HOW TO SCAN USING WINDOWS® 8 - 6

Settings in the Scanner window

Image Type

Select the image type of output from Photo, Web or Text.

Resolution and Scan Type will be altered for each default setting.

The default settings are:

Resolution

You can change the scanning resolution from the Resolution drop

down list. Higher resolutions take more memory and transfer time,

but can achieve a finer scanned image. The following table shows

the resolution you can choose and the available colors.

Image Type Resolution Scan Type
Photo Select for scanning photo images. 300 x 300 dpi 24-bit color
Web Select for attaching the scanned
image to web pages.
100 x 100 dpi 24-bit color
Text Select for scanning text
documents.
200 x 200 dpi Black & White
Resolution Black & White /
Gray
(Error Diffusion)
256 color True Gray /
24 bit color /
24 bit color (Fast)
100 × 100 dpi Yes Yes Yes
150 × 150 dpi Yes Yes Yes
200 × 200 dpi Yes Yes Yes
300 × 300 dpi Yes Yes Yes
400 × 400 dpi Yes Yes Yes
600 × 600 dpi Yes Yes Yes
1200 × 1200 dpi Yes No Yes
2400 × 2400 dpi Yes No Yes
4800 × 4800 dpi Yes No Yes
9600 × 9600 dpi Yes No Yes