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Scanning to a computer or flash drive
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Color Dropout—Color dropout is used for form Optical Character Recognition (OCR) processing. Selecting a color
eliminates the color from a form, enabling improved OCR capabilities.
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Color Dropout Threshold—Click the arrow buttons to increase or decrease the amount of color dropout.
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Scan edge to edge—Select this check box to scan edge to edge.
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Mirror Image—Select this check box to create a mirror image scan.
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Negative Image—Select this check box to create a negative image scan.
Scanning to a flash drive
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Load an original document faceup, short edge first into the ADF or facedown on the scanner glass.
Note: Do not load postcards, photos, small items, transparencies, photo paper, or thin media (such as magazine
clippings) into the ADF. Place these items on the scanner glass.
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If you are loading a document into the ADF, then adjust the paper guides.
3
Insert the flash drive into the USB port on the front of the printer.
The Held Jobs screen appears.
4
Touch Scan to USB drive.
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Select the scan settings.
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Touch Scan It.
Note: While the flash drive is attached to the printer, a USB icon appears on the home screen.
Improving scan quality
Question
When should I use Text
mode?
When should I use
Text/Photo mode?
When should I use Photo
mode?
Tip
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Use Text mode when text preservation is the main goal of the scan, and preserving images
copied from the original document is not a concern.
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Text mode is recommended for receipts, carbon copy forms, and documents that only
contain text or fine line art.
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Use Text/Photo mode when scanning an original document that contains a mixture of text
and graphics.
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Text/Photo mode is recommended for magazine articles, business graphics, and brochures.
Use Photo mode when scanning photos printed on a laser printer or taken from a magazine or
newspaper.
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