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Color Image Scanner AV626C User's Manual (D/N 250-0152-E Rev. A) Avision Inc.
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Trademarks Microsoft is a U.S. registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation. Windows and MS-DOS are trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. IBM, PC, AT, XT are registered trademarks of International Business Machines Corp. Other brands and product names herein are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders. Copyright All rights reserved.
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Warranty The information contained in this document is subject to change without notice. The manufacturer makes no warranty of any kind with regard to this material, including, but not limited to, the implied warranties of fitness for a particular purpose. The manufacturer shall not be liable for errors contained herein or for incidental or consequential damages in connection with the furnishing, performance, or use of...
FCC Radio Frequency Interference Statement This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a class B digital device, pursuant to Part 15 of the FCC rules. These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference residential...
1. INTRODUCTION Congratulations on your purchase of the Button scanner. The Button scanner is compact and small to save desk space. You can scan both normal printing material including photographs as well as the transparency and store them in your computer. Then you can modify them for a variety of purposes on your computer and enjoy the wonderful world of image.
2. SCANNER INSTALLATION 2.1 PRECAUTIONS Keep the scanner out of direct sunlight. Direct Ÿ exposure to the sun or excessive heat may cause damage to the unit. Do not install the scanner in a humid or dusty Ÿ place. Be sure to use the proper AC power source. Ÿ...
UNLOCKING THE SCANNER As shown below, unlock the scanner by moving the scanner lock to the Use position. 1. “Use” Position 2. “Shipping” Position Figure 2-1 Unlocking the Scanner...
CONNECTING THE CABLE Connect the power cable and signal cable as shown below. 1. Scanner 2. Power Adapter 3. D25P Cable 4. PC Parallel Port 5. Printer Cable Figure 2-2 Scanner cable connection...
DOCUMENT PLACEMENT As shown in Figure 2-3, place the document on the glass with the text facing away from you. 1. Document Cover 2. Document Pad 3. Reference Mark 4. Document Board Glass 5. Reference Frame 6. Document Figure 2.3 Document Placement...
* A Microsoft Windows-compatible pointing device (e.g., mouse); * A CD ROM drive. INSTALLATION PROCEDURE Installation procedures of Avision AV626C driver are as follows: 1. Start Windows 3.1 or Windows 95. 2. Insert software CD into your CD ROM drive. In Windows 3.1 or higher 3.
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In Windows 95 or Windows NT 3. Press the Start button, choose RUN, type d:\driver\AV626C.exe (d: the CD-ROM drive in use), and then click O.K. (See Figure 3-1,3-2) 4. Follow the on-screen instructions to complete the installation. Fig. 3.1 Fig. 3.2...
UNINSTALL THE SCANNER You can uninstall the scanner by selecting Start>Programs>Avision AV626C and double clicking on the Uninstall command from the scanner .
TWAIN sources that you can choose from to bring an image into your application. Select AV626C /xx Vx.xx as the source. When you have used the dialog box to select a different source, you will need to select AV626C as the source again before you can reuse the Button scanner.
IMAGE TYPE The Button scanner provides five image types as explain in below: Line art Error Diffusion Scanning Source Halftone Gray Color Scanning Source Two scanning sources are provided- flatbed as well as transparency. Line art Line art presents the image in black and white only and there are no intermediate shades of gray in between.
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Gray (256 levels gray scale) Gray presents a 256 shades of gray in an image. Color (Internal one billion colors) The 36 bits True Color presents 16.7 million color(output) and give much more tonal range and details in a color image.
SCANNING PARAMETERS & IMAGE CONTROL Resolution Brightness Contrast Resolution: The number of dpi (dots per inch) that the scanner uses for a scan. Usually the greater the number, the higher the resolution. Yet up to a certain level, the resolution will not be visually increased but the disk space will be increased.
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Color Auto Area Auto Level Descreen Reset Matching Invert Calibration Quality Mode Speed Mode Pixel/Inch/Cm Set Gamma Image Information Auto Level: Optimizes the scanned image. Auto Area: Automatically sets the whole document as the scan area, no matter what its size. Descreen: Eliminates the Moire patterns commonly found in printed matter.
