EPSON Perfection 1200

Selecting a Driver and Settings

When you select EPSON TWAIN 4 as your scanner source, you see the EPSON TWAIN window. This is the Advanced window in Windows (the Macintosh steps are the same); there is also an Easy window with just the basic settings.

1Select the basic settings: Document Source Image Type Destination

3Automatically set the scan area for your image using Auto Locate

4Size or scale the image (be sure to increase the Resolution if you increase the size or scale)

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Preview your image

 

 

 

 

 

5 Customize your

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Settings, select your

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

preview Configuration,

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

and use color management

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

6 Scan the image into your

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

application

 

 

 

 

 

 

7 Close the driver

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Here are some recommended settings for different types of scans.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Recommended bundled

 

 

 

 

Scanning resolution for

Image type

application

 

Recommended Image Type

printing 1, 2

Photograph

PhotoDeluxe

 

Color Photo

300 dpi

 

 

 

 

 

Small photograph to be enlarged

PhotoDeluxe

 

Color Photo

300 dpi to 2400 dpi

 

 

 

 

 

Magazine

PhotoDeluxe

 

Color Photo

300 dpi

 

 

 

 

 

Newspaper (text only)

PageManager

 

OCR

400 dpi

 

 

 

 

 

Text for OCR

PageManager

 

OCR

400 dpi

 

 

 

 

 

Text with images

PageManager

 

Copy & Fax

400 dpi

 

 

 

 

 

Line art

PhotoDeluxe

 

Line Art

300 to 2400 dpi

 

 

 

 

 

35 mm film (negative)

PhotoDeluxe

 

TPU for neg.Film

300 to 2400 dpi

 

 

 

 

 

4 x 5 or Brownie film (negative)

PhotoDeluxe

 

TPU for neg.Film

300 to 2400 dpi

 

 

 

 

 

35 mm slide or 4 x 5 transparency

PhotoDeluxe

 

TPU for pos.Film

300 to 2400 dpi

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1If your final output is for on-screen viewing (for example, on a web page), select 72 dpi for your resolution.

2If you are enlarging your image, you must manually increase the resolution (dpi) proportionally to maintain the resolution of your original.

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