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  • Page 1 EPSON TWAIN User’s Guide...

  • Page 2: Copyright Notice

    SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION. The information contained herein is designed only for use with this EPSON scanner. EPSON is not responsible for any use of this information as applied to other scanners.
  • Page 3 Trademarks EPSON is a registered trademark of SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION. Perfection and EPSON FaxAdvice are trademarks and EPSON SoundAdvice is a service mark of Epson America, Inc. General Notice: Other product names used herein are for identification purposes only and may be trademarks of their respective companies.

  • Page 4: Table Of Contents

    Windows System Requirements Macintosh System Requirements How to Use This Manual Cautions, Notes, and Tips Using Electronic Links Basic Scanning Starting EPSON TWAIN Selecting Basic Settings Previewing Your Scan Using Marquees Advanced Scanning Scanning Transparencies Scanning with the Auto Document Feeder...
  • Page 5 Customizing Image Types Customizing Destination Settings Adjusting Source and Target Image Sizes Scaling the Image Using Automatic Adjustment Features Using Auto Exposure Using Auto Locate Adjusting Image Controls Using the Color Buttons Using Tone Correction Customizing Tone Correction Settings Using Color Adjustments Changing the Gray Balance Intensity Changing the Saturation Saving Custom Settings...
  • Page 6 Using the EPSON TWAIN Utilities Using the Scanner Monitoring Utility Using the EPSON Screen Calibration Utility Calibrating the Screen with Windows Calibrating the Macintosh Screen Using EPSON Scan! II Scanning with EPSON Scan! II Exporting Images with EPSON Scan! II...
  • Page 7 Troubleshooting Problems Using EPSON TWAIN Problems Using the Start Button Problems with Image Quality Where To Get Help Glossary Index Page 7...

  • Page 8: Introduction

    (OCR) programs, and managing text pages in NewSoft™ Presto!™ PageManager™. EPSON TWAIN includes many features for previewing and modifying your images for the perfect scan: Captures all kinds of image types, from black and white text to 36-bit...
  • Page 9 Here is a brief overview of scanning steps using the EPSON TWAIN Advanced window (the Windows steps are the same): 1 Select the basic settings: Document Source Image Type Destination Resolution 2 Preview your image Introduction ® interface is shown; the Macintosh...

  • Page 10: System Requirements

    EPSON Scanner Monitor (Macintosh) or Scan Events (Windows) utilities that let you scan with Presto! PageManager using the Start button EPSON Screen Calibration utility to calibrate your screen to your scanner for accurate previews EPSON Scan! II (Macintosh only), a TWAIN-compliant application you can use for basic scanning and exporting of images (if you don’t have...

  • Page 11: Macintosh System Requirements

    How to Use This Manual 8.5 or later, check the Apple web site for For instructions on installing EPSON TWAIN, see the Scanner Basics any updates. book. This User’s Guide tells you what you need to know to scan with EPSON TWAIN and use the TWAIN utilities.

  • Page 12: Cautions, Notes, And Tips

    Using the Start Button gives step-by-step instructions on setting up and using your scanner’s Start button for one-touch scanning. Troubleshooting provides solutions to problems you may encounter. At the end, you’ll find a Glossary and an Index. Cautions, Notes, and Tips You’ll find this information throughout your manual: Cautions must be observed to avoid damage to your equipment.

  • Page 13: Basic Scanning

    EPSON Scan! II Before scanning, make sure you’ve installed the EPSON TWAIN software (Macintosh only) is a (as described in the Scanner Basics book) and the application software TWAIN-compliant that supports EPSON TWAIN, such as Adobe application supplied PageManager. with EPSON TWAIN This chapter gives you instructions on: in case you don’t have...

  • Page 14: Starting Epson Twain

    Starting EPSON TWAIN Follow the steps in this section to start EPSON TWAIN from your application software. The steps may vary, depending on your application. If you start your 1 Make sure you set up and turned on the scanner. Then place the application software document you want to scan on the document table.
  • Page 15 Easy window The first time you start EPSON TWAIN, you see the Easy window. After that, you’ll see the window that was open the last time you closed EPSON The screen examples TWAIN. To switch between the windows, click the Easy or Advanced in this book are from button.

