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Before you begin, be sure the Scan Station power is on 
and ready and the output tray panel is lowered.

1.

Adjust the input and output trays as needed.

2. Documents are placed face down and top down in the 

input tray with the side you want to scan facing the 
input tray.

3. From the touch screen, select the destination(s) you 

want to send your scanned document(s) to. More than 
one email address, printer, network folder, etc. can be 
selected at a time. 

4. If you want to change the Scan settings (i.e., 

Scan As,

 

File Type

, etc.), select 

Settings

 and make the desired 

changes.

5. Press the 

Go 

 button.

6. If you want to review or change any of your settings, 

you can select 

Output

 on the Processing Review 

screen and the Settings Review screen will be 
displayed. Otherwise, select 

Scan

 on the Processing 

Review screen.

7. Depending on your Scan Station configuration some 

options may be displayed (e.g., Custom E-mail 
Subject, Secure PDF Password, Add Voice 
Annotation Attachment, etc.). Select any of these 
options as desired.

8. Review your list of destinations, then select 

Scan 

or 

press the 

Go 

 button.

Following is a brief description of the Scan settings. See 
the User’s Guide for detailed descriptions and procedures.

Basic Overview 

Follow the steps below to perform basic Scan Station 
operations. 

Basic operation

 means the Scan Station 

default settings are used. For more information and/or 
procedures on using your personal flash drive, see the 
User’s Guide for the 

Kodak

 Scan Station 500

.

Customizing your settings

If you want to change the default Scan settings, select 

Settings

 on the Destination screen. The settings you 

change remain in effect only for the current scan 
session.

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Settings

: toggles between the Settings 

and Destination screens and Exit.

Setting Shortcuts

: six Setting Shortcuts 

are provided to make scanning easier and 
faster. They are: 

Defaults, Black and 

White Document, Black and White 
Document (OCR Quality), Color 
Document, Color Document (OCR 
Quality), 

and

 Color Photographs

.

File Name Settings

: allows you to name a 

folder where scanned documents will be 
placed when scanning to a network folder, 
FTP location or USB flash drive 
destination. You can also define the file 
name prefix that will be applied to every 
scanned document created. Scanned 
documents are typically created with this 
prefix and have an optional date and time 
stamp appended to the prefix.

Scan As

: available options are 

Black and 

White, Grayscale 

or

 Color

.

File Type

: available file types:

PDF Searchable (Image + Text) 

and

 

PDF - Image only 

— creates a document 

or multiple documents that contain both 
text and image data or image data only.

JPEG

 — this option is only available if 

your 

Scan As

 selection is 

Color

 or 

Grayscale

. JPEG creates multiple files, 

one for the front and back of a page. If 
JPEG is selected, you can select 

Draft, 

Good, Better, Best 

or

 Superior 

quality. 

TIFF - Multi Page 

— creates one file that 

contains all of the scanned pages. You 
can select either 

Uncompressed

JPEG

 

or 

Group 4

 compression.

TIFF - Single Pages 

— creates multiple 

files, one for each side of a scanned 
page. You can select either 

Uncompressed

JPEG 

or

 Group 4

 

compression.

Input Document Is

: allows you to scan 

one side or two sides of a document.

Document Type:

 select if the document to 

be scanned is mostly Text, Photographs or 
a mix of Text with Graphics.

Resolution

: available resolutions are: 75, 

100, 150, 200, 240, 300, 400 and 600 dpi. 
The higher the resolution the sharper the 
image. 300 dpi is optimal for creating 
searchable PDF files.

Adjustments

: for black and white output 

only. You can choose 

Normal

 or 

Best

Normal

 allows you to select a threshold 

and contrast setting, 

Best

 allows you to 

choose only a contrast setting.

Copies for Printing

: select the number of 

copies (1-99) to print. 

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