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XEROX ® is a trademark of Xerox Corporation in the United States and/or other countries and are used under license. DocuMate is a trademark of Xerox Corporation used under license. All other Xerox product names and product numbers mentioned in this publication are trademarks of Xerox Corporation.
Welcome Your new Xerox DocuMate 262 scanner can quickly scan single- sided or double-sided stacks of color and black-and-white documents and place their images on your computer. What’s in the Box Before proceeding, check the contents of the box. If items are missing or damaged, contact the dealer where you purchased the scanner.
Welcome The Xerox DocuMate 262 Scanner Paper guide LED Number Destination Selector button Simplex button Duplex button Status light Output tray ADF cover release Power switch USB port Power jack Paper guide—Holds documents in place. Adjusts to fit the document width.
Documentation Your scanner is delivered with the following documentation: • Quick Install Guide—abbreviated installation instructions. • DocuMate 262 Scanner User’s Guide—on the Installation CD; contains detailed installation, scanning, configuration, and maintenance information. • ScanSoft PaperPort User’s Guide—on the Installation CD;...
2. Carefully remove the protective foam from the ADF cover release, then press the release and open the automatic document feeder cover. ADF Cover Release 3. Carefully remove any foam particles that may have gotten inside the document feeder, and close the cover. DocuMate 262 Scanner User’s Guide...
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5. Insert the pins on each side of the output tray into the holes on the scanner. 6. Flip open the extension on the output tray so it is fully extended. 7. Proceed to “Step 2: Install the Software.” DocuMate 262 Scanner User’s Guide...
Make sure the CD drive’s door is completely shut. • Open Windows Explorer and double-click the icon for your CD-ROM drive. From the list of files on the CD, double-click the file named START32.EXE. 3. On the installation menu, select Install Products. DocuMate 262 Scanner User’s Guide...
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PaperPort and install PaperPort 9.0 while retaining all of your PaperPort files. 7. On the License Agreement window, read the ScanSoft license agreement. If you accept the terms, select I accept the terms in the license agreement, and then click Next. DocuMate 262 Scanner User’s Guide...
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13. At the Installshield Wizard Completed window, click Finish. 14. On the Welcome to the One Touch 4.0 Setup Wizard window, click Next. 15. On the Xerox License Agreement window, read the license agreement. If you accept the terms, select I Agree, and click Next.
Step 3: Connect and Power On the Scanner Connect the power supply and power cord, and then turn the power on. To connect your DocuMate 262 scanner: 1. Plug the power supply into the power port on the scanner. NOTE: Only use the power supply (SA60-24 made by Sino- American) included with your scanner.
Installation Step 4: Connect the USB Cable The DocuMate 262 scanner connects to any available USB port. Check your computer’s manual for USB port locations. NOTE: You can connect the scanner to your computer while the computer is running. You do not have to shut down your computer.
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If you removed the CD from the CD drive and want to install other software, reinsert the CD into the drive. In addition to installing the other software from the CD, you can also view and print the User Guides. DocuMate 262 Scanner User’s Guide...
Your RegID is very important because you will need it when accessing free telephone support, or checking for online updates. 4. Write down your RegID below so you will always know where to find it. RegID:_________________________________ DocuMate 262 Scanner User’s Guide...
2. Load the documents with their tops into the automatic document feeder. For Simplex (one-sided) scans, load the documents face down. For Duplex (two-sided) scans, the documents can be face up or down because both sides are scanned. DocuMate 262 Scanner User’s Guide...
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Cancel Pause button button To Cancel scanning, click the Cancel button. To pause the scanning, click the Pause button. It will change to a Resume button. Click it to resume scanning. DocuMate 262 Scanner User’s Guide...
See “Configuring the One Touch Buttons” on page 20 to reset the settings. 2. Click the close boxes on the One Touch Button Panel and the Properties window to close them. DocuMate 262 Scanner User’s Guide...
You can reconfigure and rename the buttons for your specific scanning requirements. The scanner begins scanning. Then, the scanned images appear in the Destination Application, just as they would if you scanned with the Simplex or Duplex scanner buttons. DocuMate 262 Scanner User’s Guide...
