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- Page 1 ScanCopier User's Manual (D/N 250-0183-E Rev. B) Avision Inc.
- Page 2 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.
- Page 3 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 this material.
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Page 4: Fcc Radio Frequency Interference Statement
FCC Radio Frequency Interference Statement This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a class A digital device, pursuant to Part 15 of the FCC rules. These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference when the equipment is operated in a commercial environment. -
Page 5: Table Of Contents
Table of Contents 1. INTRODUCTION............1-1 2. SCANCOPIER INSTALLATION.........2-1 2.1 PRECAUTIONS................. 2-1 2.2 UNLOCKING THE SCANCOPIER ........... 2-2 2.3 CONNECTING THE CABLE ............ 2-3 2.3.1 CONNECTING SCANCOPIER TO WORK AS A COPIER ....................2-3 2.3.2 CONNECTING SCANCOPIER TO WORK AS A SCANNER .................... -
Page 6: Introduction
INTRODUCTION Congratulations on your purchase of Avision ScanCopier. Introducing an innovative digital solution, ScanCopier produces better printing quality and is free maintenance compared with a traditional copy machine. Its high printing quality, free maintenance and affordability makes ScanCopier the best copier solution for office. - Page 8 Package Contents 1. Software CD 2. Power Adapter 3. ScanCopier Cable 4. Quick Installation Guide 5. ScanCopier main unit...
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Page 9: Scancopier Installation
2. SCANCOPIER INSTALLATION PRECAUTIONS Ÿ Keep the ScanCopier out of direct sunlight. Direct exposure to the sun or excessive heat may cause damage to the unit. Ÿ Do not install the ScanCopier in a humid or dusty place. Ÿ Be sure to use the proper AC power source. Ÿ... -
Page 10: Unlocking The Scancopier
UNLOCKING THE SCANCOPIER To protect the scanning head from damage during shipment, the ScanCopier is designed with a lock switch under the main unit. Therefore, before using the ScanCopier, it is required to unlock ScanCopier by moving the lock switch to the Use position.(See Figure 2-1) 1. -
Page 11: Connecting The Cable
CONNECTING THE CABLE 2.3.1 CONNECTING SCANCOPIER TO WORK AS A COPIER Connect the power cable and signal cable as shown below. 1. ScanCopier main unit 2. “To Printer” port 3. Printer Cable 4. Power Jack 5. Power Adapter 6. Printer Figure 2-2 Connect ScanCopier to a printer... -
Page 12: Connecting Scancopier To Work As Ascanner
2.3.2 CONNECTING SCANCOPIER TO WORK AS A SCANNER 1. ScanCopier main unit 2. Power Adapter 3. ScanCopier Cable 4. PC Parallel Port Printer Cable Figure 2-3 ScanCopier Cable Connection... -
Page 13: Document Placement
DOCUMENT PLACEMENT As shown in Figure 2-4, place the document on the glass with the text facing away from you. 1. Document Cover 2. Home Position Mark 3. Document 4. Document Glass 5. Control Panel Figure 2.4 Document Placement... -
Page 14: Scancopier Driver Installation
SCANCOPIER DRIVER INSTALLATION To run ScanCopier at optimum speed, the following minimum requirements are recommended: • IBM compatible PC 386/486, Pentium or later; • Microsoft Windows 3.1,Windows 95, Windows • One printer port available (enhanced parallel port recommended); • Megabytes of available hard disk space for installation;... - Page 15 In Windows 95 or Windows NT 3. Press the Start button, choose RUN, type d:\driver\scancopy.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...
