User manual AVISION AV100P

[. . . ] Other brands and product names herein are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders. Copyright All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, transmitted, transcribed, stored in a retrieval system, or translated into any language or computer language, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, magnetic, optical, chemical, manual, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of Avision Inc. Material scanned by this product may be protected by governmental laws and other regulations, such as copyright laws, the customer is solely responsible for complying with all such laws and regulations. ii Warranty The information contained in this document is subject to change without notice. Avision makes no warranty of any kind with regard to this material, including, but not limited to, the implied warranties of fitness for a particular purpose. Avision shall not be liable for errors contained herein or for incidental or consequential damages in connection with the furnishing, performance, or use of this material. iii FCC Radio Frequency Interference Statement This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a class B digital device, pursuant to Part 15 of the FCC rules. [. . . ] This action is to make sure each device match with a unique SCSI ID number. If the ID# you select is duplicate with an existing SCSI device, then please select a different ID#. (See Figure 2-6) Note: The default SCSI ID number for Avision AV100P is 6. Usually ID# 0 is assigned to an internal hard disk drive, and ID# 7, to SCSI adapter or host. Figure 2-6 Adjust the SCSI ID setting 2-10 3. 3. 1 Scanner Driver Installation MAC Users The AV100P scanner must have the following minimum requirements to run at rated speed as recommended: * MAC II series; Quadra series, Perfoma series; Power Macintosh series or later recommended; * At least 20 M Bytes of free hard disk space; * A minimum of 8 M Bytes of system memory required; 16 M Bytes or higher recommended; * Mac compatible display card and monitor with at least 256 colors; thousands colors or million colors display card recommended; * System 7 or later. The installation procedures of Avision scanner driver are as follows: 1. It is highly recommended that to close the anti-virus program and exit all other applications currently running. Install on your computer the image-editing or scannerrelated application you want to use with the scanner, such as OmniPage, PhotoShop, etc. Insert "Avision PaperCom Supreme " into your disk drive. Read "Read Me First" for notice or information which you should be aware of. Double click on the "AV Kit 3. X. X Installer" icon. AV Kit 3. X. X Installer window will appear as Fig. Normally, the greater the dpi number, the higher the resolution and the image file size. Be aware that the greater resolution takes more time, memory and disk space, therefore, up to a certain degree of dpi, the resolution will not visually be improved, on the contrary, it makes your files more unmanageable. Figure 4-5 Resolution Control 4-7 4. 5 Image Control Brightness: Adjusts the lightness or darkness of an image. The higher the value, the brighter the image. Contrast: Adjusts the range between the darkest and the lightest shades in the image. The higher the contrast, the bigger the different gray scales. Adjusts the midtone of the image without losing details of the lightest and the darkest areas. Adjusts the highlight area of the image. Adjusts the darkest area of the image. Gamma: Highlight: Shadow: Auto Level Automatically adjusts the highlight and shadow areas of the scanned image to give it an optimal effect. 4-8 Invert: The invert command reverses the brightness and the color in the image. For color images, each pixel will be changed into its complementary color at the command of Invert. Color Match: Adjusts the color quality of the image so that it comes close to that of the original. This function uses default parameters to adjust the image. Sharpen: Sharpens the scanned image. selections under this item. Look for more Descreen: Eliminates the moire patterns commonly found in printed matter. 4-9 Before Descreen After Descreen 4-10 4. 6 Scanning Preview: Scan: Exit: Previews your image to allocate the area to be scanned. [. . . ] The "Install from hard disk provided by the hardware manufacturer" dialog box will be displayed. Press Browse button to assign your path. Type d:\DTCSCSI (d is the letter indicating your current CD-ROM drive). The unknown device statement will be displayed. [. . . ]