Scanning Strategies - Xerox 5101 User Manual

Scanning strategies

When scanning documents, always try the default Image Quality settings first. Select the
documents type: line, photo, mixed or color and use the Original, Type, Normal, Line, Photo or
Color default settings for that type. Color is a Scan-to-Net feature and only available in SCAN
mode. These settings have been designed to give the optimum image quality for most
documents.
If you have a special original type, you may want to try some of the advanced image processing
features available on the Scan System. Table 1 describes the scanning strategies for special
original types.
Type of original
Color photograph
Color lithograph
Color map
Old blueprint or sepia
with dark background
Old blueprint or sepia
with dark background
and side-to-side
fading
Faded line/text
drawing
Line, photo or mixed
original on film, clear
film, vellum/tracing or
other translucent
media
Wide Format Copy System User Guide
Table 1. Scanning Strategies for Special Documents
First step to try
Set Original Type to Photo
Mode COPY: Set Original
Type to Normal.
Mode SCAN: Set Original
Type to Color.
Mode COPY: Set Original
Type to Normal.
Mode SCAN: Set Original
Type to Color.
Set Original Type to Line
and Background
Suppression to Auto.
Transform, Invert to ON
Set Original Type to Line
and Background
Suppression to Auto.
Set Original Type to Line,
Background Suppression to
Auto.
Set Background
Suppression to (light) and
Normal. Select Photo for
photo and select Line for
line drawing. Use Normal
for mixed documents.
Second step to try
Mode Scan: Set Original
Type to Color.
Set Original Type to
Normal and Background
Suppression to Off.
Set Original Type to
Normal and Background
Suppression to Off.
Set Original Type to Line,
Background Suppression
to dark original,
Transform, Invert to ON.
If fade is still visible in the
copy, rotate the original
90 degrees. Generally,
feeding the darkest edge
first provides the best
results.
If fade is still visible in the
copy, rotate the original
90 degrees.
Set Background
Suppression to OFF.
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Third step to try
Set Original Type to
Normal and
Background
Suppression to Off.
Set Original Type to
Photo.
Set Original Type to
Photo.
Adjust the Copy
contrast as required
for best image
quality.
Adjust the Copy
contrast as required
for best image
quality.
Adjust the Copy
contrast as required
for best image
quality.
In reduction, use
Reduction Line
Preservation.
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