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Color Matching: Adjusts the color quality of the image to make it close to the original. This function uses default parameters to adjust the image. Resets the scanning parameters you set. Reset: Invert: The invert command reverses the brightness and the color in the image. For color images, each pixel will...
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Set Gamma: Adjusts the midtone of the image yet without losing details of the lightest and the darkest areas at the same time. Image Information: Gives related information of the scanned image.
SCANNING Previews your image roughly and allocates Preview: the area to be scanned. Scan: Execute the Scans action. Cancels the current job. Exit: Document Size: To designate the size of your document, just click on its icon on the margin of the preview window.
PRINTING Connect the printer cable as shown below. 1. Scanner Power Adapter 3. D25P Cable 4. PC Parallel port 4. Printer Cable Figure 5.1 Scanner Cable Connection 4-10...
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Caution: 1. Be sure to power on the scanner if you want to do pass-through printing. 2. Do not scan and print at the same time. 3. If your PC does not support EPP mode or have pass- through compatibility problem, please contact your authorized local dealer for an EPP card or an additional interface card.
5. USING VISUAL PARK BY ONE TOUCH OF THE PUSH BUTTON Visual Park: Using Visual Park, you can instantly scan and link your scanned image to the selected application without going through a couple of time-consuming steps (for example, starting the application first, then selecting TWAIN source, choosing acquire and so on).
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Starting Visual Park If the software has been installed successfully, the Visual Park Controller will show up at the lower-right corner of the taskbar. The Visual Park Controller Locate the Push buttons on the front of the scanner. Preview button Go button Select button Press any one of the three Push buttons to bring up...
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Using the Push buttons: 1) The Preview button: Press the Preview button to get a test scan image (low resolution) and to allocate your final scan area. 2) The Select button: Press the Select button to select your application. 3) The Go button: Press the Go button to scan and link to the selected application.
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Note: 1. You can also start Visual Park without pressing the Push button by clicking the Visual Park Controller icon and choose Restore from the pop-up menu. Choose Restore from the pop- up menu to evoke the Visual Park’s main window Or Go to the Start button and choose Programs>PaperCom Visual Park>PaperCom Visual Park.
6. MAINTENANCE Clean the Document Board Glass: As shown in Figure 5-1, wipe the scanner glass with a piece of soft clean cloth to rid the glass of dust or toner particles. 1. Document Board Glass Figure 5-1 Clean the document board glass.
TROUBLESHOOTING If you have any operational problem, please check the following troubleshooting hints. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Question: Why the scanned image always comes out to be too dark? 1) Modify the Gamma setting to 1.8 for Answer: your monitor and, when printing, set Gamma to 2.2 for your printer.
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From: [MS Text Converters] MSWorksWin=Works for Windows 2.0,C:\WINDOWS\MSAPPS\TEXTCONV\worksdos.cnv,wps Works for Dos 2.0=Works for DOS 2.0 MSAPPS\TEXTCONV\workswin.con,wps [MS Text Converters] MSWorksWin=Works for Windows 2.0,C:\WINDOWS\MSAPPS\TEXTCONV\worksdos.cnv Works for DOS 2.0=Works for DOS 2.0, C:\WINDOWS\MSAPPS\TEXTCONV\workswin.con Question: The printer does not print the documents. Why? Answer: Pass-through printing may pose a problem for some printers.
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Question: Why sometimes pass-through printing does not work at all? Answer: It may be that you fail to power on the scanner. When doing pass-through printing, please be sure to power on the scanner. Else, without power, the scanner can not transfer the printing data/signals to the printer.
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Question: Why some parallel port devices and software’s keypro do not work with the button scanner? The scanner do pass-through printing all Answer: right , but the pass-through printing may not work if you connect the parallel port with devices other than printer. Therefore, if you would like to connect some parallel port devices other than printer, please do not connect them to the same parallel port...
EC Declaration of Conformity According to EN45014 Avision Inc.. Manufacturer's Name: No. 20, Creation Road I, Manufacturer's Address: Science-Based Industrial Park, Hsin-Chu, Taiwan, R.O.C. declare that the product Model Number : AV626C conforms to the following Product Specifications: EN 50081-1 (1992)
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