Umax ASTRA 4450, ASTRA 4400 User Manual

OPERATION

OPERATIONOPERATION

MANUAL

MANUALMANUAL

For the

Astra

AstraAstra

4400

44004400

Color

Scanner

UMAX Data Systems, Inc.

This operation manual contains all the information that you can’t find in the Quick Start Guide. For quick installation instructions, see the Quick Start Guide accompanying your scanner.

Trademarks

IBM PC/AT is a trademark of International Business Machines Corporation. MS-Windows, Windows are trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. MGI PhotoSuite is trademark of MGI Software Corp. Other names and trademarks appearing herein are trademarks of their respective holders.

Copyright 2001 UMAX Data Systems, Inc. All Rights Reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, transmitted, transcribed, stored in a retrieval system, or translated into any language or computer language, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, magnetic, optical, chemical, manual, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of UMAX Data Systems, Inc.

Important Safeguards

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Read all the instructions.

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Save these instructions for later use.

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Follow all warnings and instructions marked on the product.

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When replacement parts are required, be sure that service technicians have used replacement parts that conform to at least the same safety standards with regard to fire, electric shock, or other hazards.

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Do not use this product near water or in rainy/moist environment.

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Do not place the scanner on an uneven surface. This may cause serious damage to the scanner.

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The product should be operated using only the type of power source indicated on the product label.

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Do not attempt to service this product yourself as opening or removing the enclosure may expose you to dangerous voltage or other hazards.

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This unit has input circuitry suitable for a 12V DC supply.

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The sound pressure level at the operators position according to IEC 7041:1982 should be less than or equal to 70dB(A).

Contents

Overview of Your Scanner............................................... 5

Completing Your First Scan ............................................ 8

Configuring the Push Buttons ....................................... 15

Scanning with VistaScan ................................................20

Troubleshooting .............................................................. 28

Maintenance .................................................................... 30

Specifications ................................................................... 32

Glossary............................................................................ 33

Front View

OVERVIEW OF YOUR SCA

OVERVIEW OF YOUR SCANNER

OVERVIEW OF YOUR SCAOVERVIEW OF YOUR SCA

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Document Cover

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The plastic cover over the object glass that can be raised and lowered over a document.

Object Glass

The glass surface on which the document or image should be placed.

Power Indicator

Illuminates to indicate that the scanner is powered on.

Scan, Copy, E-mail/Fax and Custom buttons

Back View

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Power Adapter Receptacle

The power adapter is plugged-in here.

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4-Pin USB Connector

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Universal Transparency Cover Socket

The socket used by the Universal Transparency Cover.

Push buttons on the front panel

The defining feature of the Astra 4400 is its push button functionality.

You can scan an image to e-mail, perform OCR, or even use the scanner as a copy machine by pressing the buttons on the front panel of the scanner.

The scanner has four push buttons on the front panel, from left to right: “Scan”, “Copy”, “E-mail/Fax” and “Custom”.

– Press this button to start scanning the image on the

Scan

scanner to the image editing application, scanning the document on the scanner to the text editing application or scanning the document on the scanner to Microsoft Excel.

– Press this button to directly spool your image to the

Copy

printer.

E-mail/Fax

– Press this button to scan the image to an e-

mail application or have it prepared to be sent as a Fax.

Custom

– Press this button to scan the image using VistaScan or launch an image editing application installed in your computer.

COMPLETING YOUR FIRS

COMPLETING YOUR FIRST SCAN

COMPLETING YOUR FIRSCOMPLETING YOUR FIRS

Before proceeding with the steps below, please complete the hardware and software installation (refer to the Quick Start Guide).

Placing the Original Image

1. Raise the scanner’s document cover.

2. Place the document (graphic, text or photo) face down on the glass.

3. Lower the document cover.

Starting by Pressing the Push Buttons

You can increase your productivity by accessing all the normal scanner functions without having to manually launch the software applications in your computer.

Press the push buttons on the front panel of your scanner and the image or the text document on the scanner will be scanned to the destination selected. Refer to the following sections to familiarize yourself with each push button on the front panel of the scanner and their functions.

T SCAN

T SCAN T SCAN

Scan Button

Scanning images to the image editing application

1. Press the window with three icons appears, as shown on the next page. Click on the first icon from the left to scan an image to the image editing application. The default image editing application is MGI PhotoSuite (if you have installed it).

Scan

button

on the front panel of the scanner and a

2. A scan progress window showing the executed scanning task appears.

3. Once the scan is completed, the image editing application automatically opens and displays the scanned image.

Scanning text documents to the text editing application

1. Press the

Scan

button

on the front panel of the scanner and a window with three icons appears, as shown below. Click on the second icon from the left to scan a text document to the text editing application. The default text editing application is Microsoft Word (if installed).

