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- Page 2 Neither is any liability assumed for damages resulting from the use of the information contained herein. Neither Seiko Epson Corporation nor its affiliates shah be liable to the purchaser of this product or third parties for damages, losses, costs, or expenses incurred by purchase or third parties as a result of: accident, misuse, or abuse of this product or unauthorized modifications, repairs, or alterations to this product.
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Page 3: Table Of Contents
Chapter 3 Accessing EPSON TWAIN ..... 3-2 Using the Easy Screen ......3-3 Selecting the Document Source . - Page 4 Exiting EPSONS can! II ......5-5 Troubleshooting Chapter 6 Problems Using the EPSON Scanning Utilities ..6-1 Problems With Image QuaIity A p p e n d i x...
- Page 5 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.
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Page 6: Introduction
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 ®... -
Page 7: How To Use This Manual
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. -
Page 8: 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,... - Page 9 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.
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Page 10: Installing Your Software
Installing the Scanning Utilities Follow these steps to install EPSON Scanning Utilities: 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. - Page 11 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.
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Page 12: Testing The Scanning Utilities
Utilities again. 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 EPSON Scan! II icon. -
Page 13: Calibrating Your System
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... -
Page 14: Calibrating Your Monitor To Your Scanner
TWAIN. Performing Screen Calibration Follow these steps to perform a screen calibration: 1. Select EPSON Scan! II in the EPSON Scan! II folder. 2. Choose Screen Calibration from the Calibrate menu. You see this screen: 3. Look at the display from a distance and adjust the slide bar until the separate rows have the same basic color intensity. -
Page 15: Enabling Screen Calibration
(the default setting). Follow these steps: 1. Start EPSON Scan! II, if necessary. 2. From the File menu, choose Acquire to start EPSON TWAIN. You see the EPSON TWAIN screen. If the screen is fairly small and has an Advanced button, it is the easy screen. -
Page 16: Exporting A Calibration Chart
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. - Page 17 Scan! II folder. Exit EPSON Scan! II. Start your image editing application. Open the calibration chart file you just created in the EPSON Scan! II folder. The calibration chart appears in the application window. It contains nine blocks of color gradations, some grayscale gradations, and a black border on three sides.
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Page 18: Creating Printer Calibration Profiles
Follow these steps to create a calibration profile for each color printer you want to use: 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. - Page 19 5. Click Continue. You see the EPSON TWAIN advanced screen. (If you see the easy screen, click Advanced.) such as COLOR1 PRINTER.
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Page 20: Scanning Using Calibration
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. - Page 21 (If you see the easy screen, click Advanced.) 3. Click Destination to open the Destination dialog box. 4. If you have one of the EPSON Stylus printers listed on page 2-4, select the printer from the Destination Name pull-down menu. The Calibration description is assigned automatically.
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Page 22: Capturing Images From Within Applications
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. -
Page 23: Accessing Epson Twain
Accessing EPSON TWAIN To access EPSON TWAIN, choose Acquire (or Place, or the appropriate command) from the File menu within your application. You may then have to select maybe EPSON TWAIN) from a submenu. When TWAIN opens, you see either the easy or advanced screen, depending on which was opened last. -
Page 24: Using The Easy Screen
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:... -
Page 25: Selecting The Image Type
Image Type and Destination pull-down menus. Leave the settings for these options at their defaults, listed in the Appendix. If you have a scanner that supports Text Enhancement Technology, see “Using Text Enhancement Technology” on page 3-9 for additional OCR instructions. -
Page 26: Using The Advanced Screen
Image Type and Destination pull-down menus. Leave the settings for these options at their defaults, listed in the Appendix. If you have a scanner that supports Text Enhancement Technology, see “Using Text Enhancement Technology” on page 3-9 for additional OCR instructions. -
Page 27: Modifying An Image Type
Modifying an Image Type To modify an Image Type setting, choose the Image Type button. You see the following screen: Not all options on this screen are available with all scanners, Image Types, or Pixel Depth settings. The Image Type options are described in the following table. - Page 28 On or Off TET ** When possible, let your image editing software perform halftoning. ** The Text Enhancement Technology option does not appear unless your scanner supports this feature. Capturing Images From Within Application Function Determines tones by data format...
- Page 29 256 Color Million Colors Dither options are not available for the ES-300C scanner. * When you choose 3 pass scanning, your application does not use the Calibration, Color Filter, or Saturation features in TWAIN; see Chapter 4 for more information.
