Microtek ArtixScanDI 5230 User manual

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ArtixScanDI 5230
ArtixScanDI 5240
ArtixScanDI 5250
ArtixScanDI 5260
ArtixScanTS 540T
User's Manual

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Preface
Copyright
Copyright © 2013, Microtek International, Inc., all rights reserved. This document
may not be reproduced or copied in any way, stored electronically, or translated
into any language, without the permission of Microtek International, Inc.
Trademarks
Microtek, ScanMaker, ArtixScan, ScanWizard and ColoRescue are trademarks or
registered trademarks of Microtek International, Inc. All other trademarks or
registered trademarks are the property of their respective holders. Specifications,
software and hardware bundles are subject to change without notice. Not
responsible for typographical errors.
Disclaimer
The contents of this manual have been checked carefully for accuracy, and every
effort has been made to ensure that there are no errors. However, Microtek makes
no guarantee as to the accuracy of the contents of this document and reserves the
right to make changes to the contents without prior warning.
I49-004887 B
September 2013
Microtek International, Inc.
6, Industry East Road 3, Science Based Industrial Park, Hsinchu, 30077, Taiwan
Tel: [phone], Fax: [phone], http://www.microtek.com

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FCC Compliance Statement
This equipment (Model: MRS-600A4LADF ) has been tested and found to comply
with the limits for a Class B digital device, pursuant to Part 15 of the FCC rules.
These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful
interference in a residential installation. This equipment generates, uses and can
radiate radio frequency energy and, if not installed and used in accordance with
the instructions, may cause harmful interference to radio communications.
However, there is no guarantee that interference will not occur in a particular
installation. If this equipment does cause harmful interference to radio or
television reception, which can be determined by turning the equipment off and
on, the user is encouraged to try to correct the interference by one or more of the
following measures:
• Reorient or relocate the receiving antenna.
• Increase the separation between the equipment and receiver.
• Connect the equipment into an outlet on a circuit different from that to which
the receiver is connected.
• Consult the dealer or an experienced radio/TV technician for help.
NOTE: A shielded Hi-Speed USB interface cable with ferrite core installed on the
scanner connector end must be used with this equipment.
Caution: Changes or modifications not expressly approved by the manufacturer
responsible for compliance could void the user's authority to operate the
equipment.
This device complies with Part 15 of the FCC Rules. Operation is subject to the
following two conditions: (1) This device may not cause harmful interference, and
(2) this device must accept any interference received, including interference that
may cause undesired operation.

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Safety Precautions
Before using your scanner, read the following safety guides carefully, which detail
the proper operation of the scanner and its accessories to prevent injuries or
damage to users or equipment.
Power Source and AC Power Cord:
• Use a power source only with a power rating specified on the marking label.
• Insert the plug completely into the outlet, as a loose connection may cause
arcing and result in fire.
• Place and route the power supply cord such that it is not likely to be walked
on or pinched by items placed upon or against them, paying particular
attention to the cord near the power plugs, convenience receptacles, and at
the point where it exits from the outlet.
• When the scanner is left unattended and unused for long periods of time,
unplug it from the wall outlet.
Moving and Storing the Scanner:
• Do not place the scanner on any slippery, slanted, or unstable surface. The
product may slide or fall, causing serious injury to people as well as serious
damage to the product.
• Do not use this scanner near water. Never spill liquid of any kinds on the
product, or it may result in electric shock or other hazards.
• This scanner should be situated away from heat sources such as radiators,
heat registers, stoves, or other products (including amplifiers) that produce
heat.
Service:
• When you need a repair service, unplug the scanner from the power outlet
and consult qualified service personnel.
• When replacement parts are required, use replacement parts that are specified
by the manufacturer or have the same characteristics as the original parts.