2. A scan progress window showing the executed task appears.

3. Once the scan is completed, the scanned image is converted to text through the OCR engine and the text editing application automatically opens for editing the document.

Scanning documents to Microsoft Excel

1. Press the

Scan

button

on the front panel of the scanner and a window with three icons appears, as shown below. Click on the third icon from the left to scan the spreadsheet document to Microsoft Excel.

2. A window appears, as shown below. The two icons on this window indicate two orientations of the document, landscape and portrait. Click on the correct orientation.

3. A scan progress window showing the executed task appears.

4. Once the scan is completed, the scanned image is converted to text through the OCR engine and Microsoft Excel automatically opens and displays the document.

Copy Button

Scanning images to the printer

1. Press the scan progress window appears, as shown below.

Copy

button

on the front panel of the scanner and a

2. Once the scan is completed, the scanned image is sent to the default printer.

E-mail/Fax Button

Scanning documents to the e-mail application

1. Press the E-mail/Fax button

on the front panel of the scanner and a window with two icons appears, as shown below. Click on the left icon to scan the document to the default e-mail application (if any).

2. A scan progress window showing the executed task appears.

3. Once the scan is completed, the e-mail application automatically opens and the scanned document is attached to a message.

Scanning documents to the Fax software

1. Press the E-mail/Fax button

on the front panel of the scanner and a window with two icons appears, as shown below. Click on the right icon to scan the document and have it prepared to be sent to the recipient’s fax machine.

2. A FaxUI window appears: please input the fax number of the recipient in the FAX Number field, and then click on the Send Fax icon.

3. The scanned document will be sent to the selected fax number, just like a fax machine does, through the modem installed in your computer.

Custom button

The Custom button has two functions, which include invoking the scanner driver VistaScan and launching an image editing application installed in your computer.

Before utilizing any function of this button, please click on the scanner icon

in the Taskbar with the right mouse button to edit settings of this button

first.

Following are introductions to two of the functions.

Invoking the scanner driver VistaScan directly

1. Right click on the scanner icon up menu as shown on the right appears.

2. Click the

Push Button Configuration

option. The Push Button configuration window appears.

3. Select the custom icon and UMAX scanner icon, then click on the OK button to save the settings.

4. Upon pushing the

Custom

button

will be invoked directly.

, a pop-

, the scanner driver VistaScan

Open an image editing application

1. Right click on the scanner icon

, a pop-

up menu as shown on the right appears.

2. Click the

Push Button Configuration

option. The Push Button configuration window appears.

3. Select the custom icon and the image

editing application icon.

4. Select the image editing application by clicking on the arrow on the

right of the

Scan Destination

field. A list of all the available

applications appears. Choose one of the applications.

5. If the application you want to scan to is not shown in the Scan

Destination drop-down list, click on the Add button. The Add application window opens. Enter the application name in the Application Name text box. Enter the path and executable file name for the application you want to use in the File Location text box.

6. If you are not sure of the path or the exact executable name, click on

the Browse button to locate the appropriate file

7. Click on the OK button to save the settings.

8. Select the type of document, the resolution, and the scanning intensity

level by clicking on the arrows on the right of each field.

9. Click on the OK button to save the settings.

10. Upon pushing the

Custom

button

on the front of your scanner, the selected image editing application will be launched for further editing of your scanned image.

If you want to change the default configuration of the push buttons, please refer to the next chapter for more details.

CONFIGURING THE PUSH

CONFIGURING THE PUSH BUTTONS

CONFIGURING THE PUSHCONFIGURING THE PUSH

Configuring the Scan button

1. Click on the scanner icon in the Taskbar with the right mouse button. A pop-up menu as shown on the right appears.

BUTTONS

BUTTONS BUTTONS

2. Click the The Push Button configuration window appears.

The

Scan

editing application, text editing application and Microsoft Excel. Click on their icons to set their values.

Push Button Configuration

icon controls the values of the image

option.

Configuring the image editing application

Click on the

Select the image editing application by clicking on the arrow on the right

of the

Scan Destination

appears. Choose one of the applications.

icon and the image editing application icon.

Scan

field. A list of all the available applications

Select the type of document, the resolution, and the scanning intensity

level by clicking on the arrows on the right of each field.

Click on the OK button to save the settings.

Configuring the text editing application

Click on the Edit icon and the text editing application icon.

Select the text editing application by clicking on the arrow on the right

of the OCR Destination field. A list of all the available applications appears. Choose one of applications.

