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Contents
Introduction
System Requirements
How to Use This Manual
Warnings, Cautions, Tips, and Notes
Where to Get Help
Electronic support Services
Chapter 1
Installing the Scanning Utilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-1
Testing the Scanning Utilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3
Chapter 2
Calibrating Your Monitor to Your Scanner
Performing Screen Calibration
Enabling Screen Calibration
Calibrating Your Printer to Your Scanner
Exporting a Calibration Chart
Creating Printer Calibration Profiles
Scanning Using Calibration
Chapter 3
Installing Your Software
Calibrating Your System
Capturing Images From Within Applications
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Accessing EPSON TWAIN
Using the Easy Screen
Selecting the Document Source
Selecting the Image Type
Selecting the Destination
Using the Advanced Screen
Modifying an Image Type
Modifying the Destination
Previewing and Adjusting the Image
Scanning the Image
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Chapter 4
Using Special Effects
Modifying the TWAIN Configuration
Using Image Controls
Adjusting Gamma Correction
Adjusting Colors
Setting the Gray Balance
Changing Saturation
Using Color Filters
Inverting an Image
Using Automatic Features
Using Auto Exposure
Using Auto Locate
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Saving and Exporting Image 5
Saving a Scanned Image
Exporting an Image
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Acquiring and Exporting an Image
Exiting EPSONS can! II
Chapter 6
Troubleshooting
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Problems Using the EPSON Scanning Utilities
Problems With Image QuaIity
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Appendix
Icon Glossary
Index
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Introduction
The EPSON® Scanning Utilities let you perform the following
functions with your EPSON scanner:
Calibrate your scanner to your monitor and your printer
Capture scanned images from within your application
Automatically locate, expose, and scan an image
Adjust individual settings and preview the effects before
you scan
Choose single- or triple-pass scanning
Save and reuse scanning settings that work well in your
environment
Take advantage of the multipage scanning feature available
with scanners that have an automatic document feeder
(ADF)
Take advantage of the text enhancement technology built
into some EPSON scanners.
The EPSON Scanning Utilities are composed of two integrated
main programs: EPSON Scan! II and EFSON TWAIN. EPSON
Scan! II calibrates your scanner with your monitor and color
printer to produce images in colors that closely match the
originals. It can also capture images and then save and export
them in a variety of file formats.
EPSON TWAIN is the interface between most of your software
and your scanner. TWAIN has two screens: easy and
advanced. You can access either screen from within any
software that supports the TWAIN standard or from EPSON
Scan! II to take advantage of your scanner’s features.
Introduction 1
Note:
As you use the EPSON Scanning Utilities, the top fine of the window
identifies whether you are using EPSON Scan! II or EPSON
TWAIN.
System Requirements
For the EPSON Scanning Utilities to work properly, your
system must have at least the following configuration:
Apple® Macintosh® or Power Macintosh™ computer with a
68030 or 68040 processor
Apple system software 7.0 or higher
At least 100MB of free hard disk space for scanner
applications and images, depending on the size of the
images
8ME3 of system RAM; 4MB of application RAM
Note:
8MB is the minimum amount of RAM; graphics applications run
faster and more efficiently with at least 12MB of RAM.
A color monitor (one with a 24-bit video card is
recommended)
One of the following EPSON scanners: ES-300C, ES-600C,
ES-800C, ES-1000C, ES-1200C, or the ActionScanner™ II.
Note:
Some
these scanners.
2 Introduction
features
may not be available or are restricted for some
of
How to Use This Manual
This User’s Guide contains information you need to install and
use the EPSON Scanning Utilities with your EPSON scanner.
Chapter 1 describes installing your EPSON Scanning Utilities
software. Be sure to read this first. Chapter 2 describes how to
calibrate your system. Basic information for scanning from
within your application is included in Chapter 3, while
Chapter 4 describes using the special effects features of your
software. Chapter 5 tells you how to use EPSON Scan! II to
export images. Troubleshooting tips are contained in Chapter 6
and default settings are listed in the Appendix.