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Table of Contents
Preface ............................................................................................... 2
FCC Compliance Statement ................................................................ 3
Safety Precautions ............................................................................. 4
Knowing aboutYour Scanner .............................................................. 7
Features of Your Scanner .................................................................. 7
Installation Requirements .................................................................. 9
Taking a Closer Look ...................................................................... 10
Front/Top View ....................................................................... 10
Open View .............................................................................. 11
Back View .............................................................................. 12
Initial Setup ...................................................................................... 13
Step 1: Unpacking Package Contents ............................................... 13
Step 2: Installing the Software ........................................................ 14
Step 3: Unlocking the Scanner ........................................................ 15
Step 4: Installing the Document Feed Tray ........................................ 16
Closing the Document Feed Tray ............................................... 17
Step 5: Connecting the Scanner ...................................................... 18
To the Power Adapter .............................................................. 18
To the Hi-Speed USB Cable ...................................................... 19
Positioning Documents ................................................................... 20
Into the ADF (Automatic Document Feeder) ...................................... 20
Using the Paper Stoppers .......................................................... 22
Document Notices .................................................................... 23
On the Flatbed ............................................................................... 24
Scanning Documents ....................................................................... 25
Using ScanWizard DI ..................................................................... 25
Scanning a Single-sheet Document ............................................ 25
Scanning a Stack of Documents ................................................ 28
Scanning Documents with Barcodes ........................................... 30
Scanning Documents Directly to a PDF ....................................... 32

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Utilizing Scanned Documents .......................................................... 33
Scanning for Archiving ................................................................... 33
Scanning for OCR .......................................................................... 36
Scanning for PDF ........................................................................... 37
Scanning for E-mail ........................................................................ 38
Scanning for Copying ..................................................................... 39
Scanner Buttons ............................................................................... 40
Customizing the Function Button ..................................................... 40
How the Scanner Buttons Works ..................................................... 42
Care and Cleaning ............................................................................ 43
Cleaning the Scanner Glass Surfaces ................................................ 43
Cleaning the Rollers ....................................................................... 45
Cleaning the Sensors ...................................................................... 46
Maintenance ..................................................................................... 47
Replacing the Separation Pad .......................................................... 47
Replacing the Feed Roller Assembly ................................................. 49
Appendix .......................................................................................... 52
Fixing Paper Jams ......................................................................... 52
Troubleshooting ............................................................................ 53
Specifications of ArtixScan DI 5230 ................................................ 55
Specifications of ArtixScan DI 5240 ................................................ 56
Specifications of ArtixScan DI 5250 ................................................ 57
Specifications of ArtixScan DI 5260 ................................................ 58
Specifications of ArtixScan TS 540T ............................................... 59

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Knowing about Your Scanner
The scanner (ArtixScan DI 5230/5240/5250/5260 and ArtixScan TS 540T) is a
flatbed document scanner with built-in Automatic Document Feeder (ADF) that can
hold up to 75 sheets of papers for the unattended volume scanning. It features
optical resolution of 1200-dpi (flatbed)/600-dpi (ADF), duplex (double-sided)
scanning, and a Hi-Speed USB interface for the fast and plug-and-play
connectivity ability. As well, its ADF can handle extra-long page documents.
Features of Your Scanner
The scanner comes with several important features, including the following:
• Two-way design capable of fast duplex and fragile flat scanning— The
scanner has a two-way design that’s capable of fast one-pass duplex batch
and easy flatbed scanning, both in a single unit.
• Ultrasonic Double-feed Detection — Equipped with an ultrasonic detector, the
scanner is able to detect the thickness between overlapping pages and to
prevent multiple pages from being fed together, efficiently preventing the
happens of mis-feed or double-feed when delivering papers through the
feeder.
• Energy-saving LED light source — Adopting LEDs as the light source, when
the scanner is detected by the system, there are no requirements for any
warm-up time before carrying out the scan, which boots your productivity and
reduces energy costs amazingly. With its stable performance, the image
quality will remain consistent even after used for a certain period of time.
• Chic and Easy-to-access programmable function button — The scanner is
equipped with one Select, One Scan/Stop and one Favorite buttons located
on the top of the scanner, used to automate a number of customized and
predefined operations, allowing you an intuitive and easy way to access
scanner functions.
• Duplex scanning support — Allows to scan both sides of a document in a
single pass. With this feature, the scanner can handle up to 120 ipm
(ArtixScan DI 5260), 100 ipm (ArtixScan DI 5250), 80 ipm (ArtixScan DI
5240), or 60 ipm (ArtixScan DI 5230) in color, grayscale and black & white
at 200 dpi. Please note that the ArtixScan TS 540T only supports simplex
document scanning.
• Automatic Document Feeder (ADF) — The high-capacity ADF can hold up to
75 sheets of papers at a time, supporting paper sizes range from 3.149” x
3.149” (80 mm x 80 mm) to 8.5” x 65” (216 mm x 1651 mm). Please note
that ArtixScan TS 540T only supports the length up to 8.5” x 25” (216 mm
x 635 mm).

