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:

Image Type

Resolution

Scan Type

 

 

 

 

Photo

Select for scanning photo images.

300 x 300 dpi

24-bit color

 

 

 

 

Web

Select for attaching the scanned

100 x 100 dpi

24-bit color

 

image to web pages.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Text

Select for scanning text

200 x 200 dpi

Black & White

 

documents.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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.

Resolution

Black & White /

256 color

True Gray /

 

 

Gray

 

24 bit color

 

 

(Error Diffusion)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

 

 

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