How Is Color Dropout Used - Ricoh Aficio 3228C Manual

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dropped 36 percent when we applied color
dropout and resulted in a bandwidth
reduction of 40 percent. While these
figures will obviously change from form to
form, depending upon the level of color
dropout out, these figures are a guide to
the potential time and bandwidth savings
that a company can realize.

How is Color Dropout Used?

This feature can be found by selecting
Dropout Color as part of the text, text/
photo, or photo modes within the scanning
settings menu. When users choose
Dropout Color, they are provided with an
additional function offering a specific color
dropout choice.
Having selected the color dropout feature,
a user can now choose to remove red,
blue, or green from the scanned image.
This puts the device on a par with most
production scanners that generally only
offer color dropout using
those three colors. In
addition, a user can also
specify the width of the gamut
that would fall within the color
dropout. This allows for
greater flexibility when
handling forms with, for
example, bold red text would
translate to black readable
text, but light red shades,
such as background
navigation enhancements,
would be removed.
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As an extension to this, we would like to
see Ricoh take full advantage of its color
touch screen and offer users the ability to
view the color dropout files prior to data
transmission. This would allow users to
see whether the gamut range selected was
wide enough to remove all the
unnecessary color at a glance. We would
also like to see Ricoh add an ISIS driver to
their device, which would allow the device
to be compared in the same leagues as
document production scanners within
enterprise scanning workflow
environments.
Ricoh has yet again raised the bar in the
area of MFP scanning, moving beyond the
simplistic world of scan to email and scan
to desktop, and now entering the realm of
being a genuine scanning workflow
solution provider.
After selecting Dropout Color (above), another window opens,
allowing users to choose which color should be
removed from the final output (below).
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