Symptom

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Remedy

 

 

 

 

 

 

When the document is

Are the Document holding pad and

Clean the dirty locations as instructed in the

scanned in Black &

the Document bed of the scanner

Operator's Guide "2. Daily Care".

White mode, the image

clean?

 

generated becomes

 

 

Have you tried to adjust the set-

Adjust the Threshold and/or Brightness.

black.

tings of the scanner driver (Thresh-

 

 

 

 

old or Brightness)?

 

 

 

 

 

Did you scan a document so thin

Place a piece of white paper behind the

 

that the contents of the backside

document and scan again.

 

can be seen through?

- When there are any contents such as

 

 

characters on the backside of the docu-

 

 

ment, they may be seen through and

 

 

appear in the scanned.

 

 

- When using "Automatic Size and Skew

 

 

detection", place a piece of white paper

 

 

of the same size as the document

 

 

behind the document.

 

 

 

Automatic paper size

Are the Document holding pad and

Clean the dirty locations as instructed in the

detection is failed.

the Document bed of the scanner

Operator's Guide "2. Daily Care".

 

clean?

 

 

Did you scan with the document

Close the document cover and scan it

 

cover closed?

again.

 

 

 

 

Is the document rectangular or

If the document is other than rectangular or

 

square in shape?

square, the scanner may fail to detect the

 

 

size correctly.

 

 

Specify the area to scan in the driver set-

 

 

ting window manually and scan it again.

 

 

 

 

Did you scan a document with any

If the corner is folded, unfold it.

 

corner folded?

 

 

Did you scan a document with

If the document has dark-colored edge(s),

 

dark-colored edge(s)?

the scanner may fail to detect the size cor-

 

 

rectly.

 

 

Specify the area to scan in the driver set-

 

 

ting window manually and scan it again.

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