User manual AVISION AV210C2

[. . . ] IBM, PC, AT, XT are registered trademarks of International Business Machines Corp. Other brands and product names herein are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders. No part of this publication may be reproduced, transmitted, transcribed, stored in a retrieval system, or translated into any language or computer language, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, magnetic, optical, chemical, manual, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of Avision Inc. Material scanned by this product may be protected by governmental laws and other regulations, such as copyright laws, the customer is solely responsible for complying with all such laws and regulations. [. . . ] Document(s) should be free of curl, wrinkle, tears, wet ink, or punch holes. Document(s) should be free of staples, paper clips, paper sticky notes. 3-1 3. 1. 2 Placing Your Document in the ADF Paper Tray Fanning Your Document Standard paper size should feed easily through the scanner. To avoid occasional paper jam when automatically feeding multiple documents, loosen the paper before loading. Document feeding Place your document with the text face down on the ADF Paper Tray. Please note that the ADF Paper Tray can hold up to 50-page document at a time. Your Document (Face Down) Paper Slider 3-2 User's Manual 3. 2 Scanning with Image Editing Software The scanner driver is not a stand-alone program, it has to be started from within a TWAIN-compliant or plug-in software application and then the scanner driver is able to scan and load the image to your computer. The command to start the scanner driver may vary due to different software applications. Start a TWAIN compliant software application such as Roxio PhotoSuite 4 SE which is bundled in the CD. Click Get>Scanner (TWAIN). 3. Choose AV210C2 or AV220C2 as your scanning source. Allocate your scanned area and choose Scan button to scan the document. 3-3 7. Click Exit to return to the main screen and click Open Library and Photos at the upper-right corner to open your scanned image. 1 2 1. 5. 3 Preview Zoom View Scan Exit Photos 4 5 3-4 User's Manual 3. 2. 1 A Glance of the User Interface 7 8 9 10 11 1 2 3 4 5 6 1. Contrast Adjusts the range between the darkest and the lightest shades in the image. 1 2. 2 Decrease Brightness Normal Increase Brightness Decrease Contrast Normal Increase Contrast 4-5 4. 1. 5 Enlarging Previewed Image 1. 1 Before Zoom After Zoom 4-6 User's Manual 4. 1. 6 Inverting and Selecting Your Image 1. Invert The invert command reverses the brightness and the color in the image. For color images, each pixel will be changed into its complementary color at the command of Invert. 1 2 3 Before Invert After Invert 4-7 2. Mirror Function Reverse the right and left side of your image. Before Mirror After Mirror 3. Auto Select Image Automatically set the whole image as your scan area. (Or you may resize the area by "drag and drop" diagonally. ) 4-8 User's Manual 4. 1. 7 Enhancing Your Image 1. Descreen Eliminates the moire patterns* commonly found in printed matter. Sharpen Sharpen the scanned image. 1 2 34 Before Descreen After Descreen Before Sharpen After Sharpen *Moire pattern: An undesirable pattern in a color printing resulting from incorrect screen angle of overprinting halftone. 4-9 3. Color Adjustment Adjusts the color quality of the image so that it comes close to the original. This function uses default parameters to adjust the image. Normal After Color Matching 4. Auto Level Automatically adjusts the highlight and shadow areas of the scanned image to optimize your image. Normal After Auto Level 4-10 User's Manual 4. 2 Using the Advanced Features 4. 2. 1 The Switch button 1. Click the button to pop up the advanced settings bar at the right side. The advanced settings include Highlight/Shadow, Hue/Saturation/Lightness, Curve, Color Balance, Color Drop-out. The Advanced Settings bar 1 2 4-11 4. 2. 2 Adjusting Highlight/Shadow Levels Highlight refers the lightest point in a scanned image while shadow refers the darkest point. [. . . ] If this occurs please follow the cleaning procedures to return your machine to its original state. The Cleaning Procedures Soak a cotton swab with some isopropyl alcohol. Rotate the roller forward with your finger and repeat the cleaning steps above until the entire roller is cleaned. 3) Wipe the pad in one direction from top to bottom or the other way around. [. . . ]