Samsung SF-5100P User manual

Laser Printer,
Scanner, PC-Fax
User’s Guide
SF-5100P

Trademarks
• SmarThru, ScanThru, ImageThru, CopyThru, FaxThru, MailThru, DocuThru are trademarks of
Samsung Electronics.
• AnyPage Lite is a trademark of Samsung Electronics.
• Windows, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT, Windows 3.x are trademarks of Microsoft
corporation.
• IBM is a trademark of International Business Machines.
• Centronics is a trademark of Centronics Data Computer.
• Other names and trademarks mentioned in this manual are trademarks of their respective
holders.
About user’s guides
Your machine is packaged with two user guides:
• This user’s guide, which provides you with information on installing the supplied CD-ROM to
use your machine as a printer and scanner. This guide also provides the basic description on
using the supplied multi-function application programme, Samsung SmarThru, which allows
you to scan and edit images, send E-mail and PC-fax. You will also find a brief description on
automatic text recognition programme, AnyPage Lite.
• Laser facsimile user’s guide, which provides you with all of the detailed information you will
need to install, send and receive a fax, maintain and troubleshoot your machine.

Contents
Installing SmarThru software ________________________ 1.1
About SmarThru software___________________________ 1.1
System requirements _______________________________ 1.2
Hardware requirement _____________________________ 1.3
Installation procedure ______________________________ 1.4
Uninstalling SmarThru software _____________________ 1.12
Printing ____________________________________________ 2.1
Printing a document _______________________________ 2.1
Loading paper ____________________________________ 2.2
Paper guidelines ___________________________________ 2.6
Printer settings ____________________________________ 2.7
Canceling a print job _______________________________ 2.11
Introducing Samsung SmarThru _____________________ 3.1
Scanning with Samsung ScanThru ____________________ 3.2
Samsung ScanThru window ________________________ 3.5
Scanning with the Samsung TWAIN for Scan window __ 3.6
Samsung TWAIN for Scan window___________________ 3.7
Scanning for automatic text recognition ______________ 3.8
Working with ImageThru ____________________________ 3.11
Overview _________________________________________ 3.11
Opening the Samsung ImageThru window ___________ 3.12
Samsung ImageThru toolbar overview _______________ 3.14
Editing images ____________________________________ 3.15
Working with images in browse mode ________________ 3.19
Copying a scanned image ____________________________ 3.21
Overview _________________________________________ 3.21
Copying a scanned image with CopyThru ____________ 3.21
Samsung CopyThru window ________________________ 3.23
Chapter 1 Installation
Chapter 2 Printing
Chapter 3 Using SmarThru
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Installation Printing Using AnyPage Lite
Using SmarThru Troubleshooting
Working with E-mail messages _______________________ 3.24
Overview _________________________________________ 3.24
Creating and sending E-mail messages _______________ 3.25
Scanning a document and sending it by E-mail ________ 3.27
Other ways to access Samsung MailThru _____________ 3.29
Reading E-mail messages ___________________________ 3.29
Finding a message _________________________________ 3.32
Using address book _________________________________ 3.33
Overview _________________________________________ 3.33
Opening the address book __________________________ 3.34
Using the address book _____________________________ 3.36
Working with fax messages __________________________ 3.37
Overview _________________________________________ 3.37
Sending a fax with Samsung FaxThru ________________ 3.38
Scanning a document and sending it by fax ___________ 3.41
Other ways to access Samsung FaxThru ______________ 3.42
Fax browsing _____________________________________ 3.43
Fax cover editor ___________________________________ 3.44
Using AnyPage Lite _________________________________ 4.1
Overview _________________________________________ 4.1
How to recognize a text or table______________________ 4.3
AnyPage Lite window overview _____________________ 4.10
Overview __________________________________________ 5.1
Printer problems_____________________________________ 5.1
Print quality problems________________________________ 5.3
Scanning problems___________________________________ 5.5
PC-fax problems ____________________________________ 5.8
OCR problems ______________________________________ 5.9
Index ______________________________________________ A.1
Appendix
Chapter 4 Using AnyPage Lite
Chapter 5 Troubleshooting

