Click Scan and Stitch on the (Scanning from a Computer) tab to display the Settings (Scan and Stitch) dialog.

In the Settings (Scan and Stitch) dialog, you can make advanced scan settings for scanning items larger than the platen.

Note: The scanning from the operation panel tab is not displayed for all models.

(1) Scan Options Area

(2) Save Settings Area

(3) Application Settings Area

• When the Settings dialog is displayed from the Scan screen of My Image Garden, the setting items for Application Settings do not appear.

(1) Scan Options Area

• Select Source

  Select the type of item to be scanned.

  Scanning photos: Photo

  Scanning documents: Document

  Scanning magazines: Magazine

  Note

  • To reduce moire, set Select Source to Magazine.

• Color Mode

  Select how to scan the item.

  Important

  • To select Black and White, set an option other than JPEG/Exif in Data Format of Save Settings.

• Resolution

  Select the resolution of the item to be scanned.

  The higher the resolution (value), the more detail in your image.

  Resolution

• Image Processing Settings

  Click (Right Arrow) to set the following. Available setting items vary by Select Source.

  Note

  • When Color Mode is Black and White, Image Processing Settings is not available.

  When Select Source is Photo

  • Sharpen outline

    Emphasizes the outline of the subjects to sharpen the image.

  When Select Source is Magazine or Document

  • Sharpen outline

    Emphasizes the outline of the subjects to sharpen the image.

  • Reduce show-through

    Sharpens text in an item or reduces show-through in newspapers, etc.

  • Reduce moire

    Reduces moire patterns.

    Printed materials are displayed as a collection of fine dots. "Moire" is a phenomenon where uneven gradation or a stripe pattern appears when such photos or pictures printed with fine dots are scanned.

    Note

    • Scanning takes longer than usual when you enable Reduce moire.

(2) Save Settings Area

• File Name

  Enter the file name of the image to be saved. The date and 4 digits are appended to the set file name in the "_20XX0101_0001" format.

• Data Format

  Select the data format in which to save the scanned images.

  You can select JPEG/Exif, TIFF, PNG, PDF, or PDF (Multiple Pages).

• Settings...

  Click to display the Data Format Settings dialog in which you can set the quality of the images to be saved, keyword search of PDF files and their compression type, and the data format in which to save images scanned with Auto Scan.

  Data Format Settings Dialog

• Save in

  Displays the folder in which to save the scanned images. To change the folder, specify the destination folder in the dialog displayed by selecting Add... from the pop-up menu.

  The default save folder is the Documents folder.

  Important

  • When the Settings dialog is displayed from My Image Garden, this option does not appear.

• Check scan results

  Displays the Save Settings dialog after scanning.

  Save Settings Dialog

  Important

  • After scanning from My Image Garden, the Save Settings dialog does not appear.

(3) Application Settings Area

• Open with an application

  Select this when you want to enhance or correct the scanned images.

  You can specify the application from the pop-up menu.

• Send to an application

  Select this when you want to use the scanned images as they are in an application that allows you to browse or organize images.

  You can specify the application from the pop-up menu.

• Send to a folder

  Select this when you also want to save the scanned images to a folder other than the one specified in Save in.

  You can specify the folder from the pop-up menu.

• Do not start any application

  Saves to the folder specified in Save in.

• Specify the application or folder in the dialog displayed by selecting Add... from the pop-up menu.

• Instructions

  Opens this guide.

• Defaults

  You can restore the settings in the displayed screen to the default settings.