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• New and Advanced Microtek ScanWizard DI software — All-in-one control
panel offers a host of features and image adjustment controls. It comes out
several distinguished advantages:
– Quick Scan — This feature enables the scanner to scan and save the
images directly as a single PDF file, no more comprehensive settings
required.
– Auto Document Rotation — With this feature, the scanner automatically
rotates every saved files in a readable direction based on a specific OCR
language selected.
– Smart Threshold — This feature enables the software to specify the best
level for a threshold used in high-contrast and black-and-white images
automatically, improving the clearance and readability of black-and-white
documents.
– Combine Images — This feature enables the software to merge two
separate images as one united image. With this function, you do not
need other after-scan editing program to modify your scanned documents.
– Smart Document Enhancement — With this feature, the scanner
automatically brings out and improves readability of text and removes
unwanted background color (i.e., green, red, or blue) in/from a document
that includes multi image elements.
– Barcode Separator — With this feature, you can batch scan documents
without starting and stopping each time a new file begins by using
barcode numbers on the documents. It saves you huge amounts of time
and money to organize, to index and to search files of documents in
seconds, enhancing the efficiency and productivity of file management.
– Remove Blank Page — With this feature, blank pages are automatically
detected and removed by the software when scanning a stack of
documents. This function is quite helpful especially when users are
scanning double-sided documents and some of the pages only have text
on the front side.
– Save multiple images as a single file : This advanced feature allows user
to save multiple scanned images as a single file, depending on the
number of the scanned images that are defined for document archival.
– Auto-crop and auto-deskew : The auto-crop function automatically
detects the size of the original image, crops the full scan frame to fit the
image, and removes unwanted black borders. The auto-deskew function
automatically corrects distorted images for proper alignment.
– Color dropout : Red, green and blue colors can be dropped out to allow
for clearer and more accurate forms processing with problematic color
documents number of the scanned images that are defined for document
archival.

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Installation Requirements
In order to use your scanner, your computer must satisfy the following system
requirements:
• CD-ROM/DVD-ROM drive (for installing software)
• Color display with 24-bit color output capability
• 1 GB RAM or more (2 GB is recommended)
• Intel Core2 Duo Processor at 2.1 GHz PC or higher with a SATA2/SATA3 at
7200 rpm HDD or SSD (recommended); Intel-Based Mac computer with built-
in USB port
• Windows XP/XPE/Vista (32-bit/64-bit)/Windows 7 (32-bit/64-bit)/
Windows 8; Mac OS X 10.6 or later

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No. Names of Parts Functions of Parts
1 Document Feed Tray Holds the high-volume documents to be fed.
2 Release Button Opens the ADF cover.
3 ADF Cover Used to cover the inner parts of the ADF.
4 ADF (Scanner lid) Used to scan a stack of document and cover the glass
surfaces of the flatbed.
5 Button Panel
• Power Button Turns the scanner on or off.
• Select Button Toggles through the numbers of predefined function buttons.
• Scan/Stop Button Starts scan immediately or cancel a ongoing scan job.
• Favorite Button Activates the function associated with the Favorite button
that was defined in the “Save Settings to Function Button”
dialog box.
• LED Display Displays the selected function button number.
6 Paper Stopper (A) Stops a stack of the output documents. It is designed to
work with the documents smaller than A4.
7 Paper Stoppers (B) Stops a stack of the output documents. It is designed to
work with the documents in A4 or Letter size.
8 Document Output Tray Stores the stacked documents which have been scanned.
9 Guide Arms Slides to hold a stack of documents.
Taking a Closer Look
Front/Top View

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Open View
No. Names of Parts Functions of Parts
1 ADF Glass Surface Calibration and scan area for ADF scanning, which
should be kept clear and free of obstruction at all times.
2 Glass Surface (A) Calibration and scan area for ADF scanning, which
should be kept clear and free of obstruction at all times.
3 Glass Surface (B) Flatbed scan area for placing the single-sheet document.
4 Rulers Used to measure the width and length of a scanned
document.
5 ADF (Scanner lid) Used to scan a stack of document and cover the glass
surfaces of the flatbed.

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Back View
No. Names of Parts Functions of Parts
1 Hi-Speed USB Port Connects the Hi-Seed USB (USB 2.0) cable to the
computer.
2 Power Connector Connects the scanner to the power adapter.

