User manual VISIONEER 7400

[. . . ] Visioneer ® OneTouch 7400 USB Scanner User's Guide for Windows Visioneer OneTouch® 7400 USB Scanner User's Guide FOR WINDOWS COPYRIGHT INFORMATION Copyright © 2007 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. [. . . ] The following example shows the folders if a new location is named My Scanned Documents, and the selections are Group items by type and Group items by month. 4. Click OK to save the options for the selected button. CONFIGURING THE ONETOUCH BUTTON OPTIONS 51 CREATING A NEW SCAN CONFIGURATION The scan configurations are where you select the scanning resolution, brightness, mode (color, black&white, or grayscale), and a number of other settings. Configurations. Lock Icon. Click New to create a new Configuration. Note the lock icon on the preset configurations. Although you can unlock and edit the preset configurations, we recommend that you leave them locked, and only add new configurations. That way, you will always have the original factory-set configurations available. Open the OneTouch Properties window and click the tab of the button that you want to have a new configuration. Scroll through the applications in the Select Destination list and click the type of application for which you want to create a new scan configuration. When you create a new scan configuration, it will appear for the buttons that are set for the same types of Destination Applications. For example, if you create a new configuration for a button that is set to show image editor applications, that new configuration also 52 VISIONEER ONETOUCH 7400 USB SCANNER INSTALLATION GUIDE appears for any other buttons set for image editors, but not for buttons set for text editing applications. Thus, you can create specific sets of scan configurations for specific functions and they appear only when appropriate. If you want to start from the settings of another configuration, select the configuration, then click the Copy button. If the Scan Settings tab is not selected, click it. THE SCAN SETTINGS TAB 1. On the Scan Configuration Properties dialog box, type a name. Type a new name for the configuration. Drag the sliders to set the Brightness and Contrast. If the configuration is locked, click the lock to unlock it. The icon becomes a key. Note: If a destination application has additional features available, there will be additional tabs in this Scan Configuration Properties window applicable to that destination. The features in these additional tabs are covered later on in this section. CONFIGURING THE ONETOUCH BUTTON OPTIONS 53 2. Select scan settings for the new scan configuration. Mode--Select a scanning mode: Black&White to scan in black and white. For example, letters and memos are usually scanned in black and white. GrayScale to scan items such as documents containing drawings or black and white photographs. Color scans have the largest file size. Resolution--Drag the slider to the right or left to adjust the dots per inch (dpi) of the resolution. The higher the dpi setting, the sharper and clearer the scanned image. However, higher dpi settings take longer to scan and produce larger files for the scanned images. Brightness and Contrast--Sometimes an item is scanned with the brightness and contrast set too light or too dark. [. . . ] Also try rebooting the computer. · Did you plug the scanner into a USB hub?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. · Did you select another TWAIN source for acquiring images?If you use multiple TWAIN devices with your computer, you may have selected another source for images. [. . . ]