Canon 820D - S Color Inkjet Printer User guide

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Printing with ZoomBrowser EX
ZoomBrowser EX enables you to import image data captured with digital cameras or scanners into
a computer and produce photo-quality printouts in a quick and easy fashion. Using ZoomBrowser
EX with a Canon BJ printer and a scanner or digital camera, you can enjoy superb-quality photo
prints.
Custom Layout Printing
(Artwork/Layout Album)
Printing a Photo Index
(Index Printing)
You can arrange images in a desired layout and
apply artwork including clipping, resizing, rotation,
text insertion, and ornamentation with photo
frames and background.
You can print a photo index that contains
thumbnails automatically arranged in a suita
b
layout for the selected thumbnail size (large,
medium, or small).

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Printing in a Specified Photo Size
(Fixed Photo Size Printing)
Printing in the Borderless Printing Mode
(Tiled photo)
You can print images in the specified photo
size.
You can print images with no margins around each
image, so that a single image is printed borderless
along the paper edges and multiple images are
arranged like tiles with no space between them
(available with BJ printers that support the
borderless printing feature).

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Printing on Canon Perforated Paper
You can easily make your images fit in a
sheet of Canon perforated paper.

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Basic Operation Procedure
The basic operation steps to capture, import, edit, and print photo images are summarized below.
STEP 1
Shooting / scanning
Acquire images with a digital camera or a scanner.

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STEP 2
Importing images
Start ZoomBrowser EX.
Using the Camera Window, import
images from a memory card or a
digital camera.
ZoomBrowser EX supports
some simple image editing
features.
The Automation wizard provides easy
means of importing images.

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STEP 3
Selecting a layout
Specify the print mode. Just follow the wizard to select a print mode option
from Artwork/Layout album, Index printing, Fixed photo size printing,
Borderless printing (Tiled photo), and Canon perforated paper printing.

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STEP 4
Applying artwork
You can apply artwork
including clipping, resizing,
adding text, and
ornamentation such as adding
photo frames or background
to the imported images.
STEP 5
Printing
The images can be printed on Canon
perforated paper (such as Photo Paper
Pro <PC-101S> or Glossy Photo Card
<FM-101>). Borderless printing is also
supported.
*Some features and paper sizes may not
be supported depending on the models of
printers.

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What are Canon Utilities?
Canon Utilities are the application softwares included in the BJ Solution Disk or Setup Software &
User’s Guide in the CD-ROM that comes with your BJ series printer. These utilities enable you to
display, save (import) to the computer's hard disk, edit, print the images captured using a digital
camera or scanner.
• ZoomBrowser EX
ZoomBrowser EX allows you to display a list of thumbnails (images stored in the internal memory
card), import them to your computer's hard disk, and print them in photo-quality using the BJ printer.
With ZoomBrowser EX, You can easily display, edit, and manage images stored in your computer’s
hard disk as well.
•PhotoRecord
With PhotoRecord used with ZoomBrowser EX, you can print the specified image in photo-quality
using the BJ printer. You can print automatically layouted multiple images on a single paper.
• PhotoStitch
PhotoStitch is an utility program for image merging and allows you to quickly create a panoramic
photo by mergng multiple images captured with your digital camera.
With PhotoStitch, you can merge any number of images vertically or horizontally, producing unique
posters or other photo-prints. The wide-mode merging feature is also useful when you want to
create a wide panoramic photo of a building or straight-lined object with straight lines as natural as
the original.

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Starting ZoomBrowser EX
This subsection describes how to start ZoomBrowser EX.
ZoomBrowser EX supports the following image file types:
bmp Windows bitmap
crw RAW
fpx Flachpix
jpg Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG)
tif Tagged Image File Format (TIFF)
pcd KODAK Photo CD
wmf Windows Metafile

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Steps
1From the Start menu, select Programs, Canon Utilities, ZoomBrowser EX, and
again ZoomBrowser EX.
Canon ZoomBrowser EX starts and ZoomBrowser EX application window opens.

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Note ³To learn more about the main window, refer to Basic Operations in the Browser
Display Area.

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When starting ZoomBrowser EX for the First Time...
When starting ZoomBrowser EX for the first time, you will see a message window as shown below.
Click the Yes button to register the Windows folder named My Picture as an Image Folder of
ZoomBrowser EX. This folder will become an image data storage folder and images imported from
a digital camera or scanner can be stored in this folder. ZoomBrowser displays the thumbnails of
the images stored in this folder in the Browser Display Area.
Click the No button, if you do not want to register the My Picture folder to the ZoomBrowser EX.
This message appears only when the ZoomBrowser EX is started for the first time.
For more detailed information on registering Image Folders, refer to Image Database.