This manual also includes two glossariesan icon glossary that
describes how each icon works, and a term glossary that
describes common scanning terms. The final section is an index.
Warnings, Cautions, Tips, and Notes
This manual displays important information as follows:
Warnings
must be followed carefully to avoid damage to your scanner
and computer.
Cautions
should be followed carefully to ensure your scanner operates
correctly.
Tips
contain helpful ideas for using these utilities.
Notes
contain important information about these utilities.
Introduction 3
Where to Get Help
If you purchased your scanner in the United States or Canada,
EPSON provides customer support and service through a
network of Authorized EPSON Customer Care Centers.
EPSON also provides the following services when you dial
(800)922-8911:
Technical information on the installation, configuration,
and operation of EPSON products
Assistance in locating your nearest Authorized EPSON
Reseller or Customer Care Center
Customer relations
EPSON
Product literature on current and new products.
You can purchase printed manuals, accessories, or parts for
EPSON products from EPSON Accessories at (800)
(U.S. sales only). In Canada, call (800) BUY-EPSON.
If you purchased your scanner outside the United States or
Canada, contact your EPSON dealer or the marketing location
nearest you for customer support and service.
If you need help with any software program you are using,
see the documentation for that program for technical support
information.
technical information library fax service
873-7766
Electronic Support services
If you have a modem, the fastest way to access helpful tips,
specifications, drivers, application notes, DIP switch or jumper
settings, and bulletins for EPSON products is through the
online services below.
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EPSON Bulletin Board Service
You can call the EPSON Bulletin Board Service (BBS) at
(310) 782-4531. No membership is required. Make sure your
communications software is set to 8 data bits with 1 stop bit,
no parity bit, and a modem speed up to 28.8 Kbps. See the
documentation that came with your communications software
for more information.
To download the latest TWAIN drivers from the BBS, use the
Drivers library.
CompuServe online support
CompuServe® members can call the Epson America Forum
on CompuServe. If you are already a member, simply type
GO
EPSON
If you are not currently a member, you are eligible for a free
introductory membership as an owner of an EPSON product.
This membership entitles you to:
An introductory credit on CompuServe
Your own user ID and password
at the menu prompt to reach the Forum.
A complimentary subscription to CompuServe Magazine,
CompuServe’s monthly publication.
To take advantage of this offer, call (800) 848-8199 in the United
States and Canada and ask for representative #529. In other
countries, call the following U.S. telephone number:
(614) 529-1611, or your local CompuServe access number.
Introduction 5
Chapter 1
Installing Your Software
EPSON Scanning Utilities come with installer software that
makes them easy to install on your Macintosh.
Before you install the software, make sure that the SCSI
interface cable is
terminator are set correctly; see your scanner documentation
for instructions. Then follow the instructions below to install
your software.
Installing the Scanning Utilities
Follow these steps to install EPSON Scanning Utilities:
1.2.Turn on the scanner.
Hold down the Shift key while turning on your Macintosh
to turn off any extensions.
Insert the EPSON Scanning Utilities Disk 1 in a diskette drive.
3.
connected
properly and the SCSI ID and
If necessary, double-click the
4.
open the Disk
Double-click the
5.
After a few moments, you see the initial setup screen. Click
6.
OK
to continue.
1
folder.
Installer
Disk 1
icon in the Disk 1 folder.
icon on the desktop to
Installing Your Software
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You see the Easy Install screen:
7.
To install all the program components, click
only one or two components, click
Customize;
Install.
then
To select
highlight the components on the next screen and click
Install.
8.
The program begins copying files. Insert the diskettes as
prompted.
9.
When installation is complete, you see a success message.
Click Restart to
restart your Macintosh.
