Important Scanning Notes - Microtek ScanMaker IIG User Manual

Important scanning notes

Here are some tips to help you with scanning. If you're not familiar with the scanning
process, you may wish to review the preceding pages first on the individual scanning tasks
to get a feel for the software and how it works. Also, if some of the concepts discussed in
these pages are not familiar to you, you can see the Reference section of the manual for a
detailed discussion.
• When you do a preview or scan, make
sure you have the image type selected
correctly. For instance, if you're only
previewing or scanning grayscale
images, do not select a color mode, as
this slows down the process and creates
bigger files than is necessary. If you're
only previewing grayscale images, you
can turn off the Live Preview option in the
Preview Setup command.
• Familiarize yourself with the Scan Frame
tool. At its simplest, the tool is used to
crop preview images for final scanning.
However, you can also use the Scan
Frame tool to create multiple scan
frames, and with the creation of multiple
scan frames, this means you're actually
creating duplicate scan jobs (that are
based on the current scan job).
Each scan frame (and by extension,
each scan job) can then have its
particular settings, so that one scan job
can be in grayscale; another in color with
a certain brightness setting; and yet
another in color with a filter applied to it.
You can create multiple scan frames in a
single image, or you can have several
images and have several scan frames
spread out among the images.
• Familiarize yourself too with the Zoom
Preview tool, which is ideal for enlarging
a part of the preview image and
previewing it in high resolution. The
enlarged view obtained from the zoom
preview tool is not the same as the view
obtained from the Magnifying Lens tool,
which is simply an enlarged view (but not
in high resolution).
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For previews and scans
• On using the Input-Output dimensions
and Aspect Lock: Use the input
dimensions to specify your scan frame;
or if you wish, you can simply drag on the
scan frame to whatever size you want,
and the dimensions will be reflected in
the input width and height boxes. The
input dimensions can be changed only if
your Aspect Lock is off.
• On the other hand, the output
dimensions determine the width and
height of your image when output to an
output device such as a monitor or
printer. The output dimensions can be
changed only if the Aspect Lock is on.
Remember too that the output
dimensions are calculated dynamically,
and the system looks at other variables
such as your resolution and scaling to
determine the final output dimensions.
This means that you may specify output
dimensions of 5" x 7", but because of
intervening variables, the actual output
dimensions may be 4.85" x 6.9" — which
is the closest the system can produce
given your other variables.
• Before scanning an image, select the
correct resolution setting. Remember that
overly high settings slow down your
scanning and create huge
unmanageable files. For more details,
see the discussion on resolution in the
Basic Concepts and the Reference
section.
• To achieve quality scans, see the tips
provided in the Basic Concepts chapter
for more details.