Various Scan Settings

Items for Specifying Scan Settings

This section describes the items for Scan Settings.

Scan Type

Select a scan type that is appropriate for your original.

❖[Black & White: Text]

Appropriate to increase OCR readability using an OCR-compliant application.

•[Dropout Colour]

You can select not to scan the following colours: [Chromatic Colour], [Red], [Green], [Blue]. When you select a colour to leave out of the scan, specify its level of coverage. There are five levels. Press [Narrow] to leave out colours that are closest to the specified colour. Press [Wide] to broaden the coverage of the specified colour and not scan those colours.

❖[B & W: Text / Line Art]

 

Standard black and white originals containing mainly characters. Creates

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scanned images suitable for printing.

❖[B & W: Text / Photo]

Originals containing a mixture of photographs, pictures and characters (two- value). Creates scanned images suitable for printing.

❖[Black & White: Photo]

Originals containing photographs and other pictures (two-value). Creates scanned images suitable for printing.

❖[Gray Scale]

Originals containing photographs and other pictures (multi-value). Creates scanned images suitable for displaying on a computer screen.

❖[Full Colour: Text / Photo]

Originals for colour printing mainly consisting of characters.

❖[Full Colour: Glossy Photo]

Originals of silver salt photographs and other colour pictures.

❖[Auto Colour Select]

Scans originals by automatically judging the colours of the originals.

Note

❒[Dropout Colour] can be set when [Black & White: Text] is selected for [Scan Type].

❒If [Auto Colour Select] is selected, the machine may fail to correctly judge col- ours depending on the scanning condition or the contents of originals.

❒IF [High Compression PDF] is selected as the file type, you can select only [Gray Scale], [Full Colour: Text / Photo], or [Full Colour: Glossy Photo] for Scan Type.

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