Clicking the icon in either view starts the scanner scanning using the button’s settings. 4. To cycle through the nine buttons, click the arrows on the right side of the panel. Click these arrows to cycle through the 9 buttons. DocuMate 262 Scanner User’s Guide...
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Sketches, and the Destination Application to Microsoft Paint, or some other drawing program. See “Configuring the One Touch Buttons” on page 20 to change the settings of the buttons on the One Touch Button Panel. DocuMate 262 Scanner User’s Guide...
In addition to scanning from the scanner buttons and the One Touch Button Panel, you can scan directly from PaperPort and other software applications. See the sections “Scanning from PaperPort,” “Scanning with the Windows Image Acquisition,” and “Scanning with the ISIS Interface,” for details. DocuMate 262 Scanner User’s Guide...
CD, scanning and converting text directly into an HTML web page, and scanning with optical character recognition (OCR) that turns a scanned image into text that you can edit. DocuMate 262 Scanner User’s Guide...
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DocuMate 262 scanner. For example, on the figure below, the option “Use Document Feeder” is selected and “grayed out” because the DocuMate 262 is an ADF scanner and always uses the document feeder, so there’s no reason for you to select it.
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The button names indicate their file types. See “Selecting Page Format Options” on page 31 for more about the formats. Options tab—displays a window for selecting options related to the selected destination application for the scanned image. DocuMate 262 Scanner User’s Guide...
OCR (such as Text, RTF, Word, sPDF, or nPDF), the text in scanned images is automatically converted to word processing text. See “Scanning with Optical Character Recognition (OCR)” on page 46 for details. 3. From the Select Configuration list, select a scan configuration. DocuMate 262 Scanner User’s Guide...
Click a Destination Application. Click the Properties button A One Touch 4.0 Link Properties dialog box appears for the type of Destination Application you selected, and the available options are for that type of application. DocuMate 262 Scanner User’s Guide...
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2. Click OK. 3. Click OK or Apply on the One Touch Properties window. When PaperPort opens after you finish scanning, the thumbnails of your scanned documents are on the Desktop in that folder. DocuMate 262 Scanner User’s Guide...
This could occur if you scanned a photograph with a One Touch button set for text applications. Show message if text recognition failed—A message will appear on the screen if the OCR reader does not detect text in the image. DocuMate 262 Scanner User’s Guide...
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The boxes you select here determine the Page Format icons that appear on the One Touch Properties window for that group of applications. 5. Click the Add button. 6. Click OK or Apply on the One Touch Properties window. DocuMate 262 Scanner User’s Guide...
2. To add another application to the list, click the Add Application button. See the steps on page 27 to add an application to the list. 3. Click OK. 4. Click OK or Apply on the One Touch Properties window. DocuMate 262 Scanner User’s Guide...
Show message when ready to burn 5" CD (700MB), should be selected. You’ll see a message when it’s time to click the Burn to CD button. 4. Click OK. 5. Click OK or Apply on the One Touch Properties window. DocuMate 262 Scanner User’s Guide...
4. If you need to set or change any internet options for AOL click the Internet Options button. The Windows Internet Options Control Panel appears. See your Windows documentation and AOL user manual for the settings on the Windows Control Panel. DocuMate 262 Scanner User’s Guide...
BMP and TIFF are standard image file formats generally used if you want to do additional image processing, such as photo touch-up or color correction. Both of those file formats tend to be larger than the JPEG format. DocuMate 262 Scanner User’s Guide...
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JPG or PDF selected as the Page Format are not affected, so you can set the JPEG or PDF file size/image quality independently for each button. 4. Click OK or Apply on the One Touch Properties window. DocuMate 262 Scanner User’s Guide...
1. Select the Destination Application. 2. Right-click on the text format icon. A menu appears. The following figure shows samples for different formats. Example menu for the Example menu for the DOC text format. nPDF text format. DocuMate 262 Scanner User’s Guide...
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The OCR Options provide a series of selections for the OCR feature when you scan text. This menu option is only available if you have installed OmniPage Pro 12 on your computer. See “Selecting OCR Options” on page 47 for details. DocuMate 262 Scanner User’s Guide...
