Canon CANOSCAN N650U User manual

ScanGear CS-U 5.7
for CanoScan N650U/N656U/N1220U Color Scanner
User’s Guide

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Copyright ©2000 Canon Inc.
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All other names are trademarks of their respective companies.
In this manual, screen shots are taken with Windows 98. When you use
Windows 2000 Professional, different screens may appear from this
manual.

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Chapter 1 Before You Begin................................ 5
Welcome to ScanGear CS-U ...................................................... 6
System Requirements................................................................ 8
Hardware ............................................................................ 8
Software ............................................................................. 9
Getting Help in ScanGear CS-U............................................... 10
Chapter 2 Installing ScanGear CS-U.................. 11
Installing ScanGear CS-U......................................................... 12
Installing ScanGear CS-U ................................................... 13
Uninstalling ScanGear CS-U .................................................... 16
Uninstalling ScanGear CS-U using the CanoScan Setup Utility
CD-ROM ....................................................................... 16
Uninstalling ScanGear CS-U (Windows 98) ........................ 17
Chapter 3 Simple Mode and Advanced Mode.. 19
What are the Simple Mode and Advanced Mode?............... 20
Switching Between the Simple and Advanced Modes ........ 21
Simple Mode Main Window................................................... 22
Advanced Mode Main Window.............................................. 23
Chapter 4 What is on the screen?..................... 25
Main Window.......................................................................... 26
Toolbar..................................................................................... 27
Scanning Buttons..................................................................... 30
Simple Mode Main Window................................................... 31
Advanced Mode Main Window.............................................. 36
The Main Sheet ................................................................. 36
The Tone Sheet.................................................................. 40
Contrast/Brightness Sheet ......................................... 43
Gamma Sheet........................................................... 44
Histogram Sheet ....................................................... 46
Special Tone Curves Sheet......................................... 48
Editing a Special Tone Curve Directly ......................... 49
The Halftone Sheet............................................................ 51
The Scanner Sheet............................................................. 52

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Chapter 5 Scanning an Original........................ 55
Preparing for the Scanning Job.............................................. 56
Quick Start ............................................................................... 57
Previewing and Scanning an Original.................................... 59
Scanning in the Simple Mode ............................................ 59
Scanning in the Advanced Mode ....................................... 64
Chapter 6 Settings in the Windows Control Panel.. 68
Opening Scanners and Cameras Properties........................... 69
General Settings ...................................................................... 71
Events Settings......................................................................... 72
Preferences Settings................................................................ 73
Color Management Settings................................................... 75
Chapter 7 Troubleshooting................................ 76
Pre-Scan Checklist.................................................................... 77
How to Avoid Problems .......................................................... 78
Troubleshooting Checklist ...................................................... 80
Glossary ........................................................... 85
Index ........................................................... 99

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Welcome to ScanGear CS-U
System Requirements
Getting Help in ScanGear CS-U

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Welcome to ScanGear CS-U
Welcome to Canon ScanGear CS-U 5.7 software for Windows 98 and
Windows 2000 Professional.
ScanGear CS-U 5.7 (hereafter referred to as ScanGear CS-U) will provide
flexible, efficient image enhancement tools for scanning with your
CanoScan N650U/N656U/N1220U Scanner by providing an interface
with a variety of TWAIN-compliant software applications. (TWAIN ☞p.97)
ScanGear CS-U has a number of powerful features that help you achieve
peak performance with your scanner. Using ScanGear CS-U, you can
preview and adjust an image before the image is scanned and acquired
by the parent software application.
Here is a quick summary of the important features of ScanGear CS-U:
• Two operation modes, Simple Mode which allows you to select all
optimum settings with one selection, and Advanced Mode which
allows you to create professional color and other enhancements for
artistic effects.
• Flexible, fully automatic image acquisition, and pre-scan image
manipulation prior to passing data to the image application
• TWAIN 1.6 compliant
• Text Enhanced mode for OCR applications
• Canon ColorGear (Color Matching software technology)
• Automatic preview or preview image cache
• ScanGear CS-U can run with or without its main window,
depending on the acquiring application.

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Normally when you start a scanning job, you will see the ScanGear CS-U
main window with its toolbar, Preview Area, and tabs.
However, some software applications may not open the ScanGear CS-U
main window. When this occurs you cannot use the settings described in
this user’s guide because the host software application will provide the
settings so you can change the image after it is acquired. When a
software application uses ScanGear CS-U without opening the ScanGear
CS-U main window, this is called the windowless mode.

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System Requirements
The hardware and software listed below is required to use ScanGear
CS-U.
Hardware
• You can use following scanner with ScanGear CS-U: CanoScan
N650U/N656U/N1220U.
• IBM PC or its compatible on which Windows 98 or Windows 2000
Professional can run
• Memory (RAM) required is determined by your system:
Windows 98 32 MB (64 MB or more recommended)
Windows 2000 Professional
32 MB (64 MB or more recommended)
• 10 MB of free disk space for ScanGear installation
• Free disk space, at least 50 MB. The amount of space required
depends on the scanning area and the Color Mode or Resolution
settings (color images scanned at higher resolution require more
storage space).
Note
Before you scan an image, check the file size in the
status bar. You should have at least twice that amount
of free space available on the hard disk.
• Minimum requirement for monitor: 800 x 600 resolution
(minimum), 256-color (higher resolution with TrueColor
recommended).

