Epson 1680 - Expression Special Edition User manual

Color Graphics Scanner
User’s Guide
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use with this EPSON scanner. EPSON is not responsible for any use of this information as applied to other
scanners.
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Approved Products by SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION.
A Note Concerning Responsible Use of Copyrighted Materials
Ink jet printers, digital cameras and scanners, like photocopiers and conventional cameras, can be misused by
improper copying and printing of copyrighted material. While some countries’ laws permit limited copying of
copyrighted material in certain circumstances, those circumstances may not be as broad as some people assume.
EPSON encourages each user to be responsible and respectful of the copyright laws when using digital cameras and
scanners.
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Micro Step Drive is a trademark, EPSON Expression and ColorTrue are registered trademarks, and EPSON Store
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General Notice: Other product names used herein are for identification purposes only and may be trademarks of
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Copyright © 2003 by Epson America, Inc. CPD-15926
4/03
Printed on recycled paper
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Contents
WELCOME 1
About Your Scanner 1
Getting More Information 2
Warnings, Cautions, Notes, and Tips 2
Viewing Your Electronic User’s Guide 3
Chapter 1 HOW TO SCAN 5
Placing Your Original Document 5
Using EPSON Scan 6
Starting Your Scan and Choosing a Mode 7
Scanning With EPSON Scan in Home Mode 8
Scanning With EPSON Scan in Office Mode 10
Scanning With EPSON Scan in Professional Mode 12
Selecting the Scanning Area in the Preview Window 16
Scanning Tips 17
Selecting Resolution 17
Scaling (Resizing) Images 18
Scanning Color Images 18
Chapter 2 USING OPTIONAL EQUIPMENT 19
Transparency Unit 20
Unpacking the Transparency Unit 20
Removing the Shipping Screw 21
Installing the Transparency Unit 21
Using the Film Guides 23
Scanning Reflective Documents 27
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Automatic Document Feeder 28
Unpacking the Automatic Document Feeder 28
Installing the Automatic Document Feeder 29
Loading Paper in the Automatic Document Feeder 31
Fixing Paper Jams 32
IEEE 1394 FireWire Scanner Interface Card 33
Installing the Card in Your Scanner 33
Connecting the Scanner to Your Computer 34
Chapter 3 MAINTENANCE 35
Transporting the Scanner 35
Transporting the Transparency Unit 36
Cleaning the Scanner 37
Chapter 4 SOLVING PROBLEMS 39
Diagnosing Scanner Problems 40
Checking the Scanner’s Lights 40
Problems and Solutions 41
Scanner Problems 41
Software Problems 43
Quality Problems 44
Uninstalling and Reinstalling EPSON Scan 49
Where To Get Help 51
EPSON Technical Support 51
Software Technical Support 52
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Appendix A SPECIFICATIONS 53
Appendix B REQUIREMENTS AND NOTICES 57
System Requirements 57
Windows 57
Macintosh 58
Important Safety Instructions 58
Declaration of Conformity 59
FCC Compliance Statement 60
ENERGY STAR Compliance 61
Warranty 61
INDEX 63
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Welcome
The EPSON Expression®1680 is a 48-bit color, professional scanner designed to
meet the needs of graphic arts professionals and business graphics users. Using
EPSON’s ColorTrue®II Imaging System, the scanner reproduces images with
amazingly accurate detail and color. Your scanner can achieve up to 1600 × 3200 dpi
hardware resolution with EPSON’s proprietary Micro Step Drive™technology, and is
one of the fastest scanners in its class.
About Your Scanner
Your EPSON Expression 1680 scanner comes with these features:
■Superior image quality with remarkable 1600 × 3200 dpi hardware resolution
■48-bit color and 3.6 Dmax optical density
■Easy-to-use scanner software with three scanning modes offering progressive levels
of control over the scanned image
■Optional transparency unit, automatic document feeder, and IEEE 1394
FireWire®scanner interface card
Note: The transparency unit comes with the Professional and Professional
FireWire models of the Expression 1680. The IEEE 1394 FireWire scanner
interface card is preinstalled on the Professional FireWire model.