The button is now renamed. Selecting Options for a Button The One Touch Options determine the types of Destination Applications available for a button, as well as the location of the files of your scanned items. DocuMate 262 Scanner User’s Guide...
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Select this option if you want OCR processing to convert your scanned documents to text that you can edit. See “Scanning with Optical Character Recognition (OCR)” on page 46 for more about OCR. DocuMate 262 Scanner User’s Guide...
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.doc or .jpg. If you also want to group them by date you can choose the week and month options. 5. Click OK to save the options for the selected button. DocuMate 262 Scanner User’s Guide...
If you want to start from the settings of another configuration, select the configuration, then click the Copy button. If the Scan Settings tab is not selected, click it. 4. On the Scan Configuration Properties dialog box, type a name. DocuMate 262 Scanner User’s Guide...
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Brightness and Contrast—Sometimes an item is scanned with the brightness and contrast set too light or too dark. For example, a note written with a light pencil may need to be scanned darker to improve legibility. DocuMate 262 Scanner User’s Guide...
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For single-sided scans, the scan area is the size of the image. For double-sided scans, the scan area is the size of the larger of the two areas on the front and back of the page. DocuMate 262 Scanner User’s Guide...
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Skip Blank Originals—Skips pages that are completely blank. Typically you use this option when you will scan a stack of two-sided pages which have a number of blank sides. This option is only available for Duplex scanning. DocuMate 262 Scanner User’s Guide...
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As you do, the image changes to show the effects of the new settings. 10. Click OK to save the new configuration. It will now appear in the list of Scan Configurations on the One Touch Properties window for the appropriate Destination applications. DocuMate 262 Scanner User’s Guide...
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Advanced—click to see additional settings for the device. The dialog that appears is specific to the device. For example, if the device is your printer, the dialog box is your printer’s setup settings. 2. Click OK or Apply. DocuMate 262 Scanner User’s Guide...
3. To delete the configuration, click the Delete button. 4. To edit the configuration, click the Edit button. The Scan Configuration Properties dialog box opens for that configuration. 5. Edit the settings and click OK. 6. Click OK to close the dialog box. DocuMate 262 Scanner User’s Guide...
Windows Image Acquisition” on page 83. NOTE: The WIA option is only available if your computer is running Microsoft Windows XP or ME. 5. Click OK or Apply on the One Touch Properties window. DocuMate 262 Scanner User’s Guide...
You must have installed the OmniPage Pro 12 software on your computer in order to use OCR with the One Touch software and your DocuMate 262 scanner. One Touch and OmniPage Pro 12 work together to combine scanning with OCR processing into one integrated step.
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Applications that use the text format as their file type. 3. Select the Destination Application to get one of the text format file types as the page format. 4. Right-click on the page format icon to see the menu. DocuMate 262 Scanner User’s Guide...
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OCR proofreading process to recognize as legitimate words. For example, if you scan documents with highly technical terms not found in typical dictionaries, you can add them to your personal dictionary. You DocuMate 262 Scanner User’s Guide...
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OCR process to use to recognize text. However, not all of the fonts may be selected for the OCR process. Using Font Matching you can select the fonts on your computer that match the fonts in your documents. DocuMate 262 Scanner User’s Guide...
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The choices are After last page, After current page, Before current page, and Before first page. Automatically prompt for more pages—Select this option if the document is too big to fit into the scanner’s paper guide. DocuMate 262 Scanner User’s Guide...
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8. Click the Format tab and choose the options you want from the Format window. Note that as you select formats, the image changes to represent the selection so you can see, at a glance, what the layout will look like. DocuMate 262 Scanner User’s Guide...
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This is done wherever possible with column and indent settings, but not with text boxes or frames. Text will then flow from one column to the other, which does not happen when text boxes are present. DocuMate 262 Scanner User’s Guide...
3. Select a Destination Application that uses a text format as the page format. 4. Right-click on the text format icon. 5. Choose the Searchable PDF or Normal PDF option for the page format. DocuMate 262 Scanner User’s Guide...