Select the type of document, resolution, and scanning intensity by

clicking on the arrows on the right of each field.

Click on the OK button to save the settings.

Configuring the Copy button

Click on the VistaAccess icon in the

Taskbar with the right mouse button. A pop-up menu as shown on the right appears.

Click on the

option. The window appears.

Click on the Copy icon to open the window

that contains the variables you are adjusting.

Push Button Configuration

Select the printer driver you want to use to print the copies to by clicking

on the arrow on the right of the field.

Select the desired scanning intensity level of the original image by

clicking on the arrow on the right of the field.

Click on the OK button. This setting will be used whenever you press

the Copy button on the front of the scanner.

Configuring the E-mail/Fax button

1. Click on the scanner icon in the Taskbar with your right mouse button. A pop-up menu as shown on the right appears.

2. Click the option. The appears.

3. Click on the E-mail/Fax icon to open the window that contains the variables you are adjusting.

The E-mail/Fax icon controls the values for the E-mail and Fax functions. Click on their icon for setting their values.

Push Button Configuration

Configuring the values for the E-mail function

Click on the E-mail Icon

b. Select the e-mail application and the resolution for sending the scanned

image by clicking on the arrow on the right of the field.

Click on the OK button to save the settings.

For more details on using the VistaAccess Utilities, please refer to the Utilities User’s Guide in the VistaScan program group.

To open the Utilities User’s Guide:

1. Click on the Start button on your desktop.

2. Select Programs.

3. Select the VistaScan program group.

4. Select Utilities User’s Guide.

SCANNING WITH VISTAS

SCANNING WITH VISTASCAN

SCANNING WITH VISTASSCANNING WITH VISTAS

Note It is important to realize that different applications may

use different methods to acquire images and only the most general case is given here. Please refer to your application documentation for details on its usage.

CAN

CANCAN

A. Using an image editing application to invoke VistaScan

1. Open a TWAIN-compliant application from Microsoft Windows in order to start. For example, launch MGI PhotoSuite on the Astra 4400 CD. Follow these steps to open MGI PhotoSuite:

I. Click on the II. Select III. Select the IV. Select

2. The MGI PhotoSuite window appears as shown in Fig 1. Select the scanner icon or the

3. The

4. The

5. Click on the green

6. Place the item you will scan on top of the scanner’s object glass.

7. Click on

8. Once the scan is completed, Press the exit button, VistaScan closes and

Get Photo

panel on the left, select the

Scanner (Twain)

VistaScan window will open as shown in Fig. 4.

and then from the four modes on the mode button that best suits the required scan. For example, if you wish to scan a color photograph, click on the image in true color. Scanning will commence upon selection of a button.

loads a thumbnail icon of the scanned image on the right top panel, named

Programs

MGI PhotoSuite

Preview

on the

Photos

MGI PhotoSuite

user interface appears as shown in Fig. 2. From the green

button on your desktop.

Start

program group.

button on the top menu.

Get

Scanner (Twain)

user interface appears as shown in Fig. 3.

button on the left panel to invoke VistaScan, the

Scan

to preview the scanned image on the Preview window

Click to scan

Scanner (Twain)

button.

panel, click on a scan

Color Photo

user interface.

button to scan the

9. Double click on the thumbnail icon to load the image. Refer then to the on-line help of MGI PhotoSuite for more detail on editing the scanned image.

For more details about scanning the image, please refer to the

on-line help of VistaScan

Fig. 1

Fig. 2 Fig. 3

Fig. 4

B. Initiating VistaScan directly

From the VistaScan program group on the desktop

1. Launch the VistaScan program group

as shown to the right.

2. The VistaScan Window will appear

as shown in Fig. 5.

3. From the

menu, choose a destination for the scanned image.

4. Click on one of the small icons in the

Scan To

email, application, etc.) for the scanned image. For example, if you

want to save the image in a particular file, click on the disk icon

the middle panel, and then click on the top right of the VistaScan interface. The appears.

5. In the

details into the the

6. Click OK. The entries you made will be implemented and the dialog

box closes.

7. Click on

8. For an explanation of the other

VistaScan's on-line help.

Scan To

panel representing the desired destination (a folder, printer,

Preferences

Browse

Preview

panel in the main

Preferences

dialog box as shown in Fig. 6, enter the relevant

File Name, File Format

button to locate the desired folder for your image.

to preview the scanned image on the Preview window

Scan To

and

Click to scan

Color Photo

destinations, please refer to the

button

dialog box

File Directory

panel, click a scan

button to scan the

fields. Use

on the

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