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Page 16: Uninstall The Scancopier Driver
3.2 UNINSTALL THE SCANCOPIER DRIVER You can uninstall the ScanCopier driver by selecting Start>Programs>ScanCopier and double clicking on the Uninstall command from the ScanCopier. -
Page 17: Using Scancopier As A Copier
4. USING SCANCOPIER AS A COPIER THE CONTROL PANEL Message Display window: Display current settings. Background Remove: Set “Background Remove” on to print your document without the background color or off to print your document with the background color. Paper Size: Select your output paper size from A4, Letter, or Legal. Lighter/Darker: Lighten or darken your image. - Page 18 Copy: Press to start copy. Power/Copy LED: The LED indicator turns green when power is on and turns flashing during copying. All Clear: Clear your current settings and return to the default settings. Copy Quality: Select your Copy quality: Normal (300 dpi), or Quality (600 dpi). Copy Count: Choose the number of copies from 1 to 99.
- Page 19 select other options. (For example, when you choose paper size with the Paper Size button, if the Message Display window shows A4 and you prefer Letter, you can just press the Paper Size button again to select it.) Note: (1). An item message in the Message Display Windows ending with a “∗...
- Page 20 Copy Quality Document Size Min. Printer Memory Normal Letter 1 MB Legal Size 2 MB Quality Letter Size 4 MB Legal Size 5 MB If there is not enough memory in your printer, you may probably encounter the following results: The printer does not print.
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Page 21: Befroe Making Copies
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Page 22: Making Simple Copies
4.3 MAKING SIMPLE COPIES The Operating Steps: 1. Place your original face down on the document glass. 2. Press the Copy button. The Message window displays “Copy…” and the Ready LED is flashing. 3. Within a few seconds, the copying is done. The Message window then displays “1 Copy @100%”... -
Page 23: Making Copies With Copy Features
4.4 MAKING COPIES WITH COPY FEATURES REMOVING ORIGINAL BACKGROUND If your original comes with color background, you can remove the background to sharpen your text. The Operating Steps Place your document face down on the document glass. Press the “Background remove” button. The Message window displays “Background remove on”. -
Page 24: Enlarging Or Reducing Your Original
ENLARGING OR REDUCING YOUR ORIGINAL Like a normal copier, ScanCopier also features auto enlargement/reduction function to resize your original. The Operating Steps: Place your document face down on the document glass. Press the “Reduce/Enlarge” button, the Message window displays “Ratio:100%”. Repress the button to see more options. -
Page 25: Auto Zooming Your Original
AUTO ZOOMING YOUR ORIGINAL Auto Zoom is a convenient function to resize your original without giving additional thought to whether the magnification or reduction will be larger than the existing paper size. The Operating Steps: Repeat the above Enlargement Step 1 & 2. Repress the “Enlarge/Reduce”... -
Page 26: Changing Your Copy Density
CHANGING YOUR COPY DENSITY Copy density refers to the degree of darkness which the digital copier has reproduced. There are times when your original is unsatisfactorily darker or lighter. It is a great advantage using the density feature to compensate the unsatisfactorily original. -
Page 27: Choosing Your Copy Quantity
CHOOSING YOUR COPY QUANTITY The Operating Steps: Place your original face down on the document glass. The default copy count is 1. If you need to make 3 copies, for example, press the “Copy Count” button and the Message window displays “2 copy @100%”. 3. -
Page 28: Enhancing Your Copy Quality
ENHANCING YOUR COPY QUALITY ScanCopier provides “Quality mode” option to improve your copy quality particularly when your original comes with a photo in it. Quality mode allows your printout impressively reveals more image(photo) details. The Operating Steps: Place your document face down on the document glass. Press the “Copy Quality”... -
Page 29: Making Copies Of A 3D Object
MAKING COPIES OF A 3D OBJECT The digital copy solution improves your copy reproduction significantly and even makes a 3D object copies amazingly clear. The Operating Steps: Place your 3D object on the document glass. Press the “Copy Quality” button and the Message window displays “Normal mode”. -
Page 30: Automatic Power Saving
AUTOMATIC POWER SAVING ScanCopier features automatic power saving without unplugging the power cable. If you have not used ScanCopier over an hour, the ScanCopier automatically turns into power saving status to save the power. At this moment, the Message window displays “Power Saving…” while the Ready LED is flashing. -
Page 31: Scanner Operation & Document Printing5-1
SCANNER OPERATION & DOCUMENT PRINTING Scanning Images from within an Application (TWAIN) Open your application and choose Select Source from the File menu. If the Select Source menu options are not available from the File menu, see the user guide of your application to learn how the TWAIN link is used. - Page 32 From the File menu, select Acquire. The TWAIN user interface will pop up on the screen. Click on the Preview or Scan button to get the image. The TWAIN user interface:...