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The Find dialog box appears. 12. Enter the text you want to find, and click the Find button. See the Adobe Acrobat user manual for more about finding text in a PDF file, or about editing PDF text. DocuMate 262 Scanner User’s Guide...
Scan and Burn to a CD If you have a CD burner attached to your computer, you can scan directly from your DocuMate 262 scanner onto a CD. This feature is available only on computers running Windows XP. To scan and burn to a CD: 1.
To scan with event forwarding: 1. Open the One Touch Properties window. 2. Using the arrows, choose a button to use for the event forwarding. DocuMate 262 Scanner User’s Guide...
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A dialog box appears for you to select the application to use for scanning. 7. Select the application in the box and click OK. Now the application you selected opens and you can continue the scanning from that application’s TWAIN interface. DocuMate 262 Scanner User’s Guide...
Microsoft Explorer as one of its Destination Applications. 3. Select Microsoft Explorer as the Destination Application. 4. Choose HTML as the Page Format. Choose HTML 5. Choose a Scan Configuration. 6. Click Apply or OK. DocuMate 262 Scanner User’s Guide...
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If you want to see what the page will look like on your web site, click on it. 9. You can now use Microsoft Internet Explorer or other application to post the document to your web page as you would any other HTML page. DocuMate 262 Scanner User’s Guide...
Button 7 is on the panel, then click Button 7. Your scanned pages are stored in the location that you specified on the One Touch 4.0 Link Properties window. Your scanned documents will be stored at this location. DocuMate 262 Scanner User’s Guide...
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6. Click Apply or OK. 7. Now start scanning using Button 7 (or other button you set up for archiving). When scanning is finished, the documents are saved in the text file format and in the location you specified. DocuMate 262 Scanner User’s Guide...
The Hardware icon If the Hardware View of the panel is open you can also right- click on the DM262 icon. The Hardware Properties dialog box appears and shows information about your Xerox DocuMate 262 scanner. DocuMate 262 Scanner User’s Guide...
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To turn the lamp on and off manually without turning off power to the scanner, click the Lamp On or Lamp Off buttons. To return the scanner to its factory settings, click Reset Device. 4. Click OK to save the changes and close the dialog box. DocuMate 262 Scanner User’s Guide...
NOTE: When scanning, the Basic Interface or Advanced Interface opens right away (without opening PaperPort first) if the button you’re using to scan is set to Configure Before Scan, and the selected option is TWAIN. DocuMate 262 Scanner User’s Guide...
2. Click the Scan icon on the PaperPort command bar. The Folders pane (which shows folders for organizing your scanned images) is replaced by the Scan pane. Scan pane Choose Xerox DocuMate 262 from here DocuMate 262 Scanner User’s Guide...
Scanning from PaperPort 3. From the Scanner list, choose Xerox DocuMate 262. 4. In the “Scan what?” section, choose to scan a Document or Photograph. If you want to change the format of the scanned item’s file name or file type before you start scanning, click Settings. The default file type for documents is .pdf and the default for...
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For example, to name your scanned items Photograph, type the word Photograph in the box. From then on, each scanned item is named Photograph and is numbered sequentially, Photograph (1), Photograph (2), and so on. DocuMate 262 Scanner User’s Guide...
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The Good Quality and Lower Quality options produce reasonably good images. To select your own option, click Custom and drag the slider. Click OK. DocuMate 262 Scanner User’s Guide...
Then just click the Scan button. 4. Adjust the brightness, contrast, and resolution until the picture is what you want. You can also change the picture type again, for example, from color to grayscale. DocuMate 262 Scanner User’s Guide...
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The page counter underneath the thumbnail name shows which page you’re viewing. • The small icon at the bottom right corner of the thumbnail image indicates the file format of the scanned item. DocuMate 262 Scanner User’s Guide...
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To open the Help Topics window, press the F1 key or choose PaperPort Help from the Help menu. You can also refer also to the PaperPort Getting Started Guide and PaperPort User’s Guide on the CD. DocuMate 262 Scanner User’s Guide...
Click the - (minus) sign to collapse the list. • Black&White is for letters, memos, pen and ink drawings, and other black and white material. This setting produces the smallest file size for scanned items. DocuMate 262 Scanner User’s Guide...
