User manual MICROTEK SCANING WITH SW5 STANDARD CONTROL PANEL

[. . . ] Many drivers, such as the keyboard driver, come with the operating system. For other devices, you may need to load a new driver when you connect the device to your computer. In DOS systems, drivers are files with a. SYS extension. In Windows environments, drivers often have a. DRV extension. [. . . ] You can Re-size the scan frame by pointing at any side of the scan frame. Then you simple drag the pointer horizontally or vertically until you have achieved the desired selection or adjustment of width and height of the scan frame. You can also drag the scan frame diagonally by pointing at the corners and when pointing within the scan frame a 4 way arrow will appear allowing to move the entire scan frame to a different image selection without changing the original size of the scan frame. Click To Prescan and preview scan material. When clicking on the Preview button the scanner carriage glides across the entire length of the glass bed and displays a rough draft preview of the scanned image or documents. Click to perform final scan and select a destination for the scanned image. Once you have selected your destination such as (Adobe PhotoShop, PhotoImapact, and etc), then the scanner will only transfer the image surrounded by the scan frame Scan to ­ Allow the user to scan into a specified folder. Once the document or Image has been scanned the scanner user will have the option to name his file and save it to the specified folder which, then the user will be able to retrieve the saved file in the future by any Image editing software. Copy ­ Selecting the copy button will prompt you to send the scanned output to your printer for printing. Basically you will be using your scanner a (photo copier). A couple of advantages to this proposition are that you can copy a color image and print in color not to mention the amount of space, money, time and maintenance that is required to keep a copy machine. E-mail ­ When you select the email option, your e-mail editor will be invoked. The output file or image will be attached automatically to your e-mail editor. Using the e-mail option saves time by skipping many steps that are needed in order to attach an image or document to be e-mailed. Advanced ­ Click this button to switch to advanced control interface. Scanner Information ­ Click this button to switch to scanner information window. Help ­ Click this button for help and tutorials Close Button ­ Click here when you are finished with your scan and want to edit your image in your image editing software. Clicking on the Original button will display a menu from which you have to select the appropriate category of your scan material. This will help ScanWizard 5 Standard determine the best in-house scanning parameters to accommodate your original. Clicking on the Scan Type button allows you to select into what image output category you wish to convert your original scan material. When clicking on the Purpose button a menu displays allowing you to select the intended usage of the output image resolution. Different values of image resolution are provided for different output applications. The higher the resolution, the bigger is the memory size required. When clicking the Scale Output button, a menu displays which will let you select (in % scale), the desired image output size. Clicking on the Adjust button will display a menu showing the ScanWizard 5 Image correction tool Panel. Adjust image appearance by dragging the button of each tool along its grooves. Observe the live update-taking place with the preview image as you reposition each button. Click outside the image correction tool to exit the panel, or press the Enter key. If you click the Reset button, it will set all the previously set custom settings back to the original Default. Click the reset button only if you are sure you want to start setting the different settings from scratch or if you intend to use the default settings. Clicking the preferences button will display a dialog box to set up scanning and repaint ScanWizard 5 Standard Window. Look at the two examples below. To exit the ScanWizard 5 Standard control panel interface simply click on the close button on the upper right hand corner with a picture of an X in the middle of the button. Example 1: Default Color Settings (SKY) of ScanWizard 5 ­ Standard Control Panel Example 2: This is the new color setting (SPRUCE) of Microtek ScanWizard 5 ­ Standard Control Panel. Producing a raw scan using Standard Control Panel Interface Previewing your original Image. Placing the reflective, positive and negative materials on the scanner's glass bed. Notice how the scan material can easily be aligned along the edges of the scanner's glass bed. Magnifying Your Preview Image. ScanWizard 5 allows as much as four times the size of your original preview image. The Zoom Scale bar (located at the right side of your preview image) is provided to easily accomplish zooming of your preview image. [. . . ] The Image Information window then appears, listing all the current settings for your output image. If you have not made any adjustment, the default settings will display. Drag this corner to resize preview window Status bar showing summary settings for output image Click icon to display detailed info box (right) Reset and Revert to Default Settings If you want to abandon the adjustments you have just made, you can easily revert to ScanWizard 5-Standard default settings and start all over again. All changes you have made in the menus and control panels under Original, Scan Type, Purpose, Scale Output, and Advance buttons are then reset back to ScanWizard 5- Standard defaults Click on Preview to preview your image. Crop your image using the Scan Frame tool. Click on "Scan" to scan the image. [. . . ]