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Installation and User’s Guide

For

Konica Minolta Business Solutions’

TWAIN Driver V.5.0.1.7b &

Overlay Manager Software

September 10, 2004

Summary of Contents for MS 2000

Page 1: ...Installation and User s Guide For Konica Minolta Business Solutions TWAIN Driver V 5 0 1 7b Overlay Manager Software September 10 2004...

Page 2: ...4 The MS 7000 TWAIN Driver User s Guide THE MS 7000 SCANNER SETUP USER INTERFACE BATCH SCAN MODE MARS CONTROLLER BUTTONS Section 5 TWAIN Configuration Utility Status Window Section 6 Overlay Manager U...

Page 3: ...olutions and is a 5 pin Mini Centronics on the scanner end and a 50 pin HD SCSI 2 on the PC side You will need to supply a standard SCSI interface card for the PC as well as a SCSI cable We have teste...

Page 4: ...has completed its scan and installs it will launch a status window showing all the connected Minolta hardware and all installed drivers data sources see Section 5 for more details Make any necessary...

Page 5: ...ides as well ctions in the TWAIN driv the driver is closed and reop n front panel settings Section 3 The MS 6000 TWAIN Driver User s Guide The MS 6000 is KMBS low to mid volume Microform scanner It is...

Page 6: ...panel will be locked When the display stops flashing the scanner s control panel is once again active Scan Settings The Scan Settings section allows you to define three key elements of the scanner s s...

Page 7: ...zes cannot be provides functionality for defining a custom scan area See the Preview Window section for more information Image Type This drop down box lets you define the bit depth of the image If the...

Page 8: ...ot permanently stored but rather kept in temporary memory by the application software Therefore the number of scans that can be stored will be dependent on image file sizes the application itself as w...

Page 9: ...uttons can be selected m of 4 per side T d displayed in the preview window ARS Controller Buttons hese series of buttons allow users to interface with a connected MARS 4 or MARS Mini 2 ontroller to co...

Page 10: ...the currently loaded film to be advanced by one blip mark This button will cause the currently loaded film to be rewound by one blip mark Frame Number Box The frame number box will display the current...

Page 11: ...of the MS 6000 Selecting negative will cause each pixel to be converted to its converse shade e black to white light gray to dark gray etc Selecting auto will cause the scanner to i compare light area...

Page 12: ...art a legibility Auto Frame Elimination When scanning an area larger than that needed for the current image you may ish to c w box will cause the scanner to try and determine if there any unnecessary...

Page 13: ...xt will become crisper and better defined Fine Mode 1 selected Original is photo selected Original is photo not selected Fine Mode 2 Selecting this setting will cause the scanned images to be affected...

Page 14: ...this area to enter a number of cards that will be feed in a single scanning session Masking Cropping This setting will try to auto detect black or darkly shaded areas around the border of an image and...

Page 15: ...higher brightness will result in more pixels being set to black Please note that all Brightness and Contrast controls are applied prior to any Halftone or Photo settings Brightness settings can be adj...

Page 16: ...confirming scan settings and for ed in the e right the custom scan area has file This file contains detailed information on working with the driver Much of the information contained in this guide can...

Page 17: ...version of the driver you are running Sectio MS 7000 is Minolta s newest large format Microform Scanner It is very similar to its decessor the MS 3000 however it offers many new features In order to...

Page 18: ...by the scan area marker in the preview window see below Preview Window en changing settings via the scanner s front panel the driver UI will update in real tim g as the driver is currently launched W...

Page 19: ...letter portrait or ledger sized scan area will be resized to an 8 high image All button see below or the Start button on the MS 7000 s front panel note that the scan areas scan positions and scan sett...

Page 20: ...edger Legal and Letter paper sizes can be selected via the front panel of the MS 7000 If any other size scan area is desired an optional Manual Masking Kit when installed can provide functionality for...

Page 21: ...al ruler runs along icates which form of nt inches or is currently being e ruler Left clicking will switch the form ment between inches eters w The preview window itself represents the entire 12 x17 s...

Page 22: ...mooth rough edges and enhance photographic areas but will typically blur textual images This setting can be more useful when scanning tonal images at lower resolutions on Photo Mode Batch Scan The Bat...

Page 23: ...be ed will be dependent on image file sizes the application itself as well as available system ory ch Scanning in Ariel 3 0 el 3 0 adds support for TWAIN scanning Because Ariel is designed for Automa...

Page 24: ...o perform an auto focus In order to utilize the nced ontrols Film Type Use this drop down box to define the polarity of the film to be scanned Selecting positive will cause all images to be displayed...

Page 25: ...Elimination versus Automatic Masking ill cause an 8 bit grayscale image to be delivered as s Halftone Halftone is closely related to Photo Mode and offers more advanced algorithms for processing a sc...

Page 26: ...d and no dithering This is an ideal setting for enhancing text or line art legibility Fine Mode 2 None e Grayscal Will cause the image to undergo a sharpening process that is slightly less pronounced...

Page 27: ...al or Stacking modes This drop down box allows you to activate this feature as well as define the time interval of non usage need itialize scan settings from scanner Retrieve the current scan settings...

Page 28: ...Image Type set for black and white a low brightness setting will cause the brightness ote that all Brightness and Contrast controls are applied prior to any Halftone or Photo settings Brightness sett...

