User manual VISIONEER ONETOUCH 8700 INSTALLATION GUIDE

[. . . ] Visioneer® OneTouch® 8700 Scanner FOR USB CONNECTION Installation Guide COPYRIGHT INFORMATION Copyright © 2001 Visioneer, Inc. , a wholly owned subsidiary of Primax Electronics LTD. 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 Primax Electronics LTD. The PaperPort brand name and logo are registered trademarks of ScanSoft, Inc. [. . . ] DeScreen--Select this option when scanning a picture from a newspaper or magazine article, or other item that contains images with patterns or dots. Scans of patterns or dots sometimes have a distorted or wavy appearance. The scanner scans the item to compensate for the patterns and dots, and produces a clearer image. The DeScreen setting does not apply to the Black/White mode. 25 VISIONEER ONETOUCH 8700 SCANNER INSTALLATION GUIDE Gamma--Drag the slider to improve how the colors in a scanned image look on your monitor. Because the computer cannot always transmit the exact color information to the hardware, you may have to make some color adjustments using the Gamma feature. The default Gamma setting works fine in most cases and normally does not need to be adjusted. The new configuration and its adjusted settings now apply to the button whose tab is selected at the top of the Configuration dialog box. Note: If you select the Copy/Print or Fax button, the dialog box for editing and adjusting the settings will have a Device tab for selecting options for a printer or copier. See the Help for more information. SETTING PREFERENCES The preferences apply to each button and to the scanner. On the Configuration dialog box, select the tab for a button to set its preferences. Click the Preferences tab on the Configuration dialog box. Preferences tab CONFIGURING THE SCANNER 26 The Preferences dialog box appears. The dialog box shows which button you selected for new preferences. The name of the button to receive new preferences If the Button tab on the Preferences dialog box is not selected, click it. Show All Destinations--Clicking this option automatically selects all the destination applications categories. When you click the button's tab on the Configuration dialog box, its list of destination applications include all of the applications on your computer that fall into these categories. For example, the destination applications for the email button are usually email applications. By selecting the Show All Destinations option as the preference for the email button, all the other types of applications are included in the list of email destination applications. Select Destinations--Select this option to individually choose the types of applications to include in the button's list of destination applications. Click in the boxes for the types of applications to include in the button's list. Show Scan Progress Window--Select this option to see the window that shows a rendition of the image during the scanning. See the sample on page 14. 27 VISIONEER ONETOUCH 8700 SCANNER INSTALLATION GUIDE 3. Click the General tab to set preferences for the scanner. Show Status Window--Select this option to see the small window at the bottom right corner of the screen that shows the status of the scanning and other information as shown in this sample: Show Scanner Icon in Windows Taskbar--Select this option to see the small icon representing the OneTouch scanner in the Windows taskbar Scanner Lamp turns off--These options control when the scanner lamp powers goes off. After idling for xx minutes--Select this option to automatically turn off the lamp if the scanner hasn't been used for the specified time. [. . . ] AutoScan Resolution--you can scan an item by clicking the AutoScan button on the Scan Manager. The scanner uses these resolution settings for the respective configurations: Color, Grey Scale and Black and White. Folder for Temporary Images--when you scan an item, its scanned image is initially stored in a folder before being sent to the PaperPort Desktop or some other application. Instead of using the default folder specified by the Scan Manager, you can select another folder on your computer. [. . . ]