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Initial Setup
After unpacking your scanner package, follow the steps in order for a quick and
easy installation process.
Step 1: Unpacking Package Contents
After unpacking your scanner package, please check for the major components
listed below.
Scanner
Hi-Speed USB Cable
Power Adapter
Software CDs/DVDs
Power Cord
Document Input Tray

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Step 2: Installing the Software
Important: Always close any open programs and turn off Anti-virus utilities
before installing software.
PC:
1. Turn on your computer.
2. Place the Microtek Software CD/DVD into
a drive.
3. Follow the on-screen instructions to
install the driver and software.
NOTE: If the Microtek Software Installer
screen does not come up
automatically, double-click the following
in succession: “My Computer”; the CD-
ROM (or DVD-ROM) icon; then
cdsetup.exe to start the installer program.
4. Click EXIT on the Microtek Software Installer screen when all the software has
been installed.
5. Restart your computer.
MAC:
1. Turn on your computer.
2. Place the Microtek Software CD/DVD* into a drive, and double-click the
ScanPotter installer icon to install ScanPotter.
3. Install the remaining software components, then restart your computer at the
end of all software installation.
NOTE: After rebooting your Macintosh, the Microtek software will attempt to
locate your scanner on the system. Since this is your first install and you
have not yet connected the scanner, simply ignore the message that appears
and proceed to the next step.
Drivers & Software Upgrades
After you finish the installation of software, if you found that the installed drivers and software
cannot run your product or your computer system properly later, please go to the Microtek
Download Service site at ww7.microtek.com.tw/service.php to download and install any updates
you may require.
For additional information about Microtek products, please visit our website at www.microtek.com.
* Microtek Software CD/DVD (ScanPotter) for the scanner is under development;
therefore, it may not come with your scanner package. Microtek will provide it to
you as soon as possible when it is ready.

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Step 3: Unlocking the Scanner
1. Remove the yellow “Unlock Scanner” sticker from your scanner.
2. With the scanner power off, tilt the front right corner of the scanner to see the
locking switch at the bottom.
3. Push the locking switch to the position as indicated in the graph, with the
icon on the lock showing as “Unlocked”.
NOTE: To lock the scanner (for shipping and other reasons), tilt the scanner and
look for the locking switch on the right corner at the front, then push the locking
switch to the "Locked" position. DO NOT turn the scanner upside down when
attempting to lock the unit.
Unlocked
Locked

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Step 4: Installing the Document Feed Tray
After unpacking the scanner package, you can find the Document Feed Tray put
seperately from your scanner. Install it on the scanner before using the scanner.
1. Insert the Document Feed Tray by sliding the tabs into the slots at the back of
the scanner.
Document Feed Tray
2. Push the tray down until it locks in place, and ensure that the tray sits tightly
on the scanner.

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Closing the Document FeedTray
If you have to transport the scanner or use the flatbed scanner glass to scan a
document, it is strongly recommended that you should close the Document Input
Tray in order to avoid the damage of the component part of the scanner.
To close the Document Input Tray:
1. Along the tracks of the two sides of the Document Feed Tray, slide the feed
tray UP until it reaches the highest level which can be fully extended.
2. Tilt the Document Feed Tray forward in the direction as arrow shown to
close the tray.

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To the Hi-Speed USB Cable
3. Connect one end of the Hi-Speed USB cable to your computer.
4. Connect the other end of the Hi-Speed USB cable to the scanner’s USB port.
Step 5: Connecting the Scanner
To the Power Adapter
1. Connect the power adapter to the back of the scanner.
2. Plug one end of the power cord into the power adapter, and plug the other
end of the power cord into a wall outlet or other power source.

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5. Press and hold the Power button ( )
until the orange LED lights on.
Once the scanner is powered on, the
orange LED will be lighted up, and the
7-segment LED display (SSD) will also
be activated as well.
The system will detect the scanner
automatically. Power button

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Positioning Documents
Into the ADF (Automatic Document Feeder)
This section shows you how to load a stack of documents into the ADF
(Automatic Document Feeder).
Document Feed Tray
1. Fan the stack of papers to be
scanned before loading them into
the Document Feed Tray.
2. Align the top edges of the papers
neatly.
3. Load the stack of papers into the
Document Feed Tray, with the
side to be scanned facing down
and the top edge of the paper
facing toward the feeder.
Push the stack of papers into the
tray until the paper’s edge
touches the bottom edge of the
feeder.
WARNING: The document feeder
is not designed for scanning
photos; doing so may damage
your originals. Microtek accepts
no responsibility for damage that
may arise from misuse of
equipment.