User manual MICROTEK SCANMAKER I800 - Reference Guide

ScanWizard 5 QUICK REFERENCE GUIDE Preview Window (Standard Control Panel) Windows version 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. Switches to the Advanced Control Panel. 5. Scanner info, power-save, and JPEG compression control (if applicable). 6. Online help and Tutorial Guide for a step-by-step scanning operation. 7. Minimizes ScanWizard 5 (Windows only) 8. Exits ScanWizard 5. 9. Type of scan material (Photo, Text, Document, .ilm, etc.). 10. Output image type (True color, Web color, Gray, or B&W). 11. Image output resolution presets for Onscreen Viewing, Printing, etc., plus custom resolution input. Mac OS 9.x version 12. Output size or ratio (50%, 75%, 100%, 150%, or 200%). 13. Image enhancement tools (Brightness, Contrast, Sharpness, or Saturation). 14. Cancel/Revert to default settings. 15. Preferences menu options (Scanning functions and to customize the appearance of your Standard Control Panel). 16. Drag this corner to resize the preview window. 17. Zoom out (-), shrinks preview image. 18. Pans or moves around a magnified area. 19. Shows current settings and becomes a Progress bar during scanning. 20. Shows detailed settings and status of current scan job. 21. Resizes preview image. 22. Preview image enclosed in a Scan .rame. Copyright © 2003 Microtek International, Inc. http://www.microtek.com I49-003583 A, June 2003 Preview Window (Advanced Control Panel only) Windows version 1. The Menu bar provides 5 menus: Scanner Menu (set up scanner-to-host interface); View Menu (control image and view/hide options); Preferences Menu (customize software); Correction Menu (adjust/correct image); and Help Menu (access online help). 2. Unit of measurement for rulers. Options include inch, cm, mm, point, pixel, and pica. 3. The Overview button previews the image(s) on your scanner bed. 4. The Prescan button shows a higher resolution image of the area selected by the Scan .rame tool. 5. The Toolbar selects actions to be performed on the overview or prescan image. Scan .rame: Lets you select a scan frame area Pan: Scrolls through an overview or prescan image Zoom: Click to enlarge; Shift or Option+Click to shrink Black Point tool: Click to set black reference point. White Point tool: Click to set white reference point. Mac OS 9.x version (e.g., launched from the Start menu or the ScanWizard 5 icon on the desktop). Click the Scan To button to active the options menu: Scan to saves the scanned image into a file; Copy sends the output to a printer; E-mail attaches the output to an E-mail message; OCR converts the text into an editable format; or To Web uploads the output to a photo-sharing website. 7. The Scan Material icon indicates the type of the current scan material. Reflective Positive film Negative film 8. The Switch button takes you back to the Standard Control Panel. 9. .or Windows, the Minimize button lets you minimize the Advanced Control Panel window. The same is achieved with the Shrink button for the Macintosh. 10. The Inactive button is a non-performing feature in ScanWizard 5 but is included in the interface due to the nature of Windows. 11. .or Windows, the Close button is used to exit ScanWizard 5. .or Macintosh, select Quit from the .ile menu to exit ScanWizard 5. 12. The Status bar gives useful tips relating to the selected tool in the Toolbar. 13. Drag this corner to resize your Preview window. 2 6. The Scan/Scan to button performs the final scan, and delivers the scanned image to your application program. The Scan button is available only when ScanWizard 5 is launched from an imageediting program (e.g., Photoshop Elements or Photoshop LE). The Scan To button is available when ScanWizard 5 is launched as a stand-alone program The Settings Window 1 (Advanced Control Panel only) Windows version 1. The Scan Job/Job box shows the current scan job as highlighted in the Scan Job 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 colors to reproduce up to 16.7 million colors onscreen. The 48-bit option is used for professional scanners. Gray Scale/Gray Scale (16-bit): Grayscale images use shades of gray to simulate gradations of color. The 16-bit option is used for professional scanners. 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. .ast JPEG Color: This is a compressed true color image which takes up less disk space. The JPEG image type is for Microtek's JPEG-implemented scanners only. 3. The Resolution/Res box lets you specify the resolution level for the final scan. 4. The Scan .rame settings, Scaling, and Output settings control your image dimensions. 3 Mac OS 9.x version 5. The Scan .rame options provide controls relating to the scan frame and the output image size. 6. Choose your Unit of measurement from the available options; e.g., inch, cm, mm, etc. 7. 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. 8. Optional settings for Enable Digital ICE for Photo Prints or .ast JPEG Quality/Image Quality, depending on the scanner you are using. If your scanner does not implement Digital ICE or JPEG compression, these options will not appear in this area. Enable Digital ICE for Photo Prints: This lets you enable Digital ICE in ICE-implemented scanners to automatically remove dust, scratches, cracks, creases, folds, and other defects of the scanned image. .ast JPEG Quality/Image Quality: This lets you choose the JPEG image compression ratio for JPEGimplemented scanners. If the JPEG image type is not selected, this option will not appear. To choose the .ast JPEG format in the Advanced Control Panel: a) Choose .ast JPEG Color at the Type selection. b) Choose the .ast JPEG Quality/Image Quality mode with the JPEG compression ratio. To choose the .ast JPEG format in the Standard Control Panel: a) In the Preview window, choose .ast JPEG Color at the Scan Type selection. b) In the Toolbar, click on the Scanner icon to display the Scanner Control dialog box. Then set the JPEG compression ratio. The Advanced Image Correction Tools (Advanced Control Panel only) 1. The White/Black Point 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 values 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. Brightness is the balance of the light and dark shades in the image, while 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 .ilter tool lets you apply or create special effects to your image. This tool is disabled when your image type is set to billions of colors, 1,000 shades of gray, line art and halftone. 6. The Descreen tool lets you remove moiré patterns in images. A 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 transparency). The Information Window (Advanced Control Panel only) The Scan Job Window (Advanced Control Panel only) Windows version 1 Windows version 1. The Zoom Level Display shows and lets you select magnification levels. 2. The Mouse Cursor Position displays the position of the mouse cursor on the x/y axis of the image. 3. The Color Meter Options let you view color information (in values or percentages), and let you define the size of the sample area. Mac OS 9.x version 4. The Color Output Meter displays the output values of a pixel at the specific x/y location. 5. The Sample Display Area shows a pixelated display of a specific x/y location in the image. The size of the sampling area depends on the selection made in the Color Meter Options. Mac OS 9.x version 1. Check mark indicates the job will be scanned when you click the Scan (or Scan to, Copy, E-mail, OCR, or To Web) button. "P" indicates job has been prescaned. 2. The highlighted scan job is the Current scan job. 3. .unction buttons (Duplicate, New, Delete, Check, Load/Save). 4 4. [Windows only] One-pass Scan for Multiple Jobs enables the scanner to perform scanning in a single pass for all the selected scan jobs. 5. [Windows only] Multiple Auto-crop for EZ-Lock .ilm Holder enables the scanner to auto-crop films loaded in the EZLock .ilm Holder.