User manual VISIONEER PATRIOT 680

[. . . ] Visioneer® Patriot 680 Scanner User's Guide for Windows Visioneer Patriot 680 Scanner User's Guide FOR WINDOWS COPYRIGHT INFORMATION Copyright © 2006 Visioneer, Inc. Reproduction, adaptation, or translation without prior written permission is prohibited, except as allowed under the copyright laws. The Visioneer brand name and logo are registered trademarks of Visioneer, Inc. The PaperPort brand name and logo are registered trademarks of Nuance Communications, Inc. [. . . ] For example, a note written with a light pencil may need to be scanned darker to improve legibility. Contrast is the range between the darkest and lightest portions of the image. The greater the contrast, the more difference between the lighter and darker shades in the image. Drag the sliders to the right or left to adjust the brightness and contrast of the scanned image. If you want to lock the configuration, click the key icon to change it from a key to a lock. Click the Page Settings tab to select page settings. 66 VISIONEER PATRIOT 680 SCANNER USER'S GUIDE Click to toggle between inches and millimeters. Size--Click Standard, click the menu arrow and choose a page size from the list, or click Custom and enter the horizontal and vertical page dimensions in the boxes. Click the name of the units, inches or millimeters, to toggle between them. Improvements and Settings--Only the options that apply to the selected Destination Application are available. Reduce Moire Patterns--Moire patterns are wavy, rippled lines that sometimes appear on the scanned images of photographs or illustrations, particularly newspaper and magazine illustrations. Selecting Reduce Moire Patterns will limit or eliminate moire patterns in the scanned image. This option is only available for the Grayscale or Color Mode at 300 dpi or less. CONFIGURING THE ONETOUCH BUTTONS 67 Invert Image--Only available for Black&White Mode, this option reverses the black and whites of an image. Original Image Inverted Image Duplex--Scan both sides of the page. If this option is not selected, the scanner will scan the front side of the page only. Note: Because you can set Duplex and Simplex for the OneTouch buttons, there could be a conflict when you press the Simplex or Duplex button on the scanner. Regardless of the OneTouch setting, the scanner button always takes precedence. In other words, even if the LED number on the scanner has a setting for Duplex, when you press the Simplex scanner button the scanner scans in Simplex mode, and vice versa. Typically you use this option when you will scan a stack of twosided pages which have a number of blank sides. This option is only available for Duplex scanning. 68 VISIONEER PATRIOT 680 SCANNER USER'S GUIDE Color Filter--Color filter is the ability of your scanner to automatically remove a color from a scanned item. For example, if you are scanning a letter with a red watermark, you can choose to filter out the red so the scanned letter just shows the text and not the red watermark. Color filter applies to Black&White or Grayscale Mode. The original with a red watermark over black text. The options of the Advanced Settings tab are for the Color or Grayscale scanning mode. 9. Saturation is the strength or purity of a color, hue is the color your eyes see as reflected from the image, and gamma controls the brightness of the midtones of the color. CONFIGURING THE ONETOUCH BUTTONS 69 10. It will now be listed in the list of Scan Configurations on the OneTouch Properties window for the appropriate Destination Applications. THE DEVICE SETTINGS TAB A Device Settings tab is on the Scan Configurations dialog box when your selected Destination Application sends the scanned image to a printer, fax application, or other device. [. . . ] If you didn't restart the computer, it may not have loaded all of the software files. If you're using a USB hub to connect the scanner, the hub must have its own power supply. If the hub does not have its own power supply, plug the scanner into a USB port on the computer. If you use multiple devices with your computer, you may have selected another source for images with your TWAIN scanning application. [. . . ]