Epson ES-300C User Setup Information - What You Should Know Before Scanning
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- Epson ES-300C | User Setup Information - What You Should Know Before Scanning - Page 1
What You should Know About Scanning - Epson ES-300C | User Setup Information - What You Should Know Before Scanning - Page 2
a scanner, you by using OCR (optical character recognition) software, the scanner can create an editable text file from scanner? This booklet shows you how easy it is. Inside, you'll find the basics of how a scanner SPECIAL OFFER! When you purchase your Epson® scanner, send a copy of your bill of - Epson ES-300C | User Setup Information - What You Should Know Before Scanning - Page 3
flatbed color scanner is ideal for virtually all uses, from simple line drawings to complex full-color illustrations and photographs. HAND HELD SCANNER You hold this type of scanner images using your software. While this is the least expensive of scanner technologies, you'll need a steady - Epson ES-300C | User Setup Information - What You Should Know Before Scanning - Page 4
use is the flatbed scanner. Scanning an image on a flatbed scanner is a lot like using a photocopier. Here's how it works: ) 1 You place your document (a photo, book, or any image that you want to scan) face-down on the glass and close the cover. ' 2 Using the scanner software, you select a few - Epson ES-300C | User Setup Information - What You Should Know Before Scanning - Page 5
great results with your scanner is understanding a little bit about the software that creates these files. The rest of this booklet presents software topics that will help you of OCR. To prove it, Epson includes a leading manufacturer's OCR Try-Pak with each of its scanners, so that you can try out - Epson ES-300C | User Setup Information - What You Should Know Before Scanning - Page 6
divides the various colors in the image into three primary colors: red, green, and blue. Epson's powerful 24-bit color scanners devote 8 bits/pixel to each of the three colors, so the scanner can represent over 16 million colors. Use color scanning for color photographs or other originals which - Epson ES-300C | User Setup Information - What You Should Know Before Scanning - Page 7
an image. As the resolution value increases, the scanner reads and reproduces the image in finer detail. -400 150-200 150-200 printer Printing press/ 400-800 150-200 150-200 imagesetter J.......*:ye s q y for sending to a service bureau or printing company. Selecting the lowest possible - Epson ES-300C | User Setup Information - What You Should Know Before Scanning - Page 8
per inch (133) by 1.5: 133 x 1.5 = 199.5 In this example, the resulting number (200) is the optimum resolution for the scan. (If you regularly use a service bureau to print your scanned materials, you can also ask the printer for the lpi of his particular printing press and to suggest resolutions.) - Epson ES-300C | User Setup Information - What You Should Know Before Scanning - Page 9
You scan and edit your images and then send the files to a service bureau or printing company, which uses a high resolution imagesetter such as full-color images, you scan in color and then use your image editing software to produce the color separation files that are necessary for printing color on - Epson ES-300C | User Setup Information - What You Should Know Before Scanning - Page 10
drawings, as shown in the samples on the left. Epson scanners use interpolation to double the scanner's native resolution, so our 300 dpi scanners achieve apparent resolutions of up to 600 dpi, and our 400 dpi scanners attain resolutions of up to 800 dpi. By using the enlargement feature, which goes - Epson ES-300C | User Setup Information - What You Should Know Before Scanning - Page 11
CORRECTION When you scan a color image, you usually want the tones and colors to be as close to the original as possible. Two software functions are particularly helpful for matching your original: gamma correction and color correction. Gamma correction lets you adjust the light intensity (or tone - Epson ES-300C | User Setup Information - What You Should Know Before Scanning - Page 12
background EDITING IMAGES TO MAKE YOUR MARK Image editing software lets you manipulate a scanned image to fit your or stretch an image to fit your space. CONFIGURING YOUR SYSTEM FOR GREAT RESULTS Adding a scanner to your system requires a bit of muscle in your other components. When you plan your - Epson ES-300C | User Setup Information - What You Should Know Before Scanning - Page 13
laser printer, can your printer support the scanned image? The more complex the image, the more RAM the printer needs to store instructions from the computer and compose and Mac environments, consider the Epson ES-800C, a scanner that supports both the Mac SCSI and Bidirectional DOS interfaces, so you can - Epson ES-300C | User Setup Information - What You Should Know Before Scanning - Page 14
ADDING OPTIONS TO YOUR SCANNER For the Epson dealer nearest you, call the Epson Connection at 1-800-922-8911. - Epson ES-300C | User Setup Information - What You Should Know Before Scanning - Page 15
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