  • Page 16: Selecting Basic Settings

    Selecting Basic Settings For most scans, you need to check four basic settings: Document Source, Image Type, Destination, and Resolution (Advanced window only). Document Source settings for optional 1 You only need to change the Document Source setting if you’ve equipment appear in installed an optional transparency unit (TPU) or auto document feeder the list only when that...
  • Page 17 2 You must select the correct Image Type setting each time you scan. These image types automatically select other TWAIN settings that are the best for your type of image and set the ranges for your Image Controls. Select one of the following options: To view the default Setting settings for the Image...
  • Page 18 Type of output device For viewing on a monitor screen or within a web page For printing on your EPSON ink jet printer For printing on a laser printer For sending to a fax machine or fax/modem For sending to an OCR (Optical Character...
  • Page 19 6 When you’re ready to scan, click the Scan button. The scanned image appears in your application window. 7 Click the Close button to close the EPSON TWAIN window and return to your application. To modify or save your scanned image using your application software, see your software documentation.

  • Page 20: Previewing Your Scan

    If you want to crop the image, you can preview and use a marquee. Then you can zoom into the cropped area using the If you want to save your preview image and settings after closing EPSON TWAIN, or select other previewing options, see...

  • Page 21: Using Marquees

    Using Marquees A marquee is a frame around an entire image, or a portion of an image so you can scan only the most important part. To create a marquee, follow these steps: 1 Move the mouse pointer over the preview image; the pointer becomes If the mouse pointer a cross hair.
  • Page 22 Adjusting a Marquee To resize a marquee, place the mouse pointer over its edge; the pointer changes to a double-headed arrow. Click the mouse button and drag the box up, down, sideways, or diagonally to the size you want. To resize a marquee and retain its width-to-height proportions, hold down the Shift key as you drag the edge of the marquee.

  • Page 23: Advanced Scanning

    Scanning with the Auto Document Feeder Customizing Image Types Customizing Destination Settings The screen examples Adjusting Source and Target Image Sizes in this book are from EPSON TWAIN for Using Automatic Adjustment Windows. The Exposure screens for Macintosh Adjusting Image...

  • Page 24: Scanning Transparencies

    Scanning Transparencies When you scan with the optional transparency unit (TPU) installed, you need to select the correct basic settings in EPSON TWAIN. Before you begin, make sure you’ve installed and turned on the transparency unit, If you’re scanning then place your transparent original in the unit. See your Scanner Basics positive, reflective book for instructions.
  • Page 25 2 You must select the correct Image Type setting each time you scan. These image types automatically select other TWAIN settings that are the best for your type of image and set the ranges for your Image Controls. Select one of the following options: To view the default Setting settings for the Image...
  • Page 26 Advanced Scanning Type of output device For viewing on a monitor screen or web page For printing on your EPSON ink jet printer For printing on a laser printer For sending to a fax machine or fax/modem For sending to an OCR (Optical Character...
  • Page 27 6 When you’re ready to scan, click the Scan button. The scanned image appears in your application window. 7 Click the Close button to close the EPSON TWAIN window and return to your application. To modify or save your scanned image using your application software, see your software documentation.

  • Page 28: Scanning With The Auto Document Feeder

    Scanning with the Auto Document Feeder When you scan with the optional auto document feeder (ADF) installed, you need to select the correct basic settings in EPSON TWAIN. Before you begin, make sure you’ve installed the ADF and loaded your single- or The maximum page multi-page document into it, as shown below.
  • Page 29 2 Select the correct Image Type setting for your document as described in the table below. For example, if you’ll be using an OCR (Optical Character Recognition) application to process your scanned document, select the OCR setting. If you’re scanning Setting an original on the Color Photo...
  • Page 30 For viewing on a monitor screen For viewing on a monitor screen with added sharpness For printing on your EPSON ink jet printer For printing on a laser printer For sending to a fax machine or fax/modem For sending to an OCR application...
  • Page 31 The scanner feeds the first (or only) page of your document into the you scan using ADF and prescans it. The prescanned image appears in the EPSON ICM/sRGB TWAIN preview image area. When the ADF ejects the first (or only) (Windows 98) or page, reload it in the ADF on top of your document.
  • Page 32 Click Single Page (to scan a single page) or All Pages (to scan a multi-page document). Then click OK. 8 EPSON TWAIN scans the document. If you’re scanning a multi-page document, it scans and loads one page at a time. When scanning is finished, close the EPSON TWAIN window.