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Getting More Information
There are several ways to learn more about your EPSON Expression 1680 scanner. In
addition to the printed materials, help utilities and electronic manuals are available.
Here’s where to look for help:
■EPSON Expression 1680 User’s Guide
Provides instructions on using EPSON Scan, including maintenance information
and troubleshooting tips. You installed an HTML version of this manual on your
computer when you installed the scanner software. See page 3 for instructions on
viewing the on-screen manual.
■On-Screen Help
For more information about your EPSON Scan software, click the Help button.
If you have the Professional or Professional FireWire model, most of the
applications that come with your scanner include on-screen help.
■Electronic Documents
For Professional or Professional FireWire models, LaserSoft Imaging™SilverFast,
®
Adobe®Photoshop Elements,
®
and MonacoEZcolor®include electronic manuals
in Adobe Acrobat PDF format.
If none of these sources answers your questions, please see “Where To Get Help” on
page 51.
Warnings, Cautions, Notes, and Tips
Please follow these guidelines as you read this manual:
Warning: Warnings must be followed carefully to avoid bodily injury.
Caution: Cautions must be observed to avoid damage to your equipment.
Note: Notes contain important information about your scanner.
Tip: Tips contain additional hints for great scanning.
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Viewing Your Electronic User’s Guide
An electronic version of this EPSON Expression 1680 User’s Guide was installed on
your computer when you installed the scanner software. You must have a web browser
(Netscape Navigator®or Microsoft®Internet Explorer, versions 3.0 or later) to
view it.
To open the manual, double-click the Exp1680 User’s Guide shortcut icon on your
desktop.
Your browser opens and you see this window:
Click on one of the page icons on the left side of the screen to move to that topic in
the manual.
Click a page
icon to view
its topic
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Chapter 1
How To Scan
This chapter gives you step-by-step instructions for scanning with EPSON Scan.
Follow the instructions here for:
■Placing your document on the scanner’s document table
■Starting EPSON Scan
■Scanning with each of the three scanning modes
■Using the preview window to select the area of your image that you want to scan
■Selecting resolution, resizing images, and scanning color images
Placing Your Original Document
This section explains how to position a photo or single-page document for scanning.
If you’re scanning film or slides, see “Using the Film Guides” on page 23 for
instructions on placing your transparencies (you must have the transparency unit
installed). If you’re scanning a multi-page document using the optional automatic
document feeder, see “Loading Paper in the Automatic Document Feeder” on
page 31.
Note: If you have a Professional or Professional FireWire model of the EPSON
Expression 1680, the transparency unit came with your scanner. Or you can order
the transparency unit and automatic document feeder from EPSON. See page 19
for ordering information.
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1. Raise the scanner cover and place your document face down on the document
table. Align it with the scales along the upper right corner of the document table.
2. Close the document cover slowly. Be careful not to move the document.
Tip: If the edges of your document don’t scan properly, move it in one-quarter
inch from the edges of the document table.
You can remove the document cover if you need to scan a thick item—such as a
photo in an album—that doesn’t fit under the cover. Simply lift the back of the
cover straight up. When you reattach the cover, line the rods up with the
positioning holes and lower the cover into place.
Using EPSON Scan
EPSON Scan provides three scanning modes to give you progressive levels of control
over your scanned image:
■Home Mode: Makes scanning quick and easy. It includes a simple interface,
automatic image adjustments, and preset configurations for various types of scans.
■Office Mode: Includes a basic interface with practical scan settings designed for
documents. Choose either this mode or Professional Mode to scan multi-page
documents on the optional automatic document feeder (see page 28). You cannot
use this mode to scan film or slides, and it is not recommended for photos.
■Professional Mode: Lets you manually configure advanced image settings,
including the histogram setting, tone, color depth, balance, saturation, brightness,
and contrast.