- Page 30 To delete an existing image type, select it from the Image Type Name pull-down menu and choose Delete; then choose OK. Using Text Enhancement Technology EPSON’s Text Enhancement Technology filters out background “noise” in text images, such as background colors, and increases the threshold levels so that your OCR (optical character recognition) software can recognize the text more easily.
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Page 31: Modifying The Destination
Note: If your scanner does not support Text Enhancement Technology, the option does not appear or is grayed out in the Image Type dialog box. Modifying the Destination The Destination dialog box allows you to define different resolutions for each destination output device. You can also use it to modify, add, or delete a calibration profile for your output device. - Page 32 110 with a 300 dpi laser printer and up to 170 with a 600 dpi laser printer. For EPSON Stylus 720 dpi output and from 100 to 150 dpi for 360 dpi output.
- Page 33 TWAIN can then use the profile as it scans to create the best quality image. EPSON TWAIN Scanning Utilities provide many predefined printer calibration profiles, including those for the EPSON Stylus color printers, as listed below: General...
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Page 34: Previewing And Adjusting The Image
To delete an existing Destination, select it from the Destination Name pull-down menu and choose Delete; then choose OK Previewing and Adjusting the Image Once you have selected the Image Type and Destination settings, you can preview and adjust your image before you scan it. - Page 35 Adjusting the preview area Once you see a preview of the image on the screen, you can define the area you want to scan or select the entire image area. To define a specific area, position the mouse pointer at a comer of the area;...
- Page 36 The size of the full image or the selected area appears in the Width and Height fields. You can type new values in these fields to define a selection area of a specific size. You can select the Lock icons to keep specific values in either the Width field or the Height field.
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Page 37: Scanning The Image
Scanning the Image When you are finished selecting settings on either the easy or advanced screen, and the image you are scanning looks just right in the advanced preview window, you can scan the image by choosing the Scan button. If you choose Scan from the easy screen, TWAIN automatically selects the entire image and scans it. -
Page 38: Using Special Effects
Chapter 4 Using Special Effects The EPSON TWAIN advanced screen gives you many options for editing images before you scan them. If you have image editing software, you can achieve all of the special effects described in this chapter-and more-using that software. - Page 39 The ES-300C does not support calibration. Note: If Apple ColorSync is not installed in your Macintosh Control Panel and Extensions folder, or if 3 Pass scanning is selected in the Image Type dialog box, you cannot select the Apple Colorsync feature in Configuration dialog box.
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Page 40: Using Image Controls
When Threshold is available, the other image control settings are not available. Note: The ES-300C scanner does not support Contrast, Highlight, Shadow, Sharpness, and Threshold settings. Follow these steps to use the Image Controls: 1. From the advanced screen, click the preview icon, display your image in the preview window. - Page 41 2. Choose the Image Controls icon. You see the following dialog box: 3. Adjust the settings until the image in the preview window looks the way you want it to look. See the following table for guidelines on changing these settings. Method Value fields Slide bars...
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Page 42: Adjusting Gamma Correction
4. When the image in the preview window looks the way you want, close the Image Controls dialog box. 5. You can now scan the image into your application. You can return any option you’ve modified to its default setting by holding down the Option key and clicking the option’s slide bar. - Page 43 Adjust the gamma curve settings using the slide bar. You see the effects of the new settings in the preview window and the Gamma Correction Name changes to User Defined. If you choose the Comparison icon to the left of the graph, you see either three or five comparison views with different gamma settings.
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Page 44: Adjusting Colors
Adjusting Colors After you have previewed the image, choose the Color Adjustment icon, Note: Color Adjustment settings are not available for the ES-300C. You can adjust these settings in the Color Adjustment dialog box, as described in this section: Gray Balance S a t u r a t i o n Color Filter. -
Page 45: Setting The Gray Balance
Setting the Gray Balance Neutral shades of gray are produced by mixing the three colors used to make up the image in approximately equal proportions. Sometimes, however, the resulting gray shades are not truly neutral. To create a more neutral gray, adjust the Gray Balance setting. -
Page 46: Using Color Filters
Note: To scan a negative image and invert it, your scanner must have a Transparency Unit installed and you must select Transparency Unit as your Document Source option. -
Page 47: Using Automatic Features
Using Automatic Features The TWAIN advanced screen offers two automatic features: Auto Exposure, which automatically adjusts the exposure of an image and sets the Highlight and Shadow settings Auto Locate, which locates and selects the target image from within the preview image. Note: When you scan using the easy screen, both automatic features are always in effect. -
Page 48: Saving And Exporting Image
Saving a Scanned Image Before you export an image, you need to save it in its original EPSON Scan! II format. Otherwise, you will not be able to retrieve it again in EPSON Scan! II. Follow these steps: 1. Start EPSON Scan! II, if necessary. -
Page 49: Exporting An Image
6. Type a filename for your image in the Save image as field. 7. Click Save. The image is saved in the EPSON Scan! II file format. You can now open this file in EPSON Scan! II and export it with a different format, as described below. - Page 50 If you selected the TIFF6.0(JPEG) or JPEG format, or you selected the PICT format and turned EPSON Scan! II allows you to choose the image quality. Since JPEG uses a Lossy compression scheme, selecting higher quality gives you less compression. To change the image quality, move the Quality slide bar to the desired setting.
