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Original Type
You can set the original document type in order to enhance the quality of a document being scanned.
Press Scan > Scan to Email (Or Scan to Server) > the Image tab > Original Type. Select the appropriate option and press OK.
•Text: For originals that have text or line art.
•Text/Photo: For originals that have both text and photographs together.
•Photo: For originals that are continuous tone photographs.
Color Mode
Use this option to scan the original in Mono, Gray or Color mode.
Press Scan > Scan to Email (Or Scan to Server) > the Image tab > Color Mode. Select the appropriate option and press OK.
•Color: Uses color to display an image. 24 bits per pixel, 8 bits for each RGB, is used for 1 pixel.
•Gray: Uses the black gradation to display an image. 8 bits per pixel.
•Mono: Displays an image in black and white. 1 bit per pixel.
The file format JPEG cannot be selected if Mono has been selected for Color Mode.
Darkness
You can select the degree of darkness of the scanned output. If your original document is light or faded, press the right arrow to make the output darker.
Press Scan > Scan to Email (Or Scan to Server) > the Image tab > Darkness. Press right arrow to enhance the darkness degree then, press OK.
Erase Background
You can lighten, reduce or deletes the dark background from scanning colored paper or newspaper originals.
Press Scan > Scan to Email (Or Scan to Server) > the Image tab > Erase Background. Select the appropriate option and press OK.
•Off: Disables this feature.
•Auto: Optimizes the background.
•Enhance: The higher the number is, the more vivid the background is.
•Erase: The higher the number is, the lighter the background is.
Scan to Edge
You can set the machine to scan full size of a page as it is. Usually, the machine scans a page except edges, which means the margin, especially when you do the copy job with certain sized paper in the tray. But if you scan and sent it right away via the network, as the file, the machine does not need to exclude the edges from the originals.
Press Scan > Scan to Email (Or Scan to Server) > the Image tab > Scan to Edge. Select On and press OK.
Quality
You can use this option to produce a high quality document. Higher quality you select a larger file size you get.
Press Scan > Scan to Email (Or Scan to Server) > the Output tab > Quality.
When you set Color Mode to Mono, the Quality option is grayed out.