Epson Macintosh User manual

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Contents
Introduction
System Requirements
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2
How to Use This Manual
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3
Warnings, Cautions, Tips, and Notes
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3
Where to Get Help
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Electronic support Services
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4
4
Chapter 1 Installing Your Software
Installing the Scanning Utilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-1
Testing the Scanning Utilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3
Chapter 2 Calibrating Your System
Calibrating Your Monitor to Your Scanner
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2-2
Performing Screen Calibration
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2-2
Enabling Screen Calibration
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2-3
Calibrating Your Printer to Your Scanner
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2-3
Exporting a Calibration Chart
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2-4
Creating Printer Calibration Profiles
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Scanning Using Calibration
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2-8
Chapter 3 Capturing Images From Within Applications
Accessing EPSON TWAIN
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3-2
Using the Easy Screen
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3-3
Selecting the Document Source
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3-3
Selecting the Image Type
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Selecting the Destination
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3-4
Using the Advanced Screen
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3-5
Modifying an Image Type
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3-6
Modifying the Destination
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3-10
Previewing and Adjusting the Image
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3-13
Scanning the Image
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3-16
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Chapter 4
Using Special Effects
Modifying the TWAIN Configuration
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4-1
Using Image Controls
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4-3
Adjusting Gamma Correction
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4-5
Adjusting Colors
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4-7
Setting the Gray Balance
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4-8
Changing Saturation
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4-8
Using Color Filters
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4-9
Inverting an Image
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4-9
Using Automatic Features
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4-10
Using Auto Exposure
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4-10
Using Auto Locate
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4-10
Chapter 5
Saving and Exporting Image 5
Saving a Scanned Image
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5-1
Exporting an Image
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5-2
Acquiring and Exporting an Image
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5-4
Exiting EPSONS can! II
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5-5
Chapter 6
Troubleshooting
Problems Using the EPSON Scanning Utilities
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6-1
Problems With Image QuaIity ....................
6-7
Appendix
Icon Glossary
Index
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Introduction
The EPSON
®
Scanning Utilities let you perform the following
functions with your EPSON scanner:
Calibrate your scanner to your monitor and your printer
Capture scanned images from within your application
Automatically locate, expose, and scan an image
Adjust individual settings and preview the effects before
you scan
Choose single- or triple-pass scanning
Save and reuse scanning settings that work well in your
environment
Take advantage of the multipage scanning feature available
with scanners that have an automatic document feeder
(ADF)
Take advantage of the text enhancement technology built
into some EPSON scanners.
The EPSON Scanning Utilities are composed of two integrated
main programs: EPSON Scan! II and EFSON TWAIN. EPSON
Scan! II calibrates your scanner with your monitor and color
printer to produce images in colors that closely match the
originals. 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.
Introduction 1

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
®
Macintosh
®
or Power Macintosh™ computer with a
68030 or 68040 processor
Apple system software 7.0 or higher
At least 100MB of free hard disk space for scanner
applications and images, depending on the size of the
images
8ME3 of system RAM; 4MB of application RAM
Note:
8MB is the minimum amount of RAM; graphics applications run
faster and more efficiently with at least 12MB of RAM.
A color monitor (one with a 24-bit video card is
recommended)
One of the following EPSON scanners: ES-300C, ES-600C,
ES-800C, ES-1000C, ES-1200C, or the ActionScanner™ II.
Note:
Some features may not be available or are restricted for some of
these scanners.
2 Introduction

How to Use This Manual
This User’s Guide contains information you need to install and
use the EPSON Scanning Utilities with your EPSON scanner.
Chapter 1 describes installing your EPSON Scanning Utilities
software. Be sure to read this first. Chapter 2 describes how to
calibrate your system. Basic information for scanning from
within your application is included in 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.
This manual also includes two glossariesan icon glossary that
describes how each icon works, and a term glossary that
describes common scanning terms. The final section is an index.
Warnings, Cautions, Tips, and Notes
This manual displays important information as follows:
Warnings
must be followed carefully to avoid damage to your scanner
and computer.
Cautions
should be followed carefully to ensure your scanner operates
correctly.
Tips
contain helpful ideas for using these utilities.
Notes
contain important information about these utilities.
Introduction 3

