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This section describes causes and remedies when scan results are not as expected.
Problem |
Cause |
Solution |
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The scanned image is dirty. |
The exposure glass, scanning glass or ADF is dirty. |
Clean them. See "Maintaining Your Machine", About This Machine . |
The image is distorted or out of position. |
The original was moved during scanning. |
Do not move the original during scanning. |
The image is distorted or out of position. |
The original was not pressed flat against the exposure glass. |
Make sure the original is pressed flat against the exposure glass. |
The scanned image is upside down. |
The original was placed upside down. |
Place the original in the correct orientation. See "Setting of Original Feed Type", Scanner Reference . |
No image results from scanning. |
The original was placed with the front and back reversed. |
When the original is placed directly on the exposure glass, the side to be scanned must face down. When the original is fed via the ADF, the side to be scanned must face up. |
Images are scanned in rotated. |
If you set the original with its top edge backward and save full color/gray scale images as a TIFF or JPEG file, they are scanned in rotated. |
When placing a stack of originals in the ADF, place their top edges first. See "Setting of Original Feed Type", Scanner Reference . |
The scanned image contains white spaces. |
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Scanning at a higher resolution may reduce the margins. |
The scanned image is grayed out or a text pattern appears in the background. |
You have scanned a copy guarded document protected from unauthorized copying. |
Check the document. For details about how to prevent unauthorized copying of the document, see "Using [Data security for copying]", Printer Reference . |
After an original is scanned, the following settings are canceled: Destination, Sender, E-mail text, Subject, and File name |
To prevent the scanned data being sent to the wrong destination, this machine has a function that cancels the settings once the scanned data is sent. |
Contact your service representative. |