User manual UMAX POWERLOOK 1000

[. . . ] Scanning images directly to a file by using MagicScan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 HOW TO SCAN TEXT DOCUMENTS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 TROUBLESHOOTING. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 MAINTENANCE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 CLEANING. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 STATIC ELECTRICITY PRECAUTIONS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 SPECIFICATIONS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 GLOSSARY. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 2 A Glance at Your Scanner The Front View 1. 4. Document Cover The plastic cover over the object glass which can be raised and lowered over a document. Carriage Lock Before operating the scanner you must move the locking switch to the unlocked position. Power Indicator Illuminates to indicate that the scanner is powered on. [. . . ] The UMAX scanner driver MagicScan windows will appear as shown in fig. Click on the "Preview" button to pre-scan the document. 2. 3. 8 4. Select the area to be scanned by clicking on the Frame tool as shown below, drag the cursor diagonally to form a rectangle surrounding the area to be scanned. Click Scan as shown below and scanning will commence. 5. Once the scan is complete click Exit to close MagicScan and return to the Adobe PhotoShop Elements window to edit the scanned image. For more details on using bundled image editing application Adobe PhotoShop Elements, please refer to its help by clicking on the "help" command in the menu. Scanning Images directly to a file by using MagicScan For Windows users: 1. Select Start Programs MagicScan V4. X MagicScan to launch the scanner driver. The MagicScan interface will appear which contains four windows. There are preview window, scanner control window, job list window, and info window. 9 Step 1 Click the "Preview" button. A quick, low-resolution scan will be made and appear in the preview window. Step 2 Select the area to be scanned by clicking on the Frame Tool, drag the cursor diagonally to form a rectangle surrounding the area to be scanned. Step 3 Select the type of original (Flatbed, Transmissive, Negative. . . ), scan mode (Color RGB, Color CMYK, Gray 256), intensity level (No filter, Sharpen, Blur. . . ), Resolution (300dpi, 200dpi, 100dpi, 50dpi. . . ) by clicking on the arrows on the right of each field. Step 4 You can click the "change the filename of image" button in the scan job list window to change the filename or the file format. (The button looks like a file folder. ) Step 5 Click the "Scan" button in preview window. Step 6 Once the scan is complete click the "Exit" button in preview window to close the interface. 10 For iMac \ iMac DV \ G4 Cube users 1. There are preview window, scanner control window, job list window, and info window. Step 1 Click the Preview button. A quick, low-resolution scan will be made and appear in the preview window. Step 2 Select the area to be scanned by clicking on the Frame Tool, drag the cursor diagonally to form a rectangle surrounding the area to be scanned. Step 3 Select the type of original (Flatbed, Transmissive, Negative. . . ), scan mode (Color RGB, Color CMYK, Gray 256), intensity level (No filter, Sharpen, Blur. . . ), Resolution (300dpi, 200dpi, 100dpi, 50dpi. . . ) by clicking on the arrows on the right of each field. Step 4 You can click the "change the filename of image" button in the scan job list window to change the filename or the file format. (The button looks like a file folder. ) Step 5 Click on the "Scan" button to start the scanning process. Step 6 Once the scan is complete click the "Quit" button in the preview window to close the interface. For more details about scanning the image, please refer to on-line help of MagicScan. 11 How to scan text documents Original Image Placement 1. Place the document (graphic, text, or photo) face down on the scanner. [. . . ] Optical Assembly: The component system of the scanner that contains all of the optical components. Peripheral Device: A device attached to a computer that adds functionality to a computer system. Power Indicator: The indicator that glows when the scanner's power cable is connected to the scanner and a "live" outlet and the power switch is turned on. Transparency Adapter: A scanner option that consists of additional hardware allowing the scanning of transparent originals, such as slides or X rays. [. . . ]