Microtek ScanMaker 5, User Manual

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3-8 ScanWizard Pro for Windows User’s Guide
English
How to Scan a Line Art Image
1. Place the image to be scanned on your scanner’s
glass bed.
2. Go to the Preview window and click the Scan
Material icon. From the submenu that appears,
choose Reflective.
3. Go to the Settings window, and from the Type box,
choose Line Art.
4. Click the Overview button to start an overview.
5. Select the Scan Frame tool from the Toolbar in
the Preview window, and choose the area to be
scanned by dragging a rectangle around it. You
will see a flashing frame (marquee) around the
selected area.
6. On the Resolution box, enter a Resolution value
that matches the resolution of your printer (300 or
600 dpi, for example) to obtain optimal results.
7. If you like what you see in the Preview window,
click the Scan button to start scanning.
If you want to....
Before the Final Scan
• Specify output dimensions (after
step 2)
Go to the Settings window, and
enter the desired output dimensions
(width and height) in the output
dimension edit boxes. The scan frame
may change slightly, and you may
want to go back to the Preview
window to readjust the scan frame
that selects the area you want.
• See a more detailed preview
image (after step 5)
Go to the Preview window, highlight
the scan job you wish to see in detail,
and click the Prescan button.
• Fine-tune the preview image with
image processing options (after
step 5)
For Line Art images, only the
Threshold option is available.
Threshold measures how gray levels
are converted to black and white,
with the value of 128 (middle gray
level) as the determining point of
conversion. Gray levels below the
threshold are converted to black,
while gray levels above the threshold
are converted to white.