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Avision FF-0506 User Manual

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  • Page 1 User’s Manual Regulatory model: FF-0506...
  • Page 2 Avision Inc. Material scanned...
  • Page 3 User’s Manual 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 in a residential installation.

  • Page 4: System Requirements

    System Requirements Windows IBM compatible PC 586, Pentium or higher Microsoft Windows 98 / 98SE / Me / 2000 / XP USB port 2.0 (compatible with USB 1.1) At least 100 MB of free hard disk space At least 128 MB of system memory A CD-ROM drive...

  • Page 5: Table Of Contents

    User’s Manual Table of Contents Introduction ............. 1-1 Scanner Installation..........2-1 Installing the ADF Paper Tray Unit ....2-2 Installing the Output Paper Tray.....2-6 Connecting the Cables ........2-7 2.3.1 Connecting to Power ........2-7 2.3.2 Turning on the Power.........2-7 Installing the Software ........2-8 Connecting to Computer ........2-8 Completing Your First Scan........
  • Page 6 The Color Dropout Tab ........ 4-16 4.4.1 Color Dropout Selection ......4-16 4.4.2 Other Color Dropout Options....4-17 The Paper Tab ........... 4-19 4.5.1 Cropping .............4-20 4.5.2 Other Paper Selection ......4-23 The Options Tab......... 4-27 The Setting Tab ......... 4-33 The Information Tab ........4-35 Using the Buttons ..........

  • Page 7: Introduction

    User’s Manual 1. Introduction Congratulations on your purchase of the color sheet-fed image scanner. Ambir is one of the leading companies in the world to develop high performance sheet-fed scanners. Before you install and operate the new scanner, please take a few minutes to read through this manual.
  • Page 8 Scanner Main Unit ADF (Auto Document Feeder) Paper Tray Output Paper Tray USB Cable Power Adapter Power Cord Note: 1. Only use the AC adapter (SAL124A-2410U-6 by SINO- ) included in the machine. Using other AC adapters AMERICA may damage the machine and void the warranty. Please unpack the packing carefully, and check the contents against the checklist.

  • Page 9: Scanner Installation

    User’s Manual 2. Scanner Installation Precautions Keep the scanner out of direct sunlight. Direct exposure to the sun or excessive heat may cause damage to the unit. Do not install the scanner in a humid or dusty place. Be sure to use the proper AC power source. Place the scanner securely on an even, flat surface.

  • Page 10: Installing The Adf Paper Tray Unit

    2.1 Installing the ADF Paper Tray Unit Attach the Paper Support to the ADF (Auto Document Feeder) Paper Tray. ADF Paper Paper Support Tray...
  • Page 11 User’s Manual Pull out the Paper Jam Clearing Button to open the front door to the left. Paper Jam Clearning Button Front Door...
  • Page 12 Insert four protrusions on the bottom of the ADF Paper Tray into the holes on the front of the scanner. Protrusions...
  • Page 13 User’s Manual Insert two protrusions in the middle of the ADF Paper Tray into the holes on the top of the scanner. Protrusions Holes...

  • Page 14: Installing The Output Paper Tray

    2.2 Installing the Output Paper Tray Insert the right and left protrusion of the Output Paper Tray into the holes on the front of the scanner. Scanner Holes Protrusion Output Paper Tray...

  • Page 15: Connecting The Cables

    User’s Manual 2.3 Connecting the Cables Make sure the power of scanner is off. 2.3.1 Connecting to Power Plug the small end of the power adaptor into the power jack of your scanner. Insert the other end to an appropriate power outlet.

  • Page 16: Installing The Software

    2.4 Installing the Software NOTE: 1). The Windows system CD may be required when installing on some PC’s. To ensure your computer can identify the USB scanner, please install scanner driver first before connecting the scanner to your computer. Place the supplied CD-ROM onto your CD-ROM drive. The software installation graphic appears.
  • Page 17 User’s Manual 2. The computer should detect a new USB device and prompt a “New Hardware Found” message. (Windows 9X/Windows ME) In Windows 9X or Windows ME, confirm that the “Search for a better driver.” is selected and click the “Next” button.