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Software
• Microsoft®Windows®98 or Microsoft®Windows 2000 Professional
• TWAIN-compliant parent software application

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Getting Help in ScanGear CS-U
For information about using ScanGear CS-U, open the on-line Help by
clicking the Help button on the toolbar or in the dialog boxes.
Click the Contents or Index tab to see if the topic you are looking for is
covered elsewhere in on-line Help.

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Installing ScanGear
CS-U
Installing ScanGear CS-U
Uninstalling ScanGear CS-U

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Installing ScanGear CS-U
Before you install ScanGear CS-U, make sure that you have accomplished
the following tasks:
•Make sure that the computer is equipped with an enabled USB
port. In My Computer - Control Panel - System icon, click the
Device Manager tab and double-click “Universal serial bus
controler”. If you can see the names of the Host Controller and
USB Root Hub displayed, the computer is equipped with an
enabled USB port. Some computers may require enabling the USB
function with a BIOS setting. For details about enabling the USB
port with the BIOS setting, see your computer manual.
•Make sure the scanner is connected to a computer.
•If a previous version of ScanGear CS is installed on your computer,
uninstall it before you install ScanGear CS-U 5.7.
Note
•With Windows 2000 Professional, ensure that you log on
as an Administrator to install/uninstall the software.
•If ScanGear CS-U has already been installed according to
the instructions in the Getting Started guide that came
with the scanner, there is no need to perform the
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Installing ScanGear CS-U
Follow this procedure to install ScanGear CS-U. To perform this
procedure you need CanoScan Setup Utility CD-ROM.
1. Connect the scanner and computer with the USB cable. Then turn
on the computer.
A brief message will tell you that an unknown device has been
detected, then the Add New Hardware Wizard dialog box opens.
2. Click the Next button.

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3. Confirm that the first button is selected (Search for the best driver
for your device) and click the Next button.
4. Insert the CanoScan Setup Utility CD-ROM into the CD-ROM drive.
5. If you use the English version (uni-language) CanoScan Setup Utility
CD-ROM, select the “CD-ROM drive” then click the Next button.
If you use the multi-language CanoScan Setup Utility CD-ROM,
select the “Specify a location:” and click the Browse button. In the
Browse for Folders dialog, navigate in the CD-ROM drive to find
the Scangear folder and select the English folder then click the OK
button. Finally click the Next button.

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6. Confirm the name of the scanner is displayed, and click the Next
button to start copying the files.
7. When you are prompted to insert the Windows 98 CD-ROM, after
clicking the OK button, click the Browse button . Specify the
CanoScan Setup Utility CD-ROM drive as the file source, then click
the OK button.
8. Click the Finish button to complete the installation procedure.

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Uninstalling ScanGear CS-U
Uninstalling ScanGear CS-U using the CanoScan
Setup Utility CD-ROM
Always uninstall ScanGear CS-U with this procedure if you
are using Windows 2000 Professional.
1. Place the CanoScan Setup Utility CD-ROM in the drive.
2. Click the [Uninstall the Software] button in the CD-ROM’s menu
window.
3. Click the [Uninstall ScanGear CS-U] button in the Uninstall menu
window.
4. Follow the on-screen instructions to complete the procedure.
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Uninstalling ScanGear CS-U (Windows 98)
Follow the procedure below if you use Windows 98 and cannot uninstall
ScanGear CS-U using the Uninstall menu of the CanoScan Setup Utility
CD-ROM.
1. Click the Start button, point to Settings, and click Control Panel.
2. Double-click the Scanners and Cameras icon.

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3. Click the name of the scanner to highlight it then click the Remove
button.
When the scanner is not connected to the computer, the name of the
scanner will not be displayed so it cannot be uninstalled. Before you
uninstall the scanner, make sure that it was connected to the computer
when the system was started up.
4. Click the OK button to close the dialog box.
5. Double-click the “System”icon in the Control Panel, click the
“Device Manager”tab and search for the “Other Devices”
category. If “CanoScan”appears, select it and click the “Remove”
button. Click the “OK”button after “CanoScan”is removed.
6. Delete the Canon Inc.N065U.INF (or Canon Inc.N122U.INF )file
from the following folder:
C:\Windows\Inf\Other
7. Delete the scanner folder:
C:\Windows\Twain_32\N065U
(or C:\Windows\Twain_32\N122U)

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Advanced Mode
What are the Simple Mode and Advanced
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Simple Mode Main Window
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What are the Simple Mode
and Advanced Mode?
You can run ScanGear CS-U in either of two modes: the Simple Mode
and Advanced Mode.
Simple Mode
The Simple Mode, as its name implies, is easy to use and fast. You can
set up a scanning job quickly just by selecting from the name that best
describes the job you want to execute: Color Photo, Color Photo Fine,
B&W Photo, and so on. All you have to do is select one Image Type
setting which sets up the scanning job for you automatically. You can
accept the settings and start the scanning job, or you can make small
adjustments to the settings before you begin. For routine scanning jobs
you can create your own Image Types and save them under a name that
will listed among the pre-defined selections.
Advanced Mode
The Advanced Mode presents more options which allow you to set up
professional quality scanning jobs. You can use precise settings to select
the scanning area in the Preview Area, adjust Color Mode and
Resolution, and take advantage of the wide selection of Tone options
(adjusting Contrast/Brightness, Gamma, Histogram, Special Tone Curve,
and Threshold).