User manual AVISION AV261C

[. . . ] This equipment generates, uses, and can radiate radio frequency energy and, if not installed and used in accordance with the instructions, may cause harmful interference to radio communication. However, there is no guarantee that interference will not occur in a particular installation. If this equipment does cause harmful interference to radio or television reception, which can be determined by turning the equipment off and on, the user is encouraged to try to correct the interference by one or more of the following measures: * Reorient or relocate the receiving antenna. * Increase the separation between the equipment and receiver. [. . . ] Document Figure 2. 3 Document Placement 2-4 3. Scanner Driver Installation To run at optimum speed, the AV261C color image scanner is recommended to have the following minimum requirements: * IBM compatible PC 386/486, Pentium or later; * Microsoft Windows 3. 1, Windows 95, Windows NT; * One printer port available (enhanced parallel port recommended); * 20 Megabytes of available hard disk space for installation; * 8 Megabytes of RAM (16 Megabytes or higher recommended); * A video graphics array (VGA) monitor; * A Microsoft Windows-compatible pointing device (e. g. , mouse); * A CD ROM drive. 3. 1 to-Installation Program Installation procedures of AV261C Scanner driver with Avision Auto-installation Program are as follows: 1. Insert AV261C CD into your CD ROM drive. 3. From the File Menu, choose RUN, type d:\driver\AV261C. exe (d represents the letter for your current CD ROM drive). Click O. K. 3-1 In Windows 95 or Windows NT 3. Press the Start button, choose RUN, type d:\driver\AV261C. exe (d: the CD ROM drive in use), and then click O. K. Follow the on-screen instructions to complete the installation. Fig. 3. 2 3-2 3. 2 Uninstall the Scanner You can uninstall the scanner by selecting Start. . . . Programs. . . . Avision Scanner AV261C and double clicking on the Uninstall command from the Avision Scanner AV261C. 3-3 4. Scanner Operation & Document Printing Scanning Images (TWAIN) 1. 7. Open your application and choose Select Source from the File menu. If the Select Source menu options are not available from the File menu, see the user guide of your application to learn how the TWAIN link is used. A dialog box appears containing the different TWAIN sources that you can choose from to bring an image into your application. When you have used the dialog box to select a different source, you will need to select AV261C as the source again before you can reuse the AV261C scanner. Place the image to be scanned face down on the glass. AV261C TWAIN user interface will pop up on the screen. Click on the Preview or Scan button to get the image. 4-1 AV261C TWAIN user interface: 4-2 4. 1 Image Type AV261C provides five image types as explained in below: Line art Error Diffusion Scanning Source Halftone Gray Color Scanning Source Two scanning sources are provided- flatbed as well as transparency. Line art Line art presents the image in black and white only and there are no intermediate shades of gray in between. Halftone In addition to the black and white display, Halftone can present a somehow gray shade of image by using different size of dots. Error Diffusion While taking up but a minimum storage space, error diffusion gives good image texture and excellent image details. Gray (4096 levels gray scale) Gray presents a 4096 shades of gray in an image. 4-3 Color The 36 bits True Color presents 68. 7 billion colors and gives much more tonal range and details in a color image. 4-4 4. 2 Scanning Parameters & Image Control Resolution: The number of dpi (dots per inch) that AV261C uses for a scan. Usually the greater the number, the higher the resolution. Yet up to a certain level, the resolution will not be visually increased but the disk space will be increased. 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. [. . . ] Answer: If you have installed Works for Windows, it will install Window Printing System (WPS) in your WIN. INI file. This will take up the printer port time remarkably. You can remove the WPS from your WIN. INI file, as follows: 6-1 From: [MS Text Converters] MSWorksWin=Works for Windows 2. 0, C:\WINDOWS\MSAPPS\TEXTCONV\worksdos. cnv, wps Works for Dos 2. 0=Works for DOS 2. 0 MSAPPS\TEXTCONV\workswin. con, wps To: [MS Text Converters] MSWorksWin=Works for Windows 2. 0, C:\WINDOWS\MSAPPS\TEXTCONV\worksdos. cnv Works for DOS 2. 0=Works for DOS 2. 0, C:\WINDOWS\MSAPPS\TEXTCONV\workswin. con Question: The printer does not print the documents. Answer: Pass-through printing may pose a problem for some printers. [. . . ]