  • Page 18: Completing Your First Scan

    User’s Manual Completing Your First Scan Loading Your Paper 3.1.1 Notice on Using the ADF Before using the ADF, please make sure that your paper meets the following specifications: • Document(s) can range in size from 3.5 by 2 inches to 8.5 by 14 inches (Legal).

  • Page 19: Placing Your Document In The Adf Paper Tray

    3.1.2 Placing Your Document in the ADF Paper Tray Fanning Your Document Standard paper size should feed easily through the scanner. To avoid occasional paper jam when automatically feeding multiple documents, loosen the paper before loading. Document feeding Place your document with the text face down on the ADF Paper Tray.

  • Page 20: Scanning With Image Editing Software

    User’s Manual 3.2 Scanning with Image Editing Software The scanner driver is not a stand-alone program, it has to be started from within a TWAIN-compliant or plug-in software application and then the scanner driver is able to scan and load the image to your computer.
  • Page 21 Click Exit to return to the main screen and click Open Library and Photos at the upper-right corner to open your scanned image. Image Selection Box Photos...

  • Page 22: A Glance Of The Scanner Properties Dialog Box

    User’s Manual 3.2.1 A Glance of the Scanner Properties Dialog Box 1. Tab Options Choice: Image, Compression, Color Dropout, Paper, Options, Settings, Information. 2. Image Choose your image type and the side of Selection Box document you wish to scan. Options vary based on type of scanner.

  • Page 23: Using The Scanner Properties Dialog Box

    User’s Manual Using the Scanner Properties Dialog Box The Scanner Properties dialog box allows you to configure the scanner’s settings. It consists of several tabbed windows each of which will be described in this chapter. The Scanner Properties dialog box...

  • Page 24: Buttons On The Scanner Properties Dialog Box

    4.1 Buttons on the Scanner Properties Dialog Box The buttons on the Scanner Properties dialog box Buttons Description Defaults Click the Defaults button, the factory default settings will be shown on each tab. Scan After all the scan settings are satisfactory, click the Scan button to start scanning your document.
  • Page 25 User’s Manual The following table shows the default settings： Tab name Default settings Image Image：Front B&W Binarization：Dynamic Threshold Resolution：200 dpi Invert：Blank on White Scan Source：Auto Document Feeder Threshold：None Brightness：None Contrast：None Compression None Color Dropout None Paper Cropping：Automatic Deskew：Yes Orientation：Portrait OverScan：0.00 Multifeed Detection：None Unit：Inch Options...

  • Page 26: The Image Tab

    4.2 The Image Tab The Image tab allows you to choose the front side and (or) the rear side of your document, the type of image, and to set several basic scan settings. Note that except for the resolution, you can set individual scan settings for the front side and the rear side.

  • Page 27: The Image Selection Box

    User’s Manual 4.2.1 The Image Selection Box The Image Selection box includes the image type and document side option. If you wish to scan both the front side and the rear side of your color document, you can check both Front Color and Rear Color at the same time.
  • Page 28 Example 2：Scanning a two-sided color document, one in B&W(Drop Blue Color：Threshold：10, Background： 79), the other in color Side/Image Rear Front Selection Image Type Description Color Choose Color if you wish to scan a color image for your original in color. Gray Choose Gray image if your original contains actual shades of gray.

