User manual VISIONEER 5600 INSTALLATION GUIDE

[. . . ] Visioneer OneTouch 5600 Scanner Installation Guide FOR WINDOWS COPYRIGHT INFORMATION Copyright © 2000 Visioneer, Inc. , a wholly owned subsidiary of Primax Electronics LTD. Reproduction, adaptation, or translation without prior written permission is prohibited, except as allowed under the copyright laws. The Visioneer brand name and logo are registered trademarks of Primax Electronics LTD. The PaperPort brand name and logo are registered trademarks of ScanSoft, Inc. [. . . ] If you want to select a configuration prior to scanning, click the option, Configure before Scan. When you press a scanner button, the Visioneer Scan Manager dialog box appears first and you can select a configuration before scanning. See "Scanning an Item Using the Twain Button" on page 27 for details. Select one of the Format and Page(s) options for the button. Now when you press the scanner button, it scans the image using the new configuration settings and displays the scanned image in the new destination application. Note: The Configuration dialog box is also available from the scanner icon on the Windows taskbar. Click the icon to see the scanner buttons panel. Click a button on the panel with the right mouse button. (Don't click with the left mouse button because clicking with the left mouse button starts scanning. ) The Configuration dialog box appears. CREATING NEW CONFIGURATIONS You cannot change settings such as brightness or contrast of the preset configurations. To scan with settings other than those offered by the preset configurations, you must first create a new configuration and then use it to scan. To create a new configuration click the New button. You can also click Copy to copy a preset configuration, change its settings, and then save it under a new configuration name. 19 VISIONEER ONETOUCH 5600 SCANNER INSTALLATION GUIDE ADJUSTING SCAN SETTINGS AND PAGE SETTINGS When scanning using a configuration that you created yourself, you can adjust that configuration's scan settings and page settings. For example, if the scanned image is too dark, you can adjust the brightness of the scan setting. Note: You cannot change the scan settings or page settings for any of the predefined scan configurations. You can only adjust settings for scan configurations that you create yourself. See the section above, "Creating New Configurations". To adjust the scan settings and page settings: 1. Press and hold down a button on the scanner. The selected tab on the dialog box corresponds to the button you pressed. You can click the other tabs for the other buttons. LEARNING ABOUT THE ONETOUCH BUTTONS 20 2. In the Select Configuration list, click the configuration that you want to adjust. For example, the following figure shows a configuration named Special Scan for Dark Print (which you would have created earlier). 3. [. . . ] The new setting is added to the list of "Scan Page For" options at the top of the dialog box. ADJUSTING THE BRIGHTNESS AND CONTRAST Sometimes an item is scanned with the brightness and contrast set to be too light or too dark. For example, a note written with a light pencil may need to be scanned darker to improve legibility. You can adjust the brightness and contrast at which grayscale and color items are scanned. You can also adjust the brightness for black-andwhite items. [. . . ]