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Page 51: Acquiring And Exporting An Image
Acquiring and Exporting an Image EPSON Scan! II allows you to scan and export an image directly into a selected file format without displaying it on the screen. Since the image is not displayed, you can perform scanning operations more quickly. -
Page 52: Exiting Epsons Can! Ii
You can now import this file into your application software; see your software manual for instructions. Exiting EPSON Scan! II To exit EPSON Scan! II, make sure you have saved or exported your image file. Then choose Quit from the File menu. Saving and Exporting Images... -
Page 53: Chapter 6 Troubleshooting
Problems Using the EPSON Scanning Utilities When you select a TWAIN data source, EPSON Scanners is not listed. Either the EPSON Scanning Utilities were not installed or they were not installed correctly. - Page 54 Acquire from your application software. You may have more than one TWAIN screen open at once. Reset your Macintosh and use only one active TWAIN screen. Your scanned image may be too big. Reset your system and reduce the size of the scanned image.
- Page 55 See if your Macintosh has enough application memory to run your software. If you are running other software at the same time, you may not have enough memory left. See the section on memory allocation in your Macintosh manual. The scanner does not start scanning.
- Page 56 The Sharpness setting is grayed out in the Image Controls dialog Your scanner does not support the Sharpness feature. The Document Source setting is grayed out in the EPSON TWAIN screen. This is normal. You must first install an optional Automatic Document Feeder or a Transparency Unit to be able to select these as your Document Source.
- Page 57 You can define your own settings; see Chapter 3. The Halftone setting in the Image Type dialog box is grayed out. Halftone and dither settings on most EPSON scanners are only available when the Pixel Depth setting is set to Black & White or 8 Colors (1 or 2 bits per pixel per color).
- Page 58 If you scanned an image at a high resolution (800 dpi) and at the maximum allowable width using the Color Photo Image Type setting, restart your Macintosh and reduce the resolution and the width of the scanned image. Then try scanning again.
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Page 59: Problems With Image Quality
Reset the system and reduce the number of pages you are scanning with the Automatic Document Feeder. After closing the EPSON TWAIN screen, a partial image of the screen appears over the scanned image. Scroll the application’s frame to clear the partial image. - Page 60 Make sure the document is placed flat on the document table. Check your Gamma Correction setting. Make the Brightness setting darker. Make sure you have calibrated your monitor and printer to your scanner, and that you are using the resulting calibration profile. See Chapter 2 for more information 6-8 Troubleshooting...
- Page 61 If this happens only on your printed image, your printer or its print head may have a problem or need cleaning; see your printer manual. If this happens on both your screen and printout, the scanner’s sensor may be malfunctioning. Consult your dealer. Troubleshooting 6-9...
- Page 62 The printed color seems different from that of the originals. Check that you have correctly performed the printer calibration process in EPSON Scan! II using the correct printer calibration profile. Recalibrate and try again. The colors in a printed image may not match the colors of the original image exactly because the scanning and printing processes use two different color interpreting technologies.
- Page 63 The image cannot be printed on the printer, the printout is garbled, or the printout is not an image. Check that the printer is properly connected to your Macintosh and is set up correctly; see your printer manual. Check that your software is properly installed and set up for your printer;...
- Page 64 See your scanner documentation for more information. You may need to choose a lower resolution for the video display setting using Macintosh documentation for more information. If you change Monitor settings, perform another screen calibration. 6-12 Troubleshooting Type and try scanning again.