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
[phone]:
Technical information on the installation, configuration,
and operation of EPSON products
Assistance in locating your nearest Authorized EPSON
Reseller or Customer Care Center
Customer relations
EPSON technical information library fax service
Product literature on current and new products.
You can purchase printed manuals, accessories, or parts for
EPSON products from EPSON Accessories at [phone]
(U.S. sales only). In Canada, call (800) BUY-EPSON.
If you purchased your scanner outside the United States or
Canada, contact your EPSON dealer or the marketing location
nearest you for customer support and service.
If you need help with any software program you are using,
see the documentation for that program for technical support
information.
Electronic Support services
If you have a modem, the fastest way to access helpful tips,
specifications, drivers, application notes, DIP switch or jumper
settings, and bulletins for EPSON products is through the
online services below.
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EPSON Bulletin Board Service
You can call the EPSON Bulletin Board Service (BBS) at
[phone]. 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.
To download the latest TWAIN drivers from the BBS, use the
Drivers library.
CompuServe online support
CompuServe
®
members can call the Epson America Forum
on CompuServe. If you are already a member, simply type
GO EPSON at the menu prompt to reach the Forum.
If you are not currently a member, you are eligible for a free
introductory membership as an owner of an EPSON product.
This membership entitles you to:
An introductory credit on CompuServe
Your own user ID and password
A complimentary subscription to CompuServe Magazine,
CompuServe’s monthly publication.
To take advantage of this offer, call [phone] in the United
States and Canada and ask for representative #529. In other
countries, call the following U.S. telephone number:
[phone], or your local CompuServe access number.
Introduction 5

Chapter 1
Installing Your Software
EPSON Scanning Utilities come with installer software that
makes them easy to install on your Macintosh.
Before you install the software, make sure that the SCSI
interface cable is connected properly and the SCSI ID and
terminator are set correctly; see your scanner documentation
for instructions. Then follow the instructions below to install
your software.
Installing the Scanning Utilities
Follow these steps to install EPSON Scanning Utilities:
1.
2.
Turn on the scanner.
Hold down the Shift key while turning on your Macintosh
to turn off any extensions.
3.
4.
Insert the EPSON Scanning Utilities Disk 1 in a diskette drive.
If necessary, double-click the
Disk 1 icon on the desktop to
open the Disk
1 folder.
5.
Double-click the Installer icon in the Disk 1 folder.
6.
After a few moments, you see the initial setup screen. Click
OK to continue.
Installing Your Software
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You see the Easy Install screen:
7. To install all the program components, click Install. To select
only one or two components, click Customize; then
highlight the components on the next screen and click
Install.
8. The program begins copying files. Insert the diskettes as
prompted.
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. TWAIN contains EPSON TWAIN, the EPSON
TWAIN Settings, EPSON Calibration Profiles, and the Source
Manager.
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Testing the Scanning Utilities
After you have installed the Scanning Utilities, test your
scanner with the utilities to make sure everything works
correctly. Follow these steps:
1. Raise the scanner’s cover and place an image face down on
the glass surface. Then carefully close the cover.
2. Double-click the EPSON Scan! II icon.
3. From the File menu, select Acquire. You see the EPSON
TWAIN easy screen:
4. Click Scan. After a few moments, you see the image in the
EPSON Scan! II Untitled-l window.
If you do not see it, repeat the steps you performed to set up
your scanner and install the scanning Utilities again.
5. 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 instructions.
Installing Your Software
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Chapter 2
Calibrating Your System
Sometimes the colors of your original image do not match the
colors you see on your screen and in the final printed output.
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
hand, produce colors by combining cyan (C), magenta (M),
yellow (Y), and black (K) inks (CMYK) to create the desired
hues. This is a subtractive color process.
When you print a scanned image, the image goes through both
the additive and subtractive interpretive processes to acquire
colorthe first when it is scanned, and the second when it is
printed on your color printer. As a result, the printed colors
may not match the colors in the original.
Calibration allows you to fine-tune your scanner, monitor, and
printer to produce colors that are very close to those in the
originals. Use the procedures in this chapter to:
Calibrate your monitor to your scanner
Calibrate your printer to your scanner
Use the resulting calibration profiles when you scan an
image.
Calibrating Your System
2-1