  • Page 33: Customizing Image Types

    Customizing Image Types You can change the settings for the predefined Image Type options in EPSON TWAIN or add new image types. Click the Image Type button in the Advanced window. You see the Image Type dialog box: predefined image types To change the settings of one of the predefined image types, select it from the Image Type Name list, change the settings, and click Save.
  • Page 34 The table below describes the Image Type settings. Image Type setting Options Pixel Depth 24-bit Color 8-bit Gray Black & White Halftone* None Mode A (Hard tone) Mode B (Soft tone) Mode C (Net Screen) Dither A (4 Dither B (4 Dither C (4 Dither D (8 Advanced Scanning...
  • Page 35 Image Type setting Options Dropout** None Green Blue Scanning Draft Best De-screening B/W Option* (Windows) None Black and White Text Enhancement Options* (Macintosh) Technology Auto Area Segmentation * Available only when the Pixel Depth setting is set to Black & White. ** Available only when the Pixel Depth setting is set to 8-bit Gray or Black &...

  • Page 36: Customizing Destination Settings

    You can change the settings for the predefined Destination (output device) options available in EPSON TWAIN or add new Destination options of your own. Click the Destination button in the EPSON TWAIN window. You see the Destination dialog box: predefined...
  • Page 37 The resolution and sharpness settings for each of the predefined Destination options are listed in the table below: Destination options Screen/Web EPSON ink jet printer Laser Printer The default resolution settings set by the Destination option are based on the Image Type you select: If you selected Color Photo or Black &...

  • Page 38: Adjusting Source And Target Image Sizes

    Adjusting Source and Target Image Sizes The Source width and height fields indicate the size of the entire preview image or of the marquee. You can type in a new width and height to specify exactly how much of the image you want to scan. Sometimes the values you select may be rounded up or...

  • Page 39: Scaling The Image

    Using Automatic Adjustment Features to increase the Resolution setting by EPSON TWAIN includes two automatic adjustment features to help you the same proportion quickly prepare your preview image for scanning, as described in these to retain your image sections: quality.

  • Page 40: Using Auto Exposure

    Using Auto Exposure Click the automatically adjust the image exposure. Auto Exposure sets the Exposure, Highlight, Gamma, and Shadow settings in the Image Controls Auto Exposure is dialog box automatically. See automatically enabled when you scan from Using Auto Locate the Easy window.
  • Page 41 If the document table contains more than one image, select the target image by dragging the mouse pointer across it to create a rough marquee (see Using Marquees for instructions). Then click the Auto Locate button. The marquee is placed exactly around the target image borders automatically.

  • Page 42: Adjusting Image Controls

    Adjusting Image Controls Use the Image Controls to adjust the following settings: Exposure Auto Exposure Gamma overrides any Image Highlight Controls setting you select. Shadow Threshold You can’t use the Image Controls when Click the Text Enhancement the Image Controls dialog box: Technology is turned on (see Customizing...
  • Page 43 The Image Controls settings are described in the table below. Image Controls* Description Exposure Gamma Highlight Shadow Threshold * The Threshold setting is available only when the Pixel Depth setting is set to Black & White and the Halftone setting is set to None. When the Threshold setting is active, the rest of the Image Controls are not available.

  • Page 44: Using The Color Buttons

    Using the Color Buttons You can use the Highlight and Shadow color buttons to select particular colors in the image for use as the highlight and shadow colors. Click a color button and move the mouse pointer over the preview image; the pointer changes to an eyedropper icon.

  • Page 45: Customizing Tone Correction Settings

    Each point on the tone curve represents the Output checkbox characteristic to its right. For example, the top point on the curve represents the Highlight characteristic. In addition, the Channels radio buttons indicate the color(s) that the tone curve will modify: red, green, blue, or all three colors. Once you’ve selected the color you want to modify using the Channels buttons, use these methods to change the tones: Drag points on the tone curve to adjust the tone value.