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Page 65: Appendix
Appendix This appendix lists the default settings for the Image Type and Destination options in EPSON TWAIN. Default Image Type settings lmage type color Photo 256 Cdors Black & White Photo Color Halftone Color Drawing Black & white Halftone tine Art... - Page 66 Default Destination settings I Destination Laser 600 dpi Stylus COLOR Stylus Pro XL Stylus Pro Stylus COLOR I I Stylus COLOR IIs 2 Appendix (continued) Default settings 200 dpi resolution for line drawings and halftone images, 200 dpi resolution for photos, and calibration for Inkjet printers 300 dpi resolution far line drawings.
- Page 67 Icon Glossary This glossary describes the TWAIN icons. If you want to know what a specific icon does, locate the icon in this glossary; then read its description. Some icons open dialog boxes that contain more icons. Icons in the dialog box are described after the initial icon.
- Page 68 Auto Locate. Allows you to automatically select just the image. If your preview window contains more than one image and you only need one, roughly select the image you want by dragging the mouse pointer and clicking the Auto Locate icon. When you select Scan from the easy screen, TWAIN uses this setting.
- Page 69 Shadow Comparison. Allows you to compare three or five image samples of varying shadow intensity or color. The middle sample reflects the current shadow setting. Sharpness Comparison. Allows you to compare three or five image samples of varying sharpness. The middle sample reflects the current sharpness setting.
- Page 70 Color Adjustment. Opens the Color Adjustment dialog box, which lets you adjust the colors in an image using the settings described below. Gray Balance Comparison. Allows you to compare three or five-image samples with varying casts of gray so you can select the most neutral gray.
- Page 71 Color Filter An EPSON TWAIN setting that lets you modify the color of an entire image. Color Separation A process to convert full-color images into a limited number of primary colors.
- Page 72 Destination A set of resolution and calibration settings that match the characteristics of the scan to the final output device. EPSON TWAlN provides several Destination settings to adjust your scanned image to suit the output device you intend to use. You can also define your own Destination settings.
- Page 73 Gray Balance An EPSON TWAIN software setting that lets you adjust the grayness of any area of an image. You can remove color casts and discoloration to make the grays in an image more neutral. Grayscale The measure of grayness of any area of an image. When an image is scanned, the gray level of each pixel is determined.
- Page 74 Picture Element. Each image is composed of a number of pixels. Pixels are sometimes called dots. Pixel Depth An EPSON TWAIN setting that lets you select the amount of color information in a file. Port An interface channel through which data is transmitted between devices.
- Page 75 SCSI Small Computer System Interface. EPSON scanners use the SCSI interface to communicate between the Macintosh and the scanner. Shadow The darkest area of an image. The range between highlight and shadow determines the range and the color differentiation of the image.
- Page 76 2-1 to 2-3, 4-2 system, 2-1 to 2-10 Calibration profile creating 2-6 to 2-8 enabling, 4-2 EPSON Stylus printers, 2-4, 2-9, 3-12 exporting chart, 2-4 to 2-6 modifying, 3-12 scanning using, 2-8 to 2-9 selecting, 3-12 Capturing images, 3-1 to 3-16...
- Page 77 2-6 Exporting images, 5-1 to 5-5 File 24-bit data, 3-15, 6-3 EPSON Scan! II 5-1 5-2 formats, 2-5, 5-1 to 5-5, 6-9 size, 3-11, 3-14 to 3-15, 6-5, 6-12 Flatbed setting, 3-3 Gamma correction 4-5 to 4-6, 6-8 to...
- Page 78 Invert feature, 4-9, 6-5 JPEG, 5-3, 5-5 Line Art, 3-11, 4-5, 6-11 Lock setting, 3-15 Lossy compression scheme, 5-3, 5-5 Macintosh requirements, Intro-2, 6-2 Manual, how to use, intro-3 Measurement units, 3-14 Memory, 6-2 to 6-3 Moire patterns, 6-11 Monitor calibration, see Calibration...
- Page 79 Calibration Printer driver, 6-12 Problems EPSON scanning Utilities, 6-1 to 6-7 Image quality, 6-7 to 6-12 Profile, see Calibration profile Quality setting, 3-7 to 3-8 Quality slide bar, 5-3, 5-5 READY light, 6-3 Requirements, system, Intro-2, 6-2...
- Page 80 3-16 special effects, 4-1 to 4-10 testing, 1-3 Units, measurement, 3-14 Utilities, EPSON Scanning see EPSON Scan! II and TWAIN Variations between samples option, Video display, 3-13, 6-10, 6-12 Warnings, Intro-3 Width setting, 3-14 to 3-15 Zoom Preview, 3-13, 4-3, 6-10...