User manual MICROTEK GNC I LIGHTLID 1202

[. . . ] Microtek LightLid 35 Installing and Getting Started The LightLid 35 is a bonus accessory included with your Microtek scanner. It gives you the versatility to scan 35mm slides and filmstrips on your flatbed scanner. Microtek recommends the use of this accessory to scan slides for on-screen display purposes or where high resolution is not critical. [. . . ] The LightLid 35 can be placed horizontally at the front edge of the scanner glass bed, or vertically at anywhere on the glass surface, as shown below. Horizontal Vertical 3. Launch the ScanWizard 5 scanning software in stand-alone mode or from your image-editing software, then select your scan material and start scanning. For details on how to do this, see other documentation included in your scanner package. ScanWizard 5 has two modes -- Standard and Advanced -- and each mode has its own way of selecting the scan material and scanning. · Standard Control Panel: In the Preview window, click the Original button, and choose Positive Film or Negative Film, depending on the material you are scanning. When you are ready to scan, click on the Scan To button, and select where the scanned image will be sent (to image or OCR editing application, to disk, to printer, or to e-mail or website program). Advanced Control Panel: In the Preview window, click on the Scan Material icon, and choose Positive Film or Negative Film, depending on the material you are scanning; for Mac OS X, select Positive or Negative from the Scan Material drop-down menu. When you are ready to scan, click the Scan to button, and select where the scanned image will be sent (to image or OCR editing application, to disk, to printer, or to e-mail or website program ). For more details, see your ScanWizard 5 documentation. · Scan Material icon 2 Microtek LightLid 35 Installing and Getting Started C. Getting the best results To obtain the best results when scanning with the LightLid 35, set the scan Resolution to a minimum 600 dpi and the Scaling to 100%. Refer to the diagrams below for more information on how to set these values in ScanWizard 5 Standard and Advanced Control Panels. ScanWizard 5 - Standard Control Panel Click the Purpose button to select your Resolution value. When the drop-down menu appears, select Custom and type 600 at the dpi box, as shown below. Set Scaling here to 100% ScanWizard 5 - Advanced Control Panel Set Resolution here to 600 dpi Set Scaling here to 100% Settings window in Mac OS X Settings window in Mac OS 9. x Settings window in Windows Microtek LightLid 35 Installing and Getting Started 3 D. Using the LightLid 35 Calibrator The LightLid 35 Calibrator is a program designed for calibrating your LightLid 35 to ensure that it captures colors accurately when scanning slides and filmstrips. Calibration is strongly recommended as a procedure for optimizing your scanned image. [. . . ] Launch the LightLid 35 Calibrator (Mac OS 9. x) or LL35 Calibrator (Mac OS X) from your desktop. Alternatively, you can launch the LightLid 35 Calibrator from the LightLid 35 Calibrator folder (PC and Mac OS 9. x) or from the Applications/ScanWizard 5 Folder (Mac OS X). Follow the on-screen instructions as shown in the Calibrator window right (sample taken from Windows version, which is identical to the Macintosh except for the Title bar). Click the Calibrate button to start calibration 4 Microtek LightLid 35 Installing and Getting Started [. . . ]