  • Page 29: Other Image Options

    User’s Manual 4.2.2 Other Image Options Binarization This is the process of converting a grayscale or color image to a bi-tonal image. There are several different methods of performing this conversion. Two of the options are Dynamic Threshold and Fixed Processing. Dynamic Threshold: Selecting Dynamic Threshold allows the scanner to dynamically evaluate each document to...
  • Page 30 Threshold Used to convert a grayscale image to a bi-tonal image. The value ranges from 0 to 255. A low threshold value produces a lighter image, and can be used to subdue backgrounds and subtle, unneeded information. A high threshold value produces a darker image, and can be used to help pick up faint images.
  • Page 31 User’s Manual Adjusts the lightness or darkness of an Brightness image. The higher the value, the brighter the image. Drag the slider to the right or left to increase or decrease the brightness. The range is from –100 to +100. Adjusts the range between the darkest and Contrast the lightest shades in the image.
  • Page 32 Resolution A good control of the resolution results a good detail of an image that scans. The resolution is measured by dots per inch (dpi). Normally, the greater the dpi number, the higher the resolution and the image file size. Be aware that greater resolution takes more time to scan, and more disk space for the scanning image.
  • Page 33 User’s Manual Invert Reverses the brightness and the colors in the image. The default setting is Black on a White background. Reverse mode is White on a Black background. For color images, each pixel will be changed into its complementary color at the command of Invert.

  • Page 34: Scanning Color Images

    Scan Choice: Source Auto Document Feeder: Used to scan multiple pages. Flatbed: Used to scan a single page. For example, pages from newspaper clipping, paper with wrinkles or curls. Flatbed (book): Used to scan several inside pages from book. Automatic: Allow the scanner automatically set its scan source.

  • Page 35: Scanning B&W Images

    User’s Manual 4.2.5 Scanning B&W images The following options are available for scanning B&W images. Binarization (Dynamic Threshold) Resolution Invert Binarization (Fix Processing) Threshold Brightness Resolution Invert 4-13...

  • Page 36: The Compression Tab

    4.3 The Compression Tab The Compression tab allows you to compress your scanned image and choose the level of compression. Bi-tonal images are normally compressed using CCITT standard called Group 4 (G4). Color and grayscale images are often compressed using JPEG technology.
  • Page 37 User’s Manual The Compression tab dialog box 4-15...

  • Page 38: The Color Dropout Tab

    The Color Dropout Tab 4.4.1 Color Dropout Selection Color Dropout tab allows you to drop either of the red, blue, or green color in your scanned image. If your image contains red color watermark or background, choose the R (Red) channel then any red watermark or background will be removed.

  • Page 39: Other Color Dropout Options

    User’s Manual 4.4.2 Other Color Dropout Options Advanced Processing provides two options that can adjust your scanned image in the best optimal result. Filter This value is used to determine the color Threshold which will be dropped out. A lower value will drop more of the selected color out, while a higher value will leave more of the selected color in.
  • Page 40 Remove Blue, Threshold: 20, Background: Remove Blue, Threshold: 20, Background Level: 210 4-18...

  • Page 41: The Paper Tab

    User’s Manual 4.5 The Paper Tab The Paper tab allows you to define values relating to image output (i.e., Auto Crop or not, Scan Area, OverScan, Multi-Feed Detection). The Paper tab dialog box 4-19...

  • Page 42: Cropping

    4.5.1 Cropping Cropping allows you to capture a portion of the document being scanned. Choice: Automatic, Fixed to Transport, EOP (End of Page) Detection. Options Description Automatic Automatic adjusts the cropping window according to different document sizes. Use this option for batches of mixed-sized documents.
  • Page 43 User’s Manual The following options are only available when Fixed to Transport is selected. X-Offset — the distance from the left end of the scanner to the left edge of the scanning area. Y-Offset — the position from the top end of the document to the top end of the scanning area.
  • Page 44 Example： Redefine your scan area ( x-offset: 2.25 inches；y-offset:1.13 inches) Scan Area Display window After Fixed to Original Transport The Redefined Scan Area 4-22...