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Scan button. A scan progress window opens. When scanning is finished, a thumbnail of the scanned image appears on the PaperPort desktop. If you’re scanning multiple pages, they appear as PaperPort stacks. DocuMate 262 Scanner User’s Guide...
Color Configurations. 2. Click a setting in the list of settings, or click its corresponding button on the right side of the Advanced Interface. Resolution Brightness/Contrast Color (Gamma, Saturation, and Hue) Scan Size DocuMate 262 Scanner User’s Guide...
(dpi). The higher the resolution, the finer the details, however, higher dpi settings also take longer to scan and produce larger files sizes. Usually the higher resolution settings are used for precision work, such as photographs or fine artwork. DocuMate 262 Scanner User’s Guide...
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You can also type a number directly into the resolution setting box, or click the up and down arrows to increase or decrease the setting. The resolution settings on your DocuMate 262 scanner range from 50 dpi to 600 dpi.
You can also type a number directly into the brightness or contrast setting boxes, or click the up and down arrows next to the box to increase or decrease the setting. 3. Click Reset to return the settings to their original numbers DocuMate 262 Scanner User’s Guide...
You can also preview the item and use the Auto Trim option to automatically sense the edges of the page, and eliminate the sections outside of the edges. DocuMate 262 Scanner User’s Guide...
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3. When the trimmed area is what you want, replace the page that you used to get the auto trim area in step 1 above. 4. Click Scan. If you are scanning multiple pages, they are all scanned with the same auto trim area. DocuMate 262 Scanner User’s Guide...
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5. If you want to remove the selected area and start over, click Remove on the Scan Info box. NOTE: Clicking Remove causes the entire 8.5" by 14" area to be selected. DocuMate 262 Scanner User’s Guide...
You cannot change the settings of the preset profiles in the Advanced Interface. However you can create new profiles and save them for future use. To create a new profile: 1. On the Advanced Interface, select one of the preset profiles, for example, Black&White Configurations/Custom. DocuMate 262 Scanner User’s Guide...
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To change or delete a profile you created: 1. Select your profile from the configuration list. 2. Make changes to the profile as needed, and then click Save. 3. If you want to delete the selected profile, click Delete. DocuMate 262 Scanner User’s Guide...
2. Click the Scan icon on the PaperPort command bar. The Folders pane is replaced by the Scan pane. Scan pane 3. From the Scanner list, select WIA-XEROX DocuMate 262. 4. In the “Scan what?” section, choose to scan a Document or Photograph.
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12. Preview the image again. When you are satisfied with the image, click the Scan button. If the Single page items check box is selected on the Scan pane, the scanned item appears as a thumbnail on the PaperPort desktop. DocuMate 262 Scanner User’s Guide...
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To select the scanner settings before you scan: 1. On the scan window, click Adjust the quality of the scanned picture. The Advanced Properties dialog box opens. DocuMate 262 Scanner User’s Guide...
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3. Click OK. The Custom Settings button is now set to scan with the options you selected. If you want to reset the settings and start over, click Reset. DocuMate 262 Scanner User’s Guide...
ISIS is selected by right-clicking on the Configure Before Scan configuration and selecting it from the menu. Right-click on Configure Before Scan to get the menu, and choose ISIS to use it as the interface to configure before scan. DocuMate 262 Scanner User’s Guide...
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GrayScale in case you decide to scan with it instead. 4. When you’re ready to scan, replace the preview page in its original position in your document and then press Scan All. The document is scanned with the new scan settings. DocuMate 262 Scanner User’s Guide...
Black and White, the contrast option does not apply. Resolution—Click the menu arrow and choose a resolution (dpi). Your DocuMate 262 scanner can scan at up to 600 dpi. Page—Click the menu arrow and choose a page size. Your DocuMate 262 scanner can scan a page up to 8.5"...
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Dither selection so you can see which one is best for scanning. Dots per inch—Click the menu arrow and choose a resolution (dpi). Your DocuMate 262 scanner can scan at up to 600 dpi. DocuMate 262 Scanner User’s Guide...