The program creates an EPSON Scan! II folder on your hard
disk containing EPSON Scan! II and EPSON Scan! II Help
icons. It also creates a TWAIN folder within Preferences in your
System folder. TWAIN contains EPSON TWAIN, the EPSON
TWAIN Settings, EPSON Calibration Profiles, and the Source
Manager.
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1nstalling Your Software
Testing the Scanning Utilities
After you have installed the Scanning Utilities, test your
scanner with the utilities to make sure everything works
correctly. Follow these steps:
1.
Raise the scanner’s cover and place an image face down on
the glass surface. Then carefully close the cover.
2.
Double-click the
3.
From the File menu,
TWAIN easy screen:
EPSON Scan! II
select Acquire. You see the
icon.
EPSON
4.
Click
Scan. After
a few moments, you see the image in the
EPSON Scan! II Untitled-l window.
If you do not see it, repeat the steps you performed to set up
your scanner and install the scanning Utilities again.
5. ExitScan! II.
Note:
Before you can acquire an image from within your application the
first time, you need to select EPSON TWAIN as your TWAlN data
source. See your application documentation for
instructions.
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Chapter 2
Calibrating Your System
Sometimes the colors of your original image do not match the
colors you see on your screen and in the final printed output.
This is because of the different color processes your scanner,
monitor, and printer use to produce color.
The scanner and the monitor both create a range of colors by
adding red, green, and blue (RGB) in different proportions and
intensities (an additive color process). Printers, on the other
hand, produce colors by combining cyan (C), magenta (M),
yellow (Y), and black (K) inks (CMYK) to create the desired
hues. This is a subtractive color process.
When you print a scanned image, the image goes through both
the additive and subtractive interpretive processes to acquire
colorthe first when it is scanned, and the second when it is
printed on your color printer. As a result, the printed colors
may not match the colors in the original.
Calibration allows you to fine-tune your scanner, monitor, and
printer to produce colors that are very close to those in the
originals. Use the procedures in this chapter to:
Calibrate your monitor to your scanner
Calibrate your printer to your scanner
Use the resulting calibration profiles when you scan an
image.
Calibrating Your System
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Calibrating Your Monitor to Your Scanner
To calibrate your monitor to your scanner, you first need to
perform a screen calibration using EPSON Scan! II and then
enable screen calibration in TWAIN.
Performing Screen Calibration
Follow these steps to perform a screen calibration:
1.
Select
2.
Choose
see this screen:
EPSON Scan!
Screen Calibration
II in the EPSON Scan! II folder.
from the Calibrate menu. You
3.
4. Choose OK.
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Look at the display from a distance and adjust the slide bar
until the separate rows have the same basic color intensity.
Tip:
If the rows don’t look the same after you adjust the slide
bar, increase the number of colors your monitor displays,
if possible,
Macintosh documentation.
using the
Monitor
Control Panel; see your
Note:
If you use a different monitor or change your video resolution,
calibrate your screen again.
Enabling Screen Calibration
Once you calibrate your screen, you need to make sure screen
calibration is enabled (the default setting). Follow these steps:
1.
Start EPSON Scan! II, if necessary.
2.
From the File menu, choose
You see the EPSON TWAIN screen.
Acquire
to start EPSON TWAIN.
If the screen is fairly
it is the easy screen.
advanced screen. If the screen is large and has a
Configuration
3.
Click Configuration
4.
Make sure the
If it isn’t, select it to enable screen calibration.
5. Choose OK.
6.
Close the EPSON TWAIN screen.
When screen calibration is enabled, TWAIN uses it as it scans
images until you change this setting.
small
and has
Click Advanced
button, it is the advanced screen.
to open the Configuration dialog box.
EPSON Calibration
an Advanced
to switch to the
radio button is turned on.
button,
Calibrating Your printer to Your Scanner
If you are printing color images on a color printer, you must
choose a calibration profile for each of the printers you use.
Printer calibration profiles ensure that the colors in your
printed images closely match those in the original.
