| The scanner should be turned on before you turn on the computer.
The On switch is located on the right side towards the back of the
scanner.
Lift the cover of the scanner and place your graphic or photograph onto the glass face down and top side up, with the original hugging the top and right edges of the glass frame. |
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| In Windows 95, choose the Start: Programs: HP DeskScan II: HP DeskScan
II menu command to open DeskScan II. The following application
window will then appear on your screen.
The application starts with the same Type: and Path: settings
that the last person using the program entered, plus some default settings
for Brightness, Contrast, Scaling, and Width
and Height. In this case, the size of the final scan will be 8.51"
x 14.00" (much larger than the actual graphic), producing a large file
size of 1962 KB.
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| In order to see and edit your graphic, click on the Preview
button. The scanner will then do a quick (well, sort of quick) scan of
your graphic, and display a small picture of it in the white area on the
right of the DeskScan II window.
The black selection box around the graphic shows what part of the scanner window will be selected for the final scan. The scanner software can usually tell the difference between your graphic and the white cover of the scanner, so it automatically selects just your graphic. Notice that the size of the scanned image will now be 1.76": x 1.99", and the file size has shrunk considerably to 57 KB. |
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| Since the image is pretty small, click on the Zoom button to
fill the window with your selection.
You can now crop the image by moving or resizing the black selection box to include only the part of the graphic you want scanned. To move the selection box, position the mouse pointer anywhere inside the box so that it changes into a 4 headed arrow, and then drag the box to where you want it. To resize the selection box, position the mouse pointer on top of an edge or corner of the box so that it changes into a 2 headed arrow, and then drag the edge or corner to where you want it. In this case, the selection box was dragged down and to the right, and the right and bottom edges were moved in to the edges of the apple. The scanned image will now be 1.25" x 1.47". The graphic can be scaled (reduced or enlarged) by moving the Scaling slider. The new Width: and Height: will be updated as you move the slider. The scaling was left at 100% for this example. You can also adjust the Brightness and Contrast of the graphic using the sliders below those headings. |
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| The final selections to make are the image Type: and image Path:.
The image Type: is related to the original graphic that you are scanning. A list of the possible choices are shown in the upper right screen shot. Most of the time you will want to choose Sharp Color Photo or Sharp Millions of Colors, but a different choice may match up better with your particular original. The image Path: determines the resolution of the final scan in dots per inch (dpi). The list of possible choices shown in the lower right screen shot doesn't give the image dpi resolution, but instead gives a choice of viewing destinations for the final scanned image. If the final scanned image is only going to be seen on a computer monitor (Web page or computer presentation), then you will want to choose Screen (72 dpi). If the image is going to be included in a Word or WordPerfect document and printed to a LaserJet (150, 300, or 600 dpi), you may want to choose one of those paths instead. Keep in mind that the higher the image resolution, the larger the final file size will be. |
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| To finish the scanning process, click on the Final button. The scanner will scan the selected area of your graphic and then present the Save As... dialog box. You will want to save your image in a TIFF format and give it a .tif extension. In this example, I would save the image in a file called apple.tif. |
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