  • Page 46: Using Color Adjustments

    Using Color Adjustments You can adjust the Gray Balance Intensity and Saturation of colors in a color image using the Color Adjustment tools. Color Adjustment Click the settings are disabled the Color Adjustment dialog box: if you click the Scan button without previewing the image.

  • Page 47: Changing The Gray Balance Intensity

    Changing the Gray Balance Intensity The Gray Balance Intensity setting adjusts the gray tones in the image to appear more neutral. You may need to adjust this setting if the three colors that are mixed together to form the neutral gray are unbalanced. For example, if a photograph has an undesirable green color cast caused by fluorescent lighting, you can select a greenish area in the photo and adjust the intensity to achieve the correct colors.

  • Page 48: Saving Custom Settings

    Saving Custom Settings You can save a custom set of all the EPSON TWAIN settings for your scan so you can easily select it when you perform a similar scan later. You can even save different settings for the same image or marquee and scan all of them at once;...

  • Page 49: Batch Scanning

    Batch Scanning To quickly scan one image or marquee with a variety of different settings, you can perform a batch scan. Follow these steps: 1 Create and save each group of settings you want to scan with, giving Some applications each a unique name, as described in don’t support batch scanning or must...

  • Page 50: Configuring Preview And Color Options

    Configuring Preview and Color Options You can configure EPSON TWAIN’s preview and color options so they work the way you want whenever you use the program. Click the Configuration button to display the Configuration dialog box: Windows Macintosh To automatically save the preview image and all the scanning settings when you preview, scan, or close TWAIN, click the Save Preview Image and Settings checkbox.
  • Page 51 If you’re using applications that let you select color management profiles ColorSync, you must for your printer, you’ll get great printed output when you scan your images also set up that color using either ICM/sRGB (Windows 98/NT 4.0) or ColorSync (Macintosh) management system to reproduce colors more closely.

  • Page 52: Using The Epson Twain Utilities

    These sections give instructions for using the utilities installed along with EPSON TWAIN to help you scan and calibrate your system: Using the Scanner Monitoring Utility Using the EPSON Screen Calibration Utility Using EPSON Scan! II Using the Scanner Monitoring Utility...

  • Page 53: Using The Epson Screen Calibration Utility

    When you installed EPSON TWAIN on your system, you calibrated your screen at the end of the installation sequence. If you ever change your monitor or want to re-calibrate your screen, you can run the EPSON Screen Calibration utility again. Calibrating your screen improves the accuracy of your preview images in EPSON TWAIN.
  • Page 54 View the screen from a short distance when you calibrate it. The gray stripes won’t blend perfectly together; however, try to make them match as closely as possible. Using the EPSON TWAIN Utilities Utility tab before calibration after calibration Page 54...

  • Page 55: Calibrating The Macintosh Screen

    8 Click OK at all the open windows to close them and return to the Control Panel. Calibrating the Macintosh Screen Follow these steps to calibrate your screen: 1 Open the EPSON Scanner folder and select EPSON Screen Calibration. You see the following dialog box: View the screen from a short distance when you calibrate it.

  • Page 56: Using Epson Scan! Ii

    See the Scanner software may not Basics book for instructions. work properly. 2 To start EPSON Scan! II, select the EPSON Scan! II icon in the EPSON Scanner folder. Using the EPSON TWAIN Utilities Page 56...
  • Page 57 EPSON Scan! II for the first time. 4 Select EPSON TWAIN 4 and click Select. 5 Open EPSON TWAIN for scanning. Choose Acquire from the File menu. Using the EPSON TWAIN Utilities Click to select the...
  • Page 58 6 When you’re ready to scan, click the Scan button. The scanned image appears in your EPSON Scan! II window. 7 Click the Close button to close the EPSON TWAIN window to return to EPSON Scan! II. 8 To export your image in a format your image-editing application can...

