Step 3—Open the Scan Window

The scanner is controlled from the Nikon Scan scan window.

1 Choose the application in which pictures will be displayed

After scanning, pictures can be displayed either in Nikon Scan or in a third-party application such as Adobe Photoshop. The application in which pictures will be displayed after scanning is referred to as the “host application.”

Application Platform
Description

Nikon Scan

Windows

Macintosh

Windows

Nikon Scan used as a “stand-alone” application to scan, process, print, and save images.

Nikon Scan used as a TWAIN source to control the scanner from a third-party application (application must support TWAIN). Images are scanned using Nikon Scan and processed, printed, and saved in the third-party application.

Third-party application

Macintosh

Nikon Scan plug-in used to control the scanner from a third-party application (application must support Adobe Photoshop 5.0 acquire plug-ins, and a copy of the Nikon Scan plug-in must be installed in the application’s plug-ins folder). Images are scanned using Nikon Scan and processed, printed, and saved in the third-party application.

2 Open the scan window

Application Platform

Description

Windows

Nikon Scan

used as “stand- alone”

application Macintosh (Mac OS X)

Macintosh

(Mac OS 9)

Third-party Windows application Macintosh

Click the Start button and select Nikon Scan 4 from the

programs list. (If a shortcut was created during installa- tion, you can also double-click the icon on the desktop.)

Open the Applications : Nikon Software : Nikon Scan 4 folder on the start-up disk and double-click the icon. (If Nikon Scan was added

to the Dock during installation, you can also click the icon in the Dock.)

Open the Nikon Software : Nikon Scan 4 folder in the folder selected at installation (the default folder is the Applications folder on the start-up disk) and double-click the icon. (If an alias was created during instal- lation, you can also double-click the icon on the desktop.)

Select Nikon Scan from the application’s list of “Acquire” or “Import” sources. For more information, see the documentation provided with the application.

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