  • Page 45: Other Paper Selection

    User’s Manual 4.5.2 Other Paper Selection Deskew Use this option to automatically deskew a document. Note: If the skew angle is too great, some of the image may be cut off. Scan Area Choose your desired paper size with the drop-down list box. Or you may select a custom paper size by clicking the Scan Area box and then click Add to include in the choice.
  • Page 46 Multi-Feed Detection Multi-Feed Detection allows you to detect overlapped document that go through the auto document feeder. Multi-Feed usually occurs due to stapled documents, adhesives on documents, or electro-statically charged document. Note： The availability of the function varies based on type of scanner. Additional Length Detection Additional Length Detection allows you to define the length of document being multi-fed.
  • Page 47 User’s Manual Example：Additional Length Detection：Set Additional Length to be 2.02 inches 2.02” There are three options available if Multi-Feed is detected. Stop Scanning after Multi-Feed If this is selected, the scanner will stop the feeder if multi- feed is detected. Multi-Feed Alarm: If this is selected and a wave file is added, the scanner will produce a sound alarm if multi-feed is detected.
  • Page 48 How to add the sound alarm： 1. Click the Browse button on the right side of the speaker icon. The Open dialog box appears. 2. Choose your wave file. 3. Click the Open button. The wave file is added. Units Defines the primary measurement system.

  • Page 49: The Options Tab

    User’s Manual 4.6 The Options Tab The Options tab allows you to set following additional image processing settings. The Option tab dialog box 4-27...
  • Page 50 Flip Side This option allows you to select the Rotation orientation of the double-sided documents been fed and if “fanfold” is selected, the image of the reverse side will be rotated to 180 degrees. This is applied to double-sided documents which are viewed in portrait (height is greater than width) but are sometime fed into the scanner in landscape (width is greater than height)
  • Page 51 User’s Manual Rotate Image Choose the rotation angle from the drop down list if you wish to rotate your scanned image. Choice: None, 90°CW(clockwise), 90°CCW(counter clockwise), 180°. Original Rotate 90°CW Rotate Rotate 180° 90°CCW Blank Page Check if you wish to remove the Removal blank page and move the slider to the left or right to your desired...
  • Page 52 Edge Check White or Black if you wish to add white or Fill black edge on the border of your scanned image. Enter the value from 0 to 5 mm. Default value is 0. Original Edge Fill: 5mm (Black) Image Check the Mirror box if you wish to reverse the Control right and left side of your image.
  • Page 53 User’s Manual Background This option allows you to set your scan Setting background. Choice: White Background, Black Background. *This option varies based on type of scanner and is available for the front page in the ADF (auto document feeder) only. For the rear page, only the white background is available.
  • Page 54 Black Background 4-32...

  • Page 55: The Setting Tab

    User’s Manual 4.7 The Setting Tab The Setting tab allows you to set the following settings: The Setting tab dialog box Energy Saving Check the Enable Energy Saver box Control and move the slider to the right to set the amount of time to start the energy saver after your last action.
  • Page 56 Show Warning Check to show the warning messages Message such as “ADF pad count exceeds 50,000 scans (the number varies based on type of scanner). Please replace the ADF pad and reset the pad count.” Save Settings Check to save your scanner properties after Closing settings after leaving the dialog box.

  • Page 57: The Information Tab

    User’s Manual 4.8 The Information Tab The Information tab displays the following system and scanner information. The Information tab dialog box The “Report” button： If you encounter any error message while using the scanner, click the Report button. A report.txt file (C:\AVxxx) will be generated.
  • Page 58 The “Reset Pad Count” button」： After scanning approximately 50,000 pages (the number varies based on type of scanner) through the Auto Document Feeder (ADF), the ADF pad may be worn out and you may experience problems with document feeding. In this case, it is highly recommended to replace the ADF pad with a new one.