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If you have one of these EPSON Stylus® ink jet printers, Scan! II
provides printer calibration profiles for you so you do not have
to create them:
EPSON Stylus COLOR
EPSON Stylus COLOR II
EPSON Stylus Pro
EPSON Stylus Pro XL
EPSON Stylus COLOR IIs
For these printers you simply select the printer calibration
profile before you scan an image. See “Scanning Using
Calibration” on page 2-8.
If you have a color printer that is not an EPSON Stylus, you
must create a printer calibration profile using the instructions
in this section.
To create a printer calibration profile, you must perform these
operations:
Export a calibration chart from EPSON Scan! II to your
application in a format your application can open and print
Scan the printed chart to create the printer calibration
profile.
Exporting a Calibration Chart
Follow these steps:
1.
Start EPSON Scan! II, if necessary.
2.
Choose
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Export Calibration Chart
from the Calibrate menu.
System
You see the following screen:
From the
3.
format your application software can open, such as
In the
4.
for the calibration chart file, such as
Click Export to create the calibration chart in the EPSON
5.
Export File Format
Export image as
pull-down menu, select a
PICT.
field, type the name you want to use
COLOR1.
Scan! II folder.
Exit EPSON Scan! II.
6.
Start your image editing application.
7.
Open the calibration chart file you just created in the EPSON
8.
Scan! II folder.
The calibration chart appears in the application window. It
9.
contains nine blocks of color gradations, some grayscale
gradations, and a black border on three sides.
Save the calibration chart file. You can use the same name
you assigned when you exported the chart, or you can
assign a new name.
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10. Print the calibration chart on your color printer.
11. Exit your image editing application.
Note:
To print images on more than one color printer, print the calibration
chart on each printer you’ll use. If you plan to print the image on a
service bureau’s color printer, have them print the calibration chart
on their printer so you can create a calibration profile for it.
Tip:
when you label the printed charts
to
help you identify which
printer produced them, don’t write on the chart itself. Write on
the back of the page.
Tip:
If you plan to print your image on a printing press
that
requires a four-color separation, you’ll need to ask your service
bureau or printer to create a color sample using your
calibration chart. You can then use
that
color sample to create
a calibration profile.
You are now ready to scan the printed calibration chart to
create a printer calibration profile.
Creating Printer Calibration Profiles
Follow these steps to create a calibration profile for each color
printer you want
1.
Start EPSON Scan! II, if necessary.
2.
Place the printed calibration chart face down on the glass
surface of your scanner and close the cover.
3.
Choose
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to
use:
Create Calibration Profile
from the Calibrate menu.
You see the following screen:
4.
In the
file you want to create,
Filename
field, type the filename of the calibration
such
Tip:
If you
are
creating more than one calibration profile (for
instance, if you have more than one color printer), make
sure you assign a unique filename to each calibration
profile so you can distinguish between them.
5.
Click Continue. You see
screen.
(If
you see
the
easy screen,
as COLOR1 PRINTER.
the EPSON TWAIN advanced
click Advanced.)
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System
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6.
If necessary, choose
pull-down menu.
7.
Choose Calibration
menu.
8.
Click
Scan.
creates a calibration profile. You see the EPSON Scan! II
program screen.
Note:
If a message appears indicating that the specified scan settings are
incorrect, you need to reset the Destination options to their
default settings. Click the
Destination dialog
Calibration setting,
Save the settings by clicking
Always create calibration profiles using these
You can now use the calibration profile when you scan images,
as described in the next section.
The program scans the calibration chart and
Color
box; then select General for the
and
Photo
Profile from the Destination pull-down
Destination
180 for
Save;
from the Image Type
button to open the
both
the Resolution
then choose
Scan
default
again.
settings.
settings.
Scanning Using Calibration
If you are using one of the pre-defined printer calibration
profiles, such as one of the EPSON Stylus printer profiles, or
you have created a custom calibration profile for your printer,
you can now use that profile to scan your image.
