Setting the Image Quality
You can adjust image quality to the appropriate level best suited for a document with text or photos. Three modes
are available for adjusting image quality.
1
Press Image Quality to select the image
quality.
1 0 0 %
Ex:
Each time Image Quality is pressed, the image
quality mode changes as follows:
TEXT
– TEXT
Suitable for making copies from text originals. Good
copies can be made from even blueprints or faint
pencil-drawn originals.
Adjusting the Copy Exposure
You can adjust the copy exposure automatically or manually according to how light or dark your document is.
I Adjusting Automatically
1
Press Exposure to select the auto mode.
D E N S I T Y
A U T O E X P O S U R E
Ex:
I Adjusting Manually
1
Press Exposure to select the manual
mode.
D E N S I T Y
- L T
Ex:
Use 4 (–) or e (+) to adjust the copy
2
exposure. For a lighter copy exposure,
press 4 (–). For a darker copy exposure,
press e (+).
D E N S I T Y
- L T
Ex:
4-6
L T R
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T E X T
TEXT/PHOTO
PHOTO
D K +
D K +
– TEXT/PHOTO
Suitable for making copies from originals containing
both text and photos, or photo originals containing
half-tones (i.e. printed photos).
– PHOTO
Suitable for making copies from photos printed on
photographic paper.
• Copy exposure automatically changes to
manual mode when TEXT/PHOTO or
NOTE
PHOTO is set.
• To sharpen the black and white contrast of
an image, adjust the image as follows:
Press Additional Functions, then
select
COPY SETTINGS.
Then choose SHARPNESS. (→ p. 7-3)
2
Press Set.
1 0 0 %
L T R
A
T E X T
Ex:
• The copy exposure is adjusted automatically.
• Image quality mode automatically changes
to TEXT when AUTO EXPOSURE is set.
NOTE
3
Press Set.
1 0 0 %
L T R
T E X T
Ex:
• When setting the exposure lighter, the
indicator moves to the left. When setting
NOTE
the exposure darker, the indicator moves to
the right.
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