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Scanning from PaperPort Page Size—Click the menu arrow and choose a page size. Your DocuMate 262 scanner can scan a page up to 8.5" by 14". Brightness—Drag the sliders or click the arrows to the right or left to adjust the brightness in small increments. Click the buttons Darken, Normal, or Lighten to move the slide in larger steps.
Xerox DocuMate 262 scanner. The Scanner Selection dialog box will then appear. 2. Select Xerox DocuMate 262 from the list of scanners and click Your scanner is then ready to work with the QuickScan 3.0 ISIS driver.
3. Wipe the feed roller from side to side. Rotate the roller to clean its entire surface. 4. Wipe the pad from top to bottom. Be careful not to snag the swab on the springs on either side of the pad. 5. Close the cover when you’re finished. DocuMate 262 Scanner User’s Guide...
2. Remove the jammed paper and close the cover. To reduce the number of paper jams, smooth and straighten the paper before scanning and adjust the guides to the paper size. DocuMate 262 Scanner User’s Guide...
Problems with documents feeding into the ADF is an indication that the pad spring may be wearing out. See the “Xerox DocuMate 262 Scanner Parts List” on page 102 for ordering information. To replace the ADF Pad assembly: 1.
Start the PaperPort software and click the Scan icon, and then make sure DocuMate 262 is selected as the scanner. Problem: During installation I got the error message: PaperPort Installation is not complete. What do I do? The installation procedure was not successful.
The LED blinks back and forth between “E” and the error code number (such as 6). The red light flashes the number of times as the error code (6 in this example). The table below describes the error codes. DocuMate 262 Scanner User’s Guide...
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See the steps on page 62 to turn the lamp on and off. Re- boot your computer. If the problem persists, contact Xerox Technical Support. Paper jam See “Clearing Paper Jams” on page 94. DocuMate 262 Scanner User’s Guide...
Maintenance Uninstalling Your Scanner To uninstall the DocuMate 262 scanner, remove the One Touch software first, and then remove PaperPort, or other scanner software. Step 1: Uninstalling the Scanner and One Touch Software 1. On the Windows taskbar, click Start, point to Settings, and then click Control Panel.
4. A message window opens, asking if you are sure you want to remove PaperPort 9.0 from your computer. Click Yes. The PaperPort software is removed. 5. Close all open windows and restart your computer. DocuMate 262 Scanner User’s Guide...
Maintenance Xerox DocuMate 262 Scanner Parts List Please use the following part names and numbers when ordering replacements for your scanner. Part Name Part Number Paper Guide 57-0104-000 Output Tray 57-0105-000 ADF Pad 57-0103-000 AC Power Cord 35-0071-000 Power Supply...
Stamps and other representatives of value, of whatever denomination, which have been or may be issued under any Act of Congress. 2. Adjusted Compensation Certificates for Veterans of the World Wars. 3. Obligations or Securities of any Foreign Government, Bank, or Corporation. DocuMate 262 Scanner User’s Guide...
2. Obligations or securities of a government or bank. 3. Exchequer bill paper or revenue paper. 4. The public seal of Canada or of a province, or the seal of a public body or authority in Canada, or of a court of law. DocuMate 262 Scanner User’s Guide...
Increase the separation between the equipment and receiver. Connect the equipment into an outlet on a circuit different from that to which the receiver is connected. Consult the dealer or an experienced radio/TV technician for help. DocuMate 262 Scanner User’s Guide...
ASK-XEROX) to determine whether this Xerox product is part of the program. If your product is not part of the Xerox program and you are managing its disposal, please note that the product may contain lead and other materials whose disposal may be regulated due to environmental considerations.
Color 39, 73 Format and Page(s) 24 color hue 78 options 78 Color Document 24 gamma 42, 78 Color Document button 89 grayed out options 21, 89 color filter 42 GrayScale 39, 73 Comma Delimited 34 DocuMate 262 Scanner User’s Guide...
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PDF 32, 37 PDF file size 32 Picture type 86 power saving 63 Microsoft Internet Explorer 59 Preview button 69, 84 Microsoft Outlook 30 preview image 73 Moire Patterns 41, 76 Preview One button 88 monitor 3 DocuMate 262 Scanner User’s Guide...
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