Epson ActionScanner ActionScanner II Getting Started
Epson ActionScanner ActionScanner II Getting Started

Epson ActionScanner ActionScanner II Getting Started

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EPSON
ACTIONSCANNER™II

Getting Started

for Macintosh
printed on recycled paper with at least 10% post-consumer content

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  • Page 1: Getting Started

    EPSON ACTIONSCANNER™II Getting Started for Macintosh printed on recycled paper with at least 10% post-consumer content...
  • Page 2: Copyright Notice

    Neither Seiko Epson Corporation nor its affiliates shall be liable to the purchaser of this product or third parties for damages, losses, costs, or expenses incurred by purchaser or third parties as a result of: accident, misuse, or abuse of this product or unauthorized modifications, repairs, or alterations to this product.
  • Page 3: Table Of Contents

    System and Memory Requirements Setting Up the Scanner ..... Connecting the Scanner to Your Macintosh ..
  • Page 4: Introduction

    Introduction This package contains everything you need for professional quality color scanning: Q EPSON® ActionScanner™ II color scanner, which scans in full color (24 bit) or grayscale monochrome (8 bit) at 300 dpi (dots per inch) Q SCSI system cable CI EPSON Scanning Utilities for Macintosh®...
  • Page 5: System And Memory Requirements

    Setting Up the Scanner Follow these steps to set up the scanner: 1. Take the scanner out of its box and place it on a flat, stable surface with the rear panel facing you. 2. Remove the tape securing the scanner cover and pull out...
  • Page 6 4. Remove the screw and push it into the storage hole marked STOCK; do not screw it in. 5. Connect one end of the power cable to the power inlet on the rear of the scanner and plug the other end into an appropriately grounded electrical outlet as shown below.
  • Page 7: Connecting The Scanner To Your Macintosh

    If the scanner comes on when you plug it in, turn it off by OPERATE pressing the Warning: Whenever you before turning it back on. Rapidly turning it on and off can damage the scanner. Connecting the Scanner to Your...
  • Page 8 Turn off your Macintosh, scanner, and all peripheral devices. Caution: Be sure that your Macintosh, scanner, and all peripheral devices are turned off before you plug in the SCSI cable. Plug the 25-pin connector into the SCSI port on the Macintosh with a e icon above it.
  • Page 9: Installing The Epson Scanning Utilities

    It also calibrates your scanner and output devices to produce images nearly identical to the originals. EPSON TWAIN is a set of drivers designed to access your scanner’s advanced features for any software that supports TWAIN for Macintosh. TWAIN drivers are an industry standard for acquiring image data from a variety of external sources without leaving your application program.
  • Page 10 Restart Click to restart your Macintosh. The program creates an EPSON Scan! II folder on your hard disk containing a Scan! II and Scan! II Help icon. 10. Raise the scanner’s cover and place an image face down on the upper right comer of the glass surface. Then carefully close the cover.
  • Page 11: Installing Adobe Photodeluxe

    You see the EPSON TWAIN easy screen: Document Source : [ Flatbed image Type : Destination : Scan. 13. Click Scan! II Image 1 screen. If you do not see it, click setup steps, beginning on page 2. Close 14. Click...
  • Page 12: Installing Maxsoft-Ocron Wordlinx

    6. When you see an installation completion message, click to exit the Installer. 7. Restart your Macintosh. See the online documentation that comes with PhotoDeluxe for instructions on using the program. Installing Maxsoft-Ocron Wordlinx Follow these steps to install Wordlinx: 1.
  • Page 13 After you choose an image, follow these steps to scan it: Raise the document cover on the scanner and place the image face down on the glass surface. Carefully close the document cover so that you do not disturb the position of the photograph on the glass.
  • Page 14: Putting It Together

    You see the EPSON TWAIN easy screen: Docwnmt Sourer: lmaqe Type : Dniination : Scan. 7. Select 8. In a few moments, the scanned image is imported into PhotoDeluxe. If you like, you can now modify the image using any of the PhotoDeluxe features.
  • Page 15: Calibrating Your System

    The next sections discuss basic calibration techniques and resolution settings you can use in EPSON Scan! II to help you achieve the results you want. See your EPSON Scanning Utilities User’s Guide for Macintosh for information on other, more sophisticated methods of modifying your scan.
  • Page 16 4. Choose Enabling screen calibration Now follow these steps to enable screen calibration so EPSON TWAIN can use it when you scan images: 1. From the File menu, choose Advanced.
  • Page 17 Scan! II to your application and then create a calibration profile. Note: If you have any of these EPSON Stylus® ink jet printers, Scan! II provides printer calibration profiles for you so you do not have to create them:...
  • Page 18: File Menu

    Select a file format you can import into the software you plan to use and click on ‘Export’. Import the resulting Calibration Chart file into your software and print i on your printer. Then return to EPSON Scan!Il and select ‘Create Calibration Profile...’ from the ‘Calibrate’ menu. t3 EPSON Scan!II v Export image as:...
  • Page 19: Creating Printer Calibration Profiles

    10. Exit PhotoDeluxe. Creating printer calibration profiles Follow these steps to create a calibration profile for each printer: 1. Start EPSON Scan! II, if necessary. 2. Place the printed calibration chart face down on the glass surface of the scanner.
  • Page 20 You see the easy screen, select Choose the dialog box. 3. If you have one of the EPSON ink jet printers listed in the Note on page 14, select the printer from the Name pull-down menu. The Calibration description is assigned automatically.
  • Page 21: Selecting The Correct Resolution

    In other words, there is no point in scanning at a higher resolution then your output device is capable of. To keep file sizes manageable, select the lowest resolution that provides acceptable quality on your output device. button. The scanner scans using the...
  • Page 22 Desktop or office color printer Printing press or image setter You can change resolutions using EPSON TWAIN by choosing Destination button on the advanced screen. In the Destination dialog box, select the box beneath the resolution type you want to change choose the resolution for that type from the pull-down menu.

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