5.Click the arrow in the Auto Exposure Type list and select your original document type; either Document or Photo.

6.Click the arrow to open the Image Type list and select the detailed image type you are scanning:

Image Type setting

Type of image you are scanning

 

 

48-bit Color

Color photo that you may want to modify in a

 

48-bit image-editing program

 

 

24-bit Color

Color photo

 

 

Color Smoothing

Color graphics, such as a chart or graph

 

 

16-bit Grayscale

Black-and-white photo with many shades of

 

gray

 

 

8-bit Grayscale

Black-and-white photo with just a few shades

 

of gray

 

 

Black & White

Document with black text and/or line art

 

 

7.Click the arrow next to the Resolution list and select the number of dots per inch at which you want to scan. See the table below for some guidelines:

What you will do with the

Suggested scan resolution

scanned image

 

 

 

Send via e-mail, upload to web,

96 to 150 dpi

view only on the screen

 

 

 

Print, convert to editable text

300 dpi

(OCR)

 

 

 

Fax

200 dpi

 

 

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