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Creating Panoramic Photo Using PhotoStitch
PhotoStitch is an easy-to-use image merger utility which enbles you to create a panoramic photo by
merging multiple photos taken with a digital camera.
Steps
1In the Browser Display Area of the ZoomBrowser EX, select multiple photo images
(thumbnails) to merge.
2Open the Edit menu and select the PhotoStitch command.
PhotoStitch starts and loads the selected photo images.
Merge as many images as you like either horizontally or vertically by a simple operation, and create
posters and other photo-prints. Also try the wide-mode merging which shows buildings and other
straight-lined objects with straight lines as natural as the original.
For more details on the merging procedure, refer to the Help of PhotoStitch.

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Using ZoomBrowser EX
This section describes the basic operations and the functions of the ZoomBrowser EX.
•Basic Operations in the Browser Display Area
•Changing View Mode in the Browser Display Area
•Image Database
•Processing Image Using Image Viewer
•Slide Show
•Time Tunnel
•Adding Sound to Image
•Processing Image for Sending by E-mail
•Editing Image Using Other Image Processing Programs

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Basic Operations in the Browser Display Area
Part names and basic operations in the Browser Display Area are described in this section.
For more detailed information on working with ZoomBrowser EX, refer to the Help of ZoomBrowser
EX.
Tree View
Displays all the Image Folders and their subfolders that are
registered to ZoomBrowser EX.
When a Canon digital camera is connected to your com-
puter, double-click the Canon Camera icon, and you can
view all the photos stored in the memory card of camera in
the Camera Window.
Browser Display Area
Displays the contents of the Image Folder that is
currently selected in the Tree View. Individual
images are shown as thumbnails. You can change
the thumbnail size, the way the information is dis-
played, the viewing modes, and other settings.
Thumbnails
Reduced images of the files contained in the folder that is currently
selected in the Tree View. You can select images for processing by
clicking the thumbnails.To select two or more images, click the thumb-
nails one by one while pressing the Ctrl key.
The information screen shows the number
of subfolders and image files contained in
the current folder.
Control Panel
Control buttons are provided
here. Manage and process
images shown in the
Browser Display Area by
clicking these buttons.

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MINIMIZE buttons
Click this button to reduce the Control Panel into a minia-
ture window (see the figure on the right). You can mouse-
drag it anywhere on the computer screen.
View Mode buttons
ZOOM MODE
Click the ZOOM MODE button on the Control Panel to enter the Zoom mode. The Zoom mode displays the
images contained in the folder currently selected in the Tree View, in the reduced form of thumbnails. If the folder
contains subfolders, the contents of the subfolders are also displayed, as thumbnails grouped under subfolder
names.
SCROLL MODE
Click the SCROLL MODE button on the Control Panel to enter the Scroll mode. The Scroll mode displays the
images and subfolders contained in the folder currently selected in the Tree View. The images are shown as
thumbnails, while the subfolders are shown as folder icons.
When in the Scroll Mode, you can zoom in on a desired folder and view its contents, by double-clicking the folder
SHOW PROPERTIES button
Click this to view the information about the image
currently selected in the Browser Display Area.
REFRESH button
Click this to refresh the display of selected images
(thumbnails) or the contents of the selected folder.
IMPORT IMAGES button
Click this to import images from an input device
(digital camera, memory card, etc.), currently con-
nected to the computer.
PRINT button
Click this to open the Print submenu in which you can
select Layout or Index printing option. When Layout is
selected, the PhotoRecord Print Modes window opens and
the Print Modes wizard becomes ready to start.
VIEW IMAGE button
Click this to open the Image Viewer and view the selected
DELETE button
Click this to delete the images or folders currently selected in the Browser Display Area.

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Tool switching buttons
Click these buttons to select a tool (mouse pointer) used in the Browser Display Area.
Button Name Function
SELECT
button
Turns the mouse pointer into a selection tool.Select this tool for the usual
operations in ZoomBrowser EX, for example, selecting images and folders.
ZOOM IN
button
Turns the mouse pointer into a zoom-in tool.Select this tool for zooming in
or (enlarging) the images (thumbnails) in the Browser Display Area.
ZOOM OUT
button
Turns the mouse pointer into a zoom-out tool.Select this tool for zooming
out or (reducing) the images (thumbnails) in the Browser Display Area.