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Page 33: Image Type
IMAGE TYPE The ScanCopier 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. - Page 34 Gray (Internal 1024 levels of gray scale) 10-bit Gray presents a 1024 shades of gray in an image. Color (Internal one billion colors) The 30-bit True Color presents give much more tonal range and details in a color image.
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Page 35: Scanning Parameters & Image Control
5.2 SCANNING PARAMETERS & IMAGE CONTROL Resolution Brightness Contrast Resolution: The number of dpi (dots per inch) that the ScanCopier 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. - Page 36 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.
- Page 37 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. Reset: Resets the scanning parameters you set. Invert: The invert command reverses the brightness and the color in the image.
- Page 38 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.
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Page 39: Scanning
SCANNING Preview: Previews your image roughly and allocates the area to be scanned. Scan: Execute the Scans action. Exit: Cancels the current job. Document Size: To designate the size of your document, just click on its icon on the margin of the preview window. As shown in the figure below, in the Preview window, you can define the area to be scanned by dragging the four cursor auxiliary lines. -
Page 40: Printing
PRINTING Connect the printer cable as shown below. ScanCopier main unit Power Adapter ScanCopier Cable PC Parallel port Printer Cable Figure 5.1 ScanCopier Cable Connection Caution: 1. Be sure to power on the ScanCopier if you want to do pass-through printing. 2. -
Page 41: Maintenance
6. MAINTENANCE Cleaning: The ScanCopier is designed to be maintenance-free. However, it still needs to be cleaned occasionally to ensure optimum image quality and performance. Procedure 1. Open the document cover as shown in Figure 6-1. 2. Dip a soft clean cloth with isopropyl alcohol (95%). 3. - Page 42 1. Document Cover 2. White Sheet 3. Document Glass Figure 6-1 Cleaning...
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Page 43: Troubleshooting
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? Answer: 1) Modify the Gamma setting to 1.8 for your monitor and, when printing, set Gamma to 2.2 for your printer. - Page 44 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.
- Page 45 Question: Why sometimes pass-through printing does not work at all? Answer: It may be that you fail to power on the ScanCopier. When doing pass-through printing, please be sure to power on the ScanCopier. Else, without power, the ScanCopier can not transfer the printing data/signals to the printer.
- Page 46 Question: Why some parallel port devices and software’s keypro do not work with the ScanCopier? Answer: The ScanCopier do pass-through printing all 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 that the ScanCopier...
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Page 47: Technical Service
TECHNICAL SERVICE Technical support for Avision scanner is provided at the Avision Technical Assistance Center. Before you contact us, please prepare the following information for a quick solution: Ÿ Scanner serial & revision number (located on the bottom of the scanner);... -
Page 48: Specifications
SPECIFICATIONS All specifications are subject to change without notice. Scanner Type: Flatbed Optical Resolution: 300 dpi x 600 dpi (H*V) Copy Resolution: 600 dpi x 600 dpi Maximum Resolution: 9600 dpi Scanning Modes: Black & White mode Halftone mode (64-step) Error diffusion Grayscale(10 bits) Color(30 bits) -
Page 49: Ec Declaration Of Conformity
EC Declaration of Conformity According to EN45014 Manufacturer's Name: Avision Inc. Manufacturer's Address: No. 20 Creation Rd. 1, Science- Based Industrial Park, Hsinchu 300, Taiwan, R.O.C. declare that the product Model Number : ScanCopier conforms to the following Product Specifications:...
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