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Starting Your Scan and Choosing a Mode
You can use the import or acquire function of a TWAIN-compliant application such
as Adobe®Photoshop®to scan images directly into your application. Or you can scan
to your hard drive by starting EPSON Scan from the Windows®Start menu, or the
Macintosh®Apple®menu or Applications folder. You would then open the file in
another application to print it or modify it for the screen or World Wide Web.
Follow these steps to start EPSON Scan and choose a scanning mode:
1. Choose the Import (or Acquire) option in your application and choose EPSON
Expression 1680, or open EPSON Scan as follows:
■In Windows, click Start > Programs or All Programs > EPSON Scan >
EPSON Scan.
■In Mac OS X, double-click the EPSON Scan icon in your Applications
folder.
■In Mac OS 8.6 to 9.x, click EPSON Scan in the Apple menu.
Note: If you have multiple scanners installed, you are prompted to choose your
scanner. Click EPSON Expression 1680 and click OK.
2. Choose a mode from the Mode list at the top of the EPSON
Scan dialog box.
If you choose Home Mode, a preview scan opens
automatically. (This is the default. If you don’t want an
automatic preview, deselect Auto Preview on the EPSON Scan dialog box.)
3. Continue with the instructions for your mode:
■“Scanning With EPSON Scan in Home Mode” on page 8
■“Scanning With EPSON Scan in Office Mode” on page 10
■“Scanning With EPSON Scan in Professional Mode” on page 12
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Scanning With EPSON Scan in Home Mode
1. Start EPSON Scan and choose Home Mode from the Mode menu (see page 7).
You see this dialog box:
2. If you don’t see an automatic preview of your scan, click Preview.
3. Click the Auto Detect button in the preview window to automatically select
your entire photo or document, or click and drag to create a scanning selection
area (marquee). For more information on using marquees, see page 16.
Note: If the scanned image in the preview window has a blue box around it,
you’re previewing in thumbnail mode and won’t be able to create a marquee.
Click the arrow beside the Preview button in the EPSON Scan dialog box and
select Normal from the pull-down menu. Then click the Preview button to
preview in normal mode.
Select Home Mode
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4. Choose a Document Type from the list.
Note: If you’re scanning film, choose Color Negative Film, B&W Negative Film,
or Positive Film. If you’re scanning slides, choose Positive Film.
5. Choose an Image Type:
■Color for color photos or documents with color
■Grayscale for black-and-white photos or documents with grayscale images
■Black&White for plain text documents
6. Choose a Destination setting:
■Printer if you’re printing the image
■Screen/Web if you will only view your image on the screen
■Other if you’re shrinking or enlarging your image. Then choose the Target
Size for your final scanned image.
7. Select a Target Size if you want to specify any size other than that of the original
document.
8. Adjust the Brightness and Contrast settings, if necessary.
9. If you’re scanning printed materials, select Descreening Filter to reduce the
moiré patterns in the image.
10. Click Scan.
■If you’re scanning from an application, the image opens in your application
window. Click Close to close the EPSON Scan window.
■If you’re scanning to your hard drive, you
see a File Save Settings window. Type a
name for your file in the Prefix field, then
choose an image type and click OK. (For
more details, see the EPSON Scan
on-screen Help.)
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Scanning With EPSON Scan in Office Mode
1. Start EPSON Scan and choose Office Mode from the Mode menu (see page 7).
You see this dialog box:
2. Click Preview to see a preview of your scan.
3. Click the Auto Detect button in the preview window to automatically select
your entire document, or click and drag in the preview window to create a
scanning selection area (marquee). For more information on using marquees, see
page 16.
4. Choose an Image Type:
■Color for documents with color
■Grayscale for documents with grayscale images
■Black&White for plain text documents
Select Office Mode
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5. Choose the Document Source:
■Document Table for documents placed on the scanner’s document table (See
page 5.)
■ADF for documents loaded in the optional automatic document feeder (You
must have the automatic document feeder installed to see this option; see
page 28.)
