing, custom, etc.). 9. Output size or ratio (50%, 75%, 100%, 150%, or 200%). 10. Image enhancement tools (Brightness, Contrast, Sharpness, or Saturation). 11. Cancel/Revert to default settings. 12. Preferences menu options (Includes scanning functions and customizes the appearances of your Standard Control Panel). 13. Drag this corner to resize the preview window. 14. Zoom out (-), shrinks preview image. 15. Pans and moves around a magnified area. 16. Shows current settings and becomes a Progress bar during scanning. 17. Shows detailed settings and status of current scan job. 18. Resizes preview image. 19. Preview image enclosed in a Scan Frame. 20. Lets you quit ScanWizard 5. 21. Sets document attributes for your printer. 22. Online help of ScanWizard 5. 23. Minimizes the preview window to the Dock. Copyright©2003 Microtek International, Inc. http://www.microtek.com I49-003478 A, January 2003 Preview Window 14 15 1 2 3 4 (Advanced Control Panel) 5 6 7 8 9 13 10 12 11 1. Unit of measurement for rulers. Options include inch, cm, mm, point, pixel, and pica. 2. The Menu bar provides 4 menus: Scanner Menu (set up scanner-to-host interface); View Menu (control image and view/hide options); Preferences Menu (customize software); and Correction Menu (adjust/correct image). 3. The Minimize and Maximize icons. Minimize: Minimizes the Preview window to the Dock. Maximize: Expands the Preview window to its full size. 4. The Scan Material pull-down menu lets you select the type of the current Scan Material. 5. The Overview button previews the image(s) on your scanner bed. 6. The Prescan button shows a higher-resolution image of the area selected by the Scan Frame tool. 7. The Scan To button performs the final scan, and delivers the scanned image to your application program. Click the Scan To button to show the pull-down menu: Scan To saves the scanned image to a file; Copy sends the output to a printer; E-mail attaches the output to an E-mail message. 8. The Toolbar selects actions to be performed on the overview or prescan image. 2 Scan Frame: Lets you select a scan frame area Pan: Pans or moves the hidden part of a zoomed-in image into view Zoom: Click to enlarge; Shift or Option+Click to shrink Dropper: Selects shadow/highlight values on a prescan image 9. The Switch button takes you back to the Standard Control Panel. 10. Drag this corner to resize your Preview window. 11. The Status bar gives useful tips relating to the selected tool in the Toolbar. 12. Handy buttons Click to flash High/Low value markers. Zoom in (+), enlarges preview image. Zoom out (-), shrinks preview image. Current image zoom size (100%). Resolution info (in pixels per inch) for overview and prescan image 13. Lets you exit ScanWizard 5"; accompanying windows (Setting window, Scan Job Queue window, and Info window) are closed as well. 14. Sets document attributes for your printer. 15. Online help of ScanWizard 5. Settings Window (Advanced Control Panel only) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 1. The Job box shows the current scan job as highlighted in the Scan Job Queue window. This job is also the currently selected image in the Preview window. 2. The Type box shows the image type of the current scan job. RGB Colors/RGB Colors (48-bit): RGB colors use three color channels R,G, B (red, green, blue) to reproduce lifelike colors. Gray Scale/Gray Scale (16-bit): Grayscale images use shades of gray to simulate gradations of color. Web/Internet Colors: This mode applies to images that are displayed on the Web or Internet. 256 Colors (Default/Custom): This mode has a single channel and uses a color lookup table containing up to 256 colors. The Default mode uses an Adaptive palette with Diffusion; the Custom mode gives you additional options. Line art: Line art images are made up of one bit of color (black or white) per pixel. This mode is useful for images consisting purely of black and white or of a single color, such as mechanical drawings and blueprints. B&W Diffusion: This is a single-bit black-and-white image dithered with error diffusion. 3. The Resolution box lets you specify the resolution level for the final scan. 4. Output resolution (in ppi or lpi). 5. Choose your Unit of measurement from the available options; e.g., inch, cm, mm, etc. 6. The Lock icon provides controls relating to the scan frame, frame size, and output size; parameters are used for controlling scan frame, frame size, output size, and scaling. 7. Image Orientation; i.e., rotated, mirrored, etc. 8. The Advanced Image Correction(AIC) controls let you adjust and enhance the image. The correction results are displayed in real time in the Preview window and in the AIC dialog box. 9. Resets any or all of the AIC settings to the default values. 3 Advanced Image Correction Tools (Advanced Control Panel only) 1 2 3 4 5 6 1. The White/Black Points tool lets you change the shadow and highlight points of an image. By using this tool, you can manipulate shades so that the Shadow point becomes the new darkest value and the Highlight point becomes the new lightest value. 2. The Tone Curve tool lets you control the gamma, which measures the intensity affecting the mid-level grays (midtones) of an image. Adjusting the gamma lets you change the values of the middle range of gray tones without dramatically altering the shadows and highlights. 3. The Brightness/Contrast tool changes the brightness and contrast of the entire image. Increasing the brightness makes all tones in the image lighter. Contrast is the range between the darkest and lightest shades in the image. 4. The Color Correction tool adjusts the hue or saturation of colors. This tool applies only to color images and is not available for use with grayscale or black-and-white images. Saturation refers to the intensity of a color. Hue is the aspect of color that distinguishes one color from another (whether it is red, green, or blue). 5. The Filter tool lets you apply or create special effects to your image. This tool is disabled when your image type is set to Line art or B&W Diffusion. 6. The Descreen tool lets you remove moiré patterns in images. The moiré is an undesirable pattern in printing that results from incorrect screen angles of overprinting halftones. Moirés usually result when you scan images taken directly from a magazine (instead of scanning a photographic original or a transparency). Information Window (Advanced Control Panel only) Scan Job Queue Window (Advanced Control Panel only) 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 5 1. The Mouse Cursor 3. The Color Output Meter Position displays the displays the output position of the mouse values of the pixel at the cursor on the x/y axis of specific the image. x/y location. 2. The Color Meter Options 4. The Sample Display Area let you browse color shows a pixel-by-pixel information (in values or display of the specific x/ percentages), and let y location of the pointer. you define the size of The size of the sampling the sample area. area depends on the selection made in the Color Meter Options. 1. Check marks indicate the jobs to be scanned when you click the Scan To, Copy, or E-mail button. 2. The Green indicator flashes when scanning is in progress. 3. A thumbnail image indicates job has been prescanned. 4. The highlighted scan job is the Current scan job. 5. Function buttons (Select All, Check, New, Duplicate, Delete, and Manager). 4