  • Page 59: Exporting Images With Epson Scan

    EPSON Scan! II by other applications original format files in Most of the time, you’ll want to export any images you scan with EPSON EPSON Scan! II; you Scan! II so you can open them in an image-editing or desktop publishing cannot open any program for use in your documents.
  • Page 60 1 Start EPSON Scan! II and scan your image as described in with EPSON Scan! 2 In the EPSON Scan! II window, select Export from the File menu. You see the Export dialog box. 3 Select the drive and folder to which you want to export the file.
  • Page 61 6 Type a name for the file in the Export image as list. 7 Click Export. EPSON Scan! II scans and then exports the image. 8 Close the EPSON TWAIN window and return to the EPSON Scan! II window. Using the EPSON TWAIN Utilities...

  • Page 62: Using Other Epson Scan! Ii Features

    Using the View Features To modify the view of your image in the EPSON Scan! II window, open the View menu. Select the All Dots[1:1] option if you want each dot (pixel) in your image represented by one dot on your screen.

  • Page 63: Copying Images

    Copying Images You can copy all or a portion of a scanned image in EPSON Scan! II and then paste it into another application. Follow these steps: 1 To select the entire image area for copying, open the Edit menu and choose Select All.

  • Page 64: Using The Start Button

    With one-touch scanning, you can load a document in the scanner, press the Start button, and watch while PageManager starts and then opens EPSON TWAIN automatically. You can even set up PageManager to automatically load your scanned document into another application—...

  • Page 65: Enabling Scanner Monitoring

    Enabling Scanner Monitoring When you installed EPSON TWAIN on your system, the installer automatically installed the TWAIN utilities, including these scanner monitoring utilities: Scan Events monitor in the Scanners and Cameras Control Panel (Windows 98) EPSON Scanner Monitor (Windows 95 and NT 4.0) EPSON Scanner Monitor (Macintosh) These utilities let your scanner’s Start button communicate with your...
  • Page 66 Setting Up Monitoring for Windows 98 The Scan Events monitor installed into the Windows Scanners and Cameras Control Panel is automatically enabled and ready to scan to PageManager (and any other Start button compatible programs) when you press the Start button. If you ever want to disable (or enable) Start button scanning, follow these steps: 1 Click Start, point to Settings, and click the Control Panel icon.
  • Page 67 4 Click the Events tab. You see this dialog box: Disable device events checkbox 5 To disable Start button scanning, click the Disable device events checkbox; a check appears in the checkbox. To enable Start button scanning, click the Disable device events checkbox to uncheck it.
  • Page 68 Setting Up Monitoring for Windows 95 and Windows NT 4.0 The EPSON Scanner Monitor installed with EPSON TWAIN on the PC is automatically enabled and set up to scan with PageManager when you press the Start button. If you want to disable the EPSON Scanner Monitor for the current...
  • Page 69 Macintosh is automatically enabled and set up to scan with PageManager when you press the Start button. If you ever want to disable the EPSON Scanner Monitor, do the following: 1 Select EPSON Scanner Monitor Setup from the Apple menu; you see the EPSON Scanner Monitor dialog box.

  • Page 70: Setting Up Pagemanager For Start Button Scanning

    Setting Up PageManager for Start Button Scanning To use PageManager with your scanner’s Start button, you must set up PageManager’s Scan Buttons palette and assign a destination program or device to the Start button. For example, if you want the images you To set up other Start scan to be sent directly to your image editing program, you can assign the button compliant...
  • Page 71 2 To change the program or device assigned to the Start button, click its icon in the Select target application box. 3 If you want to automatically launch EPSON TWAIN within PageManager when you press the Start button, make sure the Execute Scan Button automatically checkbox is checked.
  • Page 72 Adding a Destination to the Scan Buttons Palette If you want to add program or device icons to the Scan Buttons palette, follow these steps: 1 Open the File menu and select Scan Buttons Setting. You see the Scan Buttons Setting dialog box. Click the Properties tab, if necessary.
  • Page 73 Start button. For the best results, don’t suppress the If you don’t check the checkbox, the EPSON TWAIN dialog box EPSON TWAIN appears after you press the Start button and PageManager opens. interface when Then you can preview, select settings, and click Scan when you’re...
  • Page 74 You may want to reassign an existing icon to a different program or device, or just change its settings. For example, if you use more than one printer, you may want to reassign the printer icon to each printer as you need it.
  • Page 75 3 To select a different program or device for the icon, choose it from the Scan to (Windows) or the Scan to App (Macintosh) setting list. 4 If you checked the Suppress TWAIN User Interface checkbox, change any of the active PageManager scan settings as necessary; 5 If you want to assign a new program or device to the Start button, see Assigning a Destination to the Start Button 6 When you’re finished reassigning destinations, click OK.
  • Page 76 The table below describes the settings and their available options. Setting Options Document Type Magazine (Text and Picture) (Windows only) Magazine (Picture) Photograph Document Letter Business Card Others Scan Mode Color Gray Black and White Scan Size Legal 8.5 Letter 8.5 A4 210 B5 182 A5 148...
  • Page 77 Setting Options Resolution Enable Document Feeder Brightness –100 to 100 Contrast –100 to 100 Threshold 0 to 255 Using the Start Button Description Select the scanning resolution you want to use. You can’t type in a custom resolution. If you’re scanning with the optional auto document feeder, check the checkbox to turn this feature on.