Follow these steps to use a calibration profile when you scan:
1.
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Choose
from the File menu of your application or EPSON Scan! II.
2.
If you see a submenu, choose
TWAIN,
screen. (If you
Calibrating Your System
Acquire
if necessary). You see EPSON TWAIN advanced
(or Place, or the appropriate command)
TWAIN
see the easy screen,
(and then
click
Advanced.)
EPSON
2.
If you see a submenu, choose
TWAIN,
screen. (If you
3.
Click Destination to
4.
If you have one of the EPSON Stylus printers listed on
if necessary). You see EPSON TWAIN advanced
see the
easy screen,
open the Destination dialog box.
page 2-4, select the printer from the
pull-down menu. The
Calibration
TWAIN
(and then
click Advanced.)
Destination Name
description is assigned
EPSON
automatically. Go to step 6.
If you created a custom calibration profile for your printer,
type a unique name for the profile, such as
PROFILE, in the Destination Name
5.
From the
Calibration
pull-down menu, select the filename
COLOR1
field. Go to step 5.
you assigned when you created the profile, such as
COLOR1 PRINTER.
6. Click Save.
7.
Click
OK.
You see the EPSON TWAIN advanced screen.
You can now preview or scan your image using the calibration
profile for your color printer, as described in the next chapter.
Tip:
If the colors in your printed image do not closely match the
original, recalibrate your monitor and your printer and try
again.
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Chapter 3
Capturing Images From Within
Applications
When you scan an image from within an application using
EPSON TWAIN, you follow these basic steps:
Access TWAIN from within your application’s File menu
Choose either the easy or advanced TWAIN screen
Select the correct image type and destination settings
l
Preview the image and select the scan area (advanced
screen only)
l
Scan the image
Close TWAIN and edit the image in your application.
Guidelines for performing each of these basic steps are
provided in this chapter.
If you don’t need to preview the image you are scanning and
want only to specify the document source (if available), the
image type, and the destination, you can use the easy screen;
see page 3-3.
If you want to select calibration profiles, or add, delete, or
modify an image or destination before you scan, you must use
the advanced screen; see page 3-5. (To use the special effects
features on the advanced screen, see Chapter 4)
Next:
If your application does not support TWAIN, you can use EPSON
Scan! II to scan an image and export it in format your image editing
software can use. See Chapter 5 for more in formation.
Capturing Images From Within Applications
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Accessing EPSON TWAIN
To access EPSON TWAIN,
appropriate command) from the File menu within your
application. You may then have to select
maybe
you see either the easy or advanced screen, depending on
which was opened last.
The easy screen allows you to select the type, destination, and
document source (if available) of your image. When you scan
with this screen, your entire image is captured and scanned.
The advanced screen lets you select the same basic settings as
the easy screen, plus it allows you to modify, add to, or delete
these settings. The advanced screen also lets you preview and
select the portion of your image you want to scan.
EPSON TWAIN)
choose Acquire (or Place, or the
TWAIN
from a submenu. When TWAIN opens,
(and then
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Capturing Images From Within Applications
Using the Easy Screen
The following basic settings are available on the TWAIN easy
screen:
Document source
Imagetype
Destination.
You must select the appropriate option from each of these
settings to successfully scan your image.
Selecting the Document Source
If you have an optional Automatic Document Feeder (ADF) or
Transparency Unit installed on your scanner, you can select the
option from the Document Source pull-down menu. The
following table describes the available options:
Document Source options
Source option
Flatbed
Automatic Document
Feeder
Transparency Unit
Function
Scans the image from the document table
Scans
images as they feed
(multipage scanning)
I
Scans an image from the Transparency Unit
through the ADF
Note:
When the Automatic Document Feeder is installed,
the
easy and
advanced TWAIN screens contain checkboxes for selecting scanning
of one page or all pages in a document.
Capturing Images From
Within
Applications
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