■Auto Detect to allow the scanner to automatically detect whether your
document is on the document table or loaded in the automatic document
feeder (You must have the automatic document feeder installed to see this
option; see page 28.)
6. Select the Size of your document, or select Auto Detect in the Size list to let the
scanner automatically detect the document size.
Note: The Orientation option is not functional for the Expression 1680.
7. Make any of these adjustments, as necessary:
■Select a resolution
■Adjust the Brightness and Contrast settings for your image
■If you’re scanning printed materials, select Descreening Filter to reduce the
moiré patterns in the image
■To sharpen the image, select Unsharp Mask Filter
8. Click Scan.
■If you’re scanning from an application,
the image opens in your application
window. Click Close to close the EPSON
Scan window.
■If you’re scanning to your hard drive, you
see a File Save Settings window. Type a
name for your file in the Prefix field, then
choose an image type. (For more details,
see the EPSON Scan on-screen Help.)
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Scanning With EPSON Scan in Professional Mode
1. Start EPSON Scan and choose Professional Mode from the Mode menu (see
page 7). You see this dialog box:
2. Click Preview to see a preview of your scan.
3. Click the Auto Detect button in the preview window to automatically select
your entire document, or click and drag in the preview window to create a
scanning selection area (marquee). For more information on using marquees, see
page 16.
4. Choose the Document Type:
■Reflective for a photo or printed document
■Transparency for film or slides (You must have the transparency unit
installed to see this option; see page 20.) If you choose this option, go to
step 6.
Select Professional
Mode
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Note: The Document Type you select determines which options appear in the
EPSON Scan dialog box.
5. If you chose Reflective as the Document Type, do the following:
■Choose the Document Source: Document Table, or ADF for documents
loaded in the optional automatic document feeder (see page 28).
■Choose the Auto Exposure Type: Photo to optimize exposure for photos, or
Document to optimize exposure for printed material.
6. If you chose Transparency as the Document Type, choose the Film Type:
Positive Film (for slides and some film), Color Negative Film, or B&W
Negative Film.
7. Either click Scan to complete your scan, or continue with the instructions in the
next section to fine-tune it.
Using Professional Mode To Customize Your Scan
1. Choose a color depth setting from the Image Type menu:
Note: If you choose 48-bit Color, make sure your application supports 48-bit
image files.
Click to see more options, then choose Best or Draft for the Scanning Quality
setting.
2. Choose a resolution setting (50 to 12800 dpi).
3. If you want to specify a Target Size for
your scanned image other than the
original size, select a size from the
pull-down menu. You can also click to
see more options, then type in the width
and height, or scale the image with a
percentage. If Trimming is set to On, your image is cropped to fit your specified
size. If it is Off, your image is sized to fit you specified size as closely as possible.
■48-bit Color ■16-bit Grayscale
■24-bit Color ■8-bit Grayscale
■Color Smoothing ■Halftone
■Black & White
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4. Use the Adjustment settings to modify your image as necessary. (You may have to
use the scroll bar to see these options.)
Auto Adjust – Click this button to let the software detect and analyze the
image with the document settings you’ve specified to determine the optimum
settings for your scan.
Histogram Adjustment – Click this button to adjust the highlight, shadow,
and gamma input levels.
Tone Correction – Click this button to choose a preset tone curve for specific
effects or to change the tone curve manually.
Image Adjustment – Click this button to adjust the color balance, saturation,
brightness, and contrast settings.
For any of the setting windows above, you can click Reset to go back to the
default settings for your image. See the EPSON Scan on-screen help for more
information about the Adjustment options.
5. If you want to sharpen the image, select
the Unsharp Mask Filter option. Click
to see more options, then choose a Level to
reduce or increase the effect.
6. Select the Descreening Filter option to reduce the moiré patterns in the image.
To specify the source image you are scanning, click to see more options, then
choose the closest option to your source document in the Screen Ruling menu.
(You may have to use the scroll bar to see this menu.)
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