Scanning / How to

Make Suitable Settings

For films
For documents and photos

For films

Follow the steps below to make settings suitable for scanning films in the Professional Mode.

Place your films on the document table. If necessary, see the following section for more information.

Placing Films

Start EPSON Scan and then select the Professional Mode. For details on how to select the scanning mode, see Changing a scanning mode.

The setting window appears. Specify the settings to match your document referring to the illustration and the table below.

Specify the Original settings to match your films.

Document Type	Film
Film Type	Select a film type from the Film Type list.

Specify the Destination settings to match the resulting image file you desire.

Image Type	Select a suitable image type from the Image Type list.
Resolution	Select a suitable resolution from the Resolution list.

Note:

When you specify a high resolution, the number of pixels of the data increases and the scanned image becomes fine in texture. However, increasing the resolution causes the data size to increase. Specify a suitable resolution according to the scanning purpose.

The following table indicates the suitable resolution to use according to the scanning purpose.

Purpose	Resolution
Sending E-mail	96 to 150 dpi
Printing	300 dpi
Filing	300 dpi

Click Preview to preview the images.

Use Target Size to specify the output size of the scanned image. Also, specify the Adjustments settings, if necessary. See Create Beautiful Reproductions for details. (You may need to scroll to the bottom of the screen.)

Click Scan to start scanning. The scanned image is saved to the specified folder.

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For documents and photos

Follow the steps below to make settings suitable for scanning documents and photos (reflective documents) in the Professional Mode.

Place your materials on the document table. If necessary, see the following section for more information.

Placing Documents and Photos

Start EPSON Scan and then select the Professional Mode. For details on how to select a scanning mode, see Changing a scanning mode.

The setting window appears. Specify the settings to match your document referring to the illustration and the table below.

Original	Document Type	Reflective
	Document Source	Document Table
	Auto Exposure Type	Select "Document" or "Photo" from the Auto Exposure Type list.
Destination	Image Type	Select a suitable image type.
	Resolution	Select an appropriate resolution. See Select the suitable resolution.
	Target Size	To be set in a later step.
Adjustment	To be set in a later step.

Click Preview to preview the images.

Use Target Size to specify the output size of the scanned image. Also, specify the Adjustments settings, if necessary. See Create Beautiful Reproductions for details.

Click Scan to start scanning.

The scanned image is saved to the specified folder.

Select the suitable resolution

When you specify a high resolution, the number of pixels of the data increases and the scanned image becomes fine in texture. However, increasing the resolution causes the data size to increase. Specify a suitable resolution according to the scanning purpose.

The following table indicates the suitable resolution to use according to the scanning purpose.

Purpose	Resolution
Sending E-mail	96 to 150 dpi
OCR (Optical Character Recognition)	300 dpi
Printing	300 dpi
Filing	300 dpi
Sending Fax	200 dpi

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