  • Page 59: Using The Buttons

    User’s Manual Using the Buttons The following picture shows the 3 buttons and 1 function screen on the scanner. The Scan button The Cancel button Function-display screen Function selector...
  • Page 60 To Start Button Capture, After the scanner driver is successfully installed, the Button Capture program should be also installed to your computer. The Button capture is a very useful program which you can customize the button’s function. On your Windows system screen, click Start>Programs>Scanner AVXXX (your scanner model)>Preferences to display the Button Capture dialog box as shown below.
  • Page 61 User’s Manual The default settings of Function 1 to 5: Function Default Settings Number Function 1 A4, 200 dpi, Gray, JPEG, C:\temp, Scan to File Function 2 A4, 200 dpi, True Color, PDF, C:\temp, Scan to File Function 3 A4, 200 dpi, True Color, JPEG, C:\temp, Scan to File Function 4 A4, 200 dpi, LineArt, TIFF, C:\temp, Scan...
  • Page 62 There are 9 arbitrary item names in the Function Items area, in which all of the 9 item names are changeable. From top to bottom, these arbitrary item names correspond to the 1~9 digits displayed on the Function Screen. In other words, you can pre-define up to 9 different functions for the Scan button, and then select one of them from the Function Screen on the scanner.
  • Page 63 User’s Manual The following steps show how to use the one touch button on the scanner: ) on the 1. By pressing the Function-Select button ( scanner, select one of the digit numbers in the Function Display screen, which corresponds to its pre-defined function name.

  • Page 64: Maintenance

    User’s Manual Maintenance Cleaning the ADF From time to time the ADF pad and feeding rollers may become contaminated with ink, toner particles or paper dust. In this case the scanner may not feed documents smoothly. If this occurs please follow the cleaning procedures to return your machine to its original state.
  • Page 65 Paper Jam Release Button Feeding Roller Cleaning Direction Front Door...

  • Page 66: Cleaning The Calibration Area

    User’s Manual 6.2 Cleaning the Calibration Area As shown below, clean the calibration area (white glass) with an air-blower or a small brush to rid the board of dust or dirt. Please handle with care and dexterity. Calibration Area ADF Front Door...

  • Page 67: Replacing The Adf Snap-In Pad

    6.3 Replacing the ADF Snap-in Pad After scanning approximately 20,000 pages through the ADF, the pad may be worn out and you may experience problems with document feeding. In this case, it is highly recommended to replace the pad module with a new one. For ordering the pad module, please consult your nearest dealer and follow the procedure below to replace it.

  • Page 68: Replacing The Adf Roller

    User’s Manual 6.4 Replacing the ADF Roller Please follow the procedure below to replace the ADF roller. For ordering the ADF roller, please consult your nearest dealer. After replacing the ADF roller, be sure to click the “Reset Roller Count” button in the Scanner Properties dialog box to reset the roller count.
  • Page 69 Hold and press the roller in the arrow direction as indicated to remove the roller. ADF Roller Note: To install a new ADF roller, please follow the reverse order of the disassembling procedure.

  • Page 70: Troubleshooting

    User’s Manual 7. Troubleshooting 7.1 Clearing a Paper Jam In the event of a paper jam, follow the procedures below to remove the paper: Press the ADF Release Button on the left side. Gently open the Scanner Front Door to the left. Carefully pull the paper out of the ADF unit.

  • Page 71: Questions And Answers

    7.2 Questions and Answers Question: Paper becomes jammed during scanning. Answer: 1) Open the scanner front door. 2) Pull out the jammed paper carefully. 3) Close the scanner front door. Question: More than one sheet of paper are fed into the scanner.
  • Page 72 User’s Manual Question: Why is it my scanned image always comes out too dark? Answer: 1) Modify the Gamma setting to 1.8 for your monitor and, when printing, set Gamma to 2.2 for your printer. 2) Use the Brightness setting of the TWAIN user interface to get a brighter image.

  • Page 73: Specifications

    User’s Manual 8. Specifications All specifications are subject to change without notice. Model Number： FF-0506 Scanner Type: Desktop sheet-fed Optical Resolution: 600 dpi * 1200 dpi Scanning Modes: Black & White Gray scale Color ADF Capacity: Up to 50 pages...

  • Page 74: Index

    User’s Manual Index Ａ Ｆ 3-17 Additional Length Detection, Filter Threshold, Ｇ Ｂ 3-14 B&W, 3-6 Gray, 3-6 3-17 Background Level, Ｉ Binarization Dynamic Threshold, Fixed 3-11 Invert, Processing, Ｊ 3-28 Blank Page Removal, 3-14 Brightness, JPEG, Ｃ Ｍ Color, 3-6 3-29 Mirror, Color Dropout...

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