Page 29: ...ll scans must be initialized via the front panel Start button Scan All When the MS 7000 is set for Dual Scan Mode the Scan button will change to a Scan All button In addition to the Scan All button a...

Page 30: ...he most liable means for determining which version of the driver you are running the application The preview function is very useful for confirming scan settings and Preview button once an image has b...

Page 31: ...led it will remain on the system even if the applicable scanner is later disconnected Any pter to which they are connected The scanner s name will be shown as well as the nnel and SCSI ID associated w...

Page 32: ...cted driver is selected you can press the Remove button to delete that driver from your system The Scanner Settings Window will look exactly the same as the Driver s User Interface with the exception...

Page 33: ...actually design and store the overlay bitmap file figuration Editor The Overlay Configuration Editor is the canner for overlay use It is where you define the overlay position of the overlay and weathe...

Page 34: ...les is explained in detail below with further instructions for using dynamic overlays d as a small MS 7000 scanner icon with Monitor automatically start each time Windows is Dynamic In Dynamic mode th...

Page 35: ...when the nner is working in dynamic mode low Screen busy This indicates that the Overlay Monitor has detected that the cted scanner is currently busy or that the Overlay Monitor is currently communica...

Page 36: ...he Overlay Image Editor allows you to actually design the bitmap that will become the overlay Restart Causes the Overlay Monitor to restart This can be useful to reinitialize or resend the overlay dat...

Page 37: ...square inches Thus an verlay 7 86 inches long would be approximate 2 ering the size f the overlay you will be required to enter the size in pixels To determine the actual size in inches simply divide...

Page 38: ...o do so requires that the scanner be running in dynamic mode i e the Overlay Monitor is open and active and the scanner is connected to the PC Adding dynamic text is very similar to adding static text...

Page 39: ...Files Minolta Overlay Manager directory or in the he Overlay Manager software After selecting the f when ap you notice that it s very dark or all black this is because during o black and white and a...

Page 40: ...dule The Configuration Editor The Overlay Configuration Editor is where users can select the overlay to use as well as the position where the overlay will be placed on the printout Think of it as miss...

Page 41: ...clear the current overlay stored in the scanner s permanent memory select the clear ovr overlay and apply it while in static mode Browse Click the browse button to search your files for a specific ov...

Page 42: ...xt settings will remain constant over every print Do not render any dynamic strings This indicates that you wish to remove any dynamic text from an overlay being used in static mode Thus only static t...

Page 43: ...ns and then use applications to edit store or send the final copy o scan with the PS 7000 the user must en o and the front panel of the PS 7000 is set to operate in PC mode The scanner can be configur...

Page 44: ...tting allows users to choose whether to have the PS 7000 deliver either one image or a series of two images one each for the left and rights sides Your choices in the Sca Spread When in dual mode the...

Page 45: ...splay will show you an arrow pointing left and two different paper sizes and an arrow pointing right Use the buttons under the arrow tabs to cycle through the different paper sizes Select the paper si...

Page 46: ...The Batch Scan Mode might arguably be the most useful feature of the Minolta TWAIN ost application software the TWAIN driver UI is launched when an Import or n the File Transfer Status Window driver W...

Page 47: ...h Scanning Mode are not permanently stored but ept in temporary memory by the application software Therefore the number of available system memory t recommended to use version 5 0 1 7b with Ariel Soft...

Page 48: ...Scan Mode these two buttons will become enabled and the Scan Action Button see the Action Buttons section below will change to a Scan All button The Left Right buttons can then be used to scan only on...

Page 49: ...is selected this value will work as a small adjustment t and 90 In grayscale a lower brightness setting will r When scanning w cause the threshold process to result in more pixels being set to white w...

Page 50: ...button a Scan Left and a Scan Right button will activate under the Preview Window The user now has a choice of three potential scan buttons The Scan All button will cause the PS 7000 to scan both the...

Page 51: ...ll launch the PS 3000 Scanner Setup Window This is your User Interface UI for communicating to the TWAIN driver It allows you to configure the PS 3000 as you like prior to scanning Please note that th...

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Page 53: ...reflected in the Preview Window via a dashed box When in single scan mode any selected size will be centered in the middle of the 11 x 17 scan area Please note that when in Dual Scan mode you cannot...

Page 54: ...driver We hope to offer some Front Panel support in a future version of the driver Automatic Mask Mode This setting will try to auto detect black or darkly shaded areas around the border of an image...

Page 55: ...choose to ignore this error by not checking the box then the PS ill automatically disable the auto exposure for just the immediate scan and proceed e AE setting as a manual exposure level Size Warnin...

Page 56: ...t rather inolta Scanners can be tricky In order to perform batch scanning with the PS 3000 make sure to 1 Have Auto Scan Mode check box selected in the Ariel Scan window 2 Click the More button in the...

Page 57: ...sed to scan only one side of the total scan area rather than scanning both sides at once as would happen with the Scan All button functionality that makes working with the PS 7000 easier and faster Th...

Page 58: ...important tasks or launch support windows Here is a detailed description of what these buttons do Scan Clicking the Scan button will cause the PS 3000 to initiate a scan using the currently selected c...

Page 59: ...uding the current driver version number This is the most reliable means for determining which version of the driver you are running resolution scan that will be display transferred to the application...

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