Installation
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1.1
Installing SmarThru software
About SmarThru software
You must install the SmarThru CD-ROM to print, scan, or to send and
receive faxes through PC. The SmarThru CD-ROM includes the following:
• MFP driver
• SmarThru software
• OCR software (AnyPage Lite)
For details on the drivers, refer to each item’s description.
MFP driver
To use the machine as your printer, or scanner, or to send and receive faxes
through PC, you must install the MFP driver.
SmarThru software
The SmarThru software contains:
ScanThru
It lets you scan documents and images quickly and easily. With the
ScanThru, you can set image type and resolution for the scanner, adjust
brightness and contrast, perform a colour correction, and so on.
CopyThru
It lets you make a copy of the scanned documents or images. With the
CopyThru, you can change the resolution and image type used for copying,
and so on.
Installing
SmarThru software
Installation

1.2 Installing SmarThru software
FaxThru
It helps you to create fax covers and send faxes through PC.
DocuThru
General form to work with messages. With DocuThru, you can perform all
the operations of the SmarThru system.
ImageThru
It is an image database manager and image editor programme. With the
ImageThru, you can search the database for images, adjust parameters of
an image, such as brightness, contrast and saturation, and apply different
effects, such as sharpening, emboss, posterize, mosaic etc. You can also send
the images by fax or E-mail.
MailThru
With Samsung MailThru you can send, receive and easily organise your
work with E-mail messages. The system provides you with convenient
tools which let you sort and find messages using a number of criteria.
OCR software (AnyPage Lite)
OCR (Optical Character Recognition) is software that has the ability to
recognize most character formats, so that a scanned document can be read
and edited on your word processor.
System requirements
Before you start, make sure you have the following minimum computer
setup:
• Windows 3.x, or Windows 95/98: 486SX 33MHz or higher processor with
8 MB or higher RAM
• Windows NT 4.0 (Service Pack 3): Pentium 90 or higher CPU with 32 MB
or higher RAM
• Free disk space of at least 50MB for full installation
• CD-ROM drive

1.3
Installing SmarThru software
Hardware requirement
1. Turn off both your machine and PC.
2. Connect your machine and PC with the printer cable (IEEE-1284 compatible).
3. Connect one end of the telephone line cord supplied to the LINE jack on
the rear of the machine, then connect the other end of the cord to the
standard phone wall jack.
4. If your computer modem uses the same phone line, connect one end of the
supplied saperated telephone line cord to the EXT. jack on the rear of your
machine, then connect the other end to the line jack of the internal/external
PC modem.
5. Turn on all the machines.
Notes:
• You must use the internal computer modem or an external modem for sending or
receiving E-mail. You can connect to the Internet using an Internet Service
Provider (ISP) or through one of several online services, such as the Microsoft
Network or America Online.
• If Windows 95/98 users see the “New Hardware Found” screen when your
computer turns on, close it by clicking Cancel.
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Installation

2. If prompted, select a language.
3. Click Install the Samsung software on your PC.
1.4 Installing SmarThru software
Installation procedure
Installing the SmarThru software
1. Insert the supplied CD-ROM into your CD-ROM drive.
The SmarThru CD-ROM is automatically running and the Samsung
SmarThru setup dialogue box will appear.
If the Samsung SmarThru setup dialogue box does not appear:
1) Windows 95/98/NT users should select Run from the Start menu.
Windows 3.x users should select Run from the File menu.
2) Type D(or E):\Setupint (where ‘D‘ or ‘E‘ represents the letter
designation of your computer’s CD-ROM drive), and click OK to start
the installation.

1.5
Installing SmarThru software
If you select the Custom installation, you may choose the options you
want to install.
5. When the installation is completed, you must shut down and restart your
computer.
If your computer does not shut down and restart automatically, you must
shut it down manually and restart it before the changes you have made will
be in effect.
4. Follow the on-screen instructions and click Next.
The SmarThru installation supports two types of setup. Typical setup
will be installed with the most common options. Recommended for most
users. In Custom setup, you can select components to be installed.
MFP driver to print, scan, or
to send and receive faxes
through PC.
SmarThru software to work
with scanned images, and
electronic documents.
AnyPage Lite software to
enable OCR.
Installation