Calibrating Your Monitor to Your Scanner
To calibrate your monitor to your scanner, you first need to
perform a screen calibration using EPSON Scan! II and then
enable screen calibration in 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.
Tip:
If the rows don’t look the same after you adjust the slide
bar, increase the number of colors your monitor displays,
if possible, using the Monitor Control Panel; see your
Macintosh documentation.
4. Choose OK.
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Note:
If you use a different monitor or change your video resolution,
calibrate your screen again.
Enabling Screen Calibration
Once you calibrate your screen, you need to make sure screen
calibration is enabled (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. Click Advanced to switch to the
advanced screen. If the screen is large and has a
Configuration button, it is the advanced screen.
3. Click Configuration to open the Configuration dialog box.
4. Make sure the EPSON Calibration radio button is turned on.
If it isn’t, select it to enable screen calibration.
5. Choose OK.
6. Close the EPSON TWAIN screen.
When screen calibration is enabled, TWAIN uses it as it scans
images until you change this setting.
Calibrating Your printer to Your Scanner
If you are printing color images on a color printer, you must
choose a calibration profile for each of the printers you use.
Printer calibration profiles ensure that the colors in your
printed images closely match those in the original.
Calibrating Your System 2-3

If you have one of these EPSON Stylus
®
ink jet printers, Scan! II
provides printer calibration profiles for you so you do not have
to create them:
EPSON Stylus COLOR
EPSON Stylus COLOR II
EPSON Stylus COLOR IIs
EPSON Stylus Pro
EPSON Stylus Pro XL
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.
To create a printer calibration profile, you must perform these
operations:
Export a calibration chart from EPSON Scan! II to your
application in a format your application can open and print
Scan the printed chart to create the printer calibration
profile.
Exporting a Calibration Chart
Follow these steps:
1. Start EPSON Scan! II, if necessary.
2. Choose Export Calibration Chart from the Calibrate menu.
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You see the following screen:
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
From the Export File Format pull-down menu, select a
format your application software can open, such as PICT.
In the Export image as field, type the name you want to use
for the calibration chart file, such as COLOR1.
Click Export to create the calibration chart in the EPSON
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.
Save the calibration chart file. You can use the same name
you assigned when you exported the chart, or you can
assign a new name.
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2-5

10. Print the calibration chart on your color printer.
11. Exit your image editing application.
Note:
To print images on more than one color printer, print the calibration
chart on each printer you’ll use. If you plan to print the image on a
service bureau’s color printer, have them print the calibration chart
on their printer so you can create a calibration profile for it.
Tip:
when you label the printed charts to help you identify which
printer produced them, don’t write on the chart itself. Write on
the back of the page.
Tip:
If you plan to print your image on a printing press that
requires a four-color separation, you’ll need to ask your service
bureau or printer to create a color sample using your
calibration chart. You can then use that color sample to create
a calibration profile.
You are now ready to scan the printed calibration chart to
create a printer calibration profile.
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.
3. Choose Create Calibration Profile from the Calibrate menu.
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You see the following screen:
4. In the Filename field, type the filename of the calibration
file you want to create, such as COLOR1 PRINTER.
Tip:
If you are creating more than one calibration profile (for
instance, if you have more than one color printer), make
sure you assign a unique filename to each calibration
profile so you can distinguish between them.
5. Click Continue. You see the EPSON TWAIN advanced
screen. (If you see the easy screen, click Advanced.)
Calibrating Your System
2-7

6. If necessary, choose Color Photo from the Image Type
pull-down menu.
7. Choose Calibration Profile from the Destination pull-down
menu.
8. Click Scan. The program scans the calibration chart and
creates a calibration profile. You see the EPSON Scan! II
program screen.
Note:
If a message appears indicating that the specified scan settings are
incorrect, you need to reset the Destination options to their
default settings. Click the Destination button to open the
Destination dialog box; then select General for the
Calibration setting, and 180 for both the Resolution settings.
Save the settings by clicking Save; then choose Scan again.
Always create calibration profiles using these default settings.
You can now use the calibration profile when you scan images,
as described in the next section.
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.
Follow these steps to use a calibration profile when you scan:
1. Choose Acquire (or Place, or the appropriate command)
from the File menu of your application or EPSON Scan! II.
2. If you see a submenu, choose TWAIN (and then EPSON
TWAIN, if necessary). You see EPSON TWAIN advanced
screen. (If you see the easy screen, click Advanced.)
2-8 Calibrating Your System