  • Page 78: Scanning With The Start Button

    Scanning with the Start Button Once you’ve set up your scanner monitoring utility and configured PageManager to handle your scanned images the way you want, you’re ready to scan with the Start button. The sequence of steps varies (as noted in the text), depending on whether you’ve elected to suppress the TWAIN interface or not, and whether you’ve set up PageManager to send your scanned images to another application or not.
  • Page 79 Follow these steps to scan with the Start button: 1 If you’re scanning a single page on the scanner’s document table, place the document face down and align its horizontal and vertical edges with the scales on the top and right side of the document table. If you’re using the auto document feeder to scan a multi-page document, load your document face up with the first page on top of the document.
  • Page 80 Enabling Scanner Monitoring. Click Presto! PageManager for EPSON and click OK. (If the dialog box disappears before you select an application, press the scanner’s Start button again.) If you suppressed the 4 If PageManager wasn’t running when you pressed the Start button, TWAIN interface, you PageManager starts on your system.
  • Page 81 If you didn’t suppress the TWAIN interface, the EPSON TWAIN Easy or Advanced window opens in PageManager, along with the Scan Buttons bar. Go to step 5. Easy window Advanced window 5 To scan a document for an OCR application, select the following...
  • Page 82 If you’re scanning from the document table, EPSON TWAIN prescans the page. If you’re using the ADF, EPSON TWAIN loads the first page and prescans it. When the ADF ejects the first page, reload it in the ADF on top of your document with the top edge facing into the feeder.
  • Page 83 11 If you set up the Start button to load your scanned images into PageManager, click the Inbox icon to view the images in PageManager. (See your PageManager documentation for instructions on processing images.) If you set up the Start button to load the scanned images into your OCR application (or another application), PageManager processes the images and opens the application.

  • Page 84: Troubleshooting

    If you encounter any problems using EPSON TWAIN, try the solutions in these sections: Problems Using EPSON TWAIN Problems Using the Start Button Problems with Image Quality If the information here doesn’t help you solve the problem, check with your dealer or contact EPSON. See information.
  • Page 85 Make sure EPSON TWAIN can access enough system memory. See more memory. the section on memory allocation in your computer manual. EPSON TWAIN is not EPSON TWAIN may not be selected as the TWAIN source in your selected as your application. See TWAIN source.
  • Page 86 Problem Solution A system error has An error condition may have caused your application or the TWAIN occurred. source to stop working correctly. Save any documents in process, close any open applications, and restart Windows: then start your application and try again. Sometimes an error condition may cause the computer to display a message telling you that your scanner is not recognized.
  • Page 87 Problem Solution You may have selected Select different EPSON TWAIN settings. You may have selected an incorrect scan settings. incorrect Image Type or Destination setting, or the Exposure, Highlight, and Tone Correction settings may be inappropriate for your image. See...

  • Page 88: Problems Using The Start Button

    You see the message “No Push button scanner detected.” Problem Solution Scanner monitoring The EPSON Scanner Monitor periodically checks on the status of your doesn’t detect the scanner to make sure it’s ready. Sometimes the scanner check occurs scanner. when your system is processing other information and the scanner is not detected during that particular check.
  • Page 89 Start button to another application, scanning may take longer. This is the Start button in because your system must use extra resources to open PageManager PageManager. and EPSON TWAIN, and then scan your image, process it, and send it to another application. Troubleshooting Enabling Scanner Monitoring for instructions.

  • Page 90: Problems With Image Quality

    Make sure the Destination (output device) setting is set to Screen/Web. settings may be set If you selected a printer as the Destination setting, the image may more incorrectly. closely match the original when printed, but not when displayed on the screen.
  • Page 91 Make sure you have calibrated your monitor to your scanner as calibrated or isn’t described in adjusted correctly. your monitor’s brightness and contrast settings. Make sure the Destination (output device) setting is set to Screen/Web in EPSON TWAIN. Troubleshooting Advanced Scanning for instructions on changing these Using the EPSON Screen Calibration Utility.
  • Page 92 Depending on your monitor, its resolution/color settings, and your be calibrated correctly. EPSON TWAIN settings, the screen colors may be different from the original colors. This may be normal, especially if the colors in the printed image more closely match the original. Make sure you have correctly...
  • Page 93 The printer can’t print the image, or the printout is garbled or isn’t an image. Problem Solution Your printer and Check that the printer is properly connected to the computer and is computer may not be correctly set up; see your printer manual.
  • Page 94 Solution You scanned the Scan the document again using OCR as the Image Type and document using Destination settings in EPSON TWAIN. This automatically turns on the incorrect Image Type Text Enhancement Technology setting that eliminates background and Destination document noise. See settings.

  • Page 95: Where To Get Help

    EPSON Internet FTP Site EPSON Forum on CompuServe Troubleshooting Access From the Internet, you can reach EPSON’s Home Page at http://www.epson.com. If you have Internet FTP capability, use your Web browser (or other software for FTP downloading) to log onto ftp.epson.com with the user name anonymous and your...
  • Page 96 Description of the problem technical support information. You can purchase optional equipment, manuals, and accessories from EPSON Accessories at (800) 873-7766 or visit our web site at www.epsonsupplies.com (U.S. sales only). In Canada, please call (800) 873-7766 for dealer referral. Troubleshooting...

  • Page 97: Glossary

    Dots per inch. A unit of measurement for resolution. The higher the value, the higher the resolution. Dropout An EPSON TWAIN option that lets you select a color for the scanner to ignore. Halftone A method of using dot patterns to represent an image.
  • Page 98 “reads” the colors in an image, and sends the color information to the computer as digital data. Threshold An EPSON TWAIN option that sets the point at which gray values in an image are represented as either black or white. Glossary...

  • Page 99: Index

    Calibration problems, 84, utility, 10, Index Color Adjustment settings, Color buttons, Color correction options, ColorSync, 11, 27, 31, Configuration settings, Copying images, EPSON Scan! II, Custom settings destinations, image types, saving, tone correction, De-screening setting, Destination setting ADF settings, basic settings, 16,...
  • Page 100 EPSON Accessories, help, EPSON Scan! II copy feature, exporting images with, scanning with, using, view features, Exporting images, EPSON Scan! II, Exposure setting, to 43, 87, Gamma setting, Gray Balance Intensity setting, Halftone setting, to 35, Help, Highlight setting, to 43,...
  • Page 101 Negative images, see Transparencies One-touch scanning, see Start button Optical Character Recognition (OCR), 17, 25, 29, Output device ADF settings, basic settings, 16, customizing, problems, 87, transparency settings, 24, Pixel Depth setting, to 35, Presto! PageManager adding destinations, assigning destinations, problems using, reassigning destinations, scan button settings,...
  • Page 102 Scan Events, 10, 52, 65, 67, Scanner monitoring, 10, 52, Scanning advanced, basic, 9, batch, 21, to 49, transparencies, with ADF, with Start button, Scanning mode setting, Screen calibration problems, 84, utility, 10, Service, Settings button, problems with, 87, Shadow setting, to 43, Sharpness setting, Software installation problems, 85,...
  • Page 103 TWAIN basic settings, previewing, problems using, starting, to 15, suppressing interface with Start button, to 77, 80, USB interface, Utilities, 10, View features, EPSON Scan! II, Zoom Preview, 20, Index Page 103...

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