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Type of Original

Select an original type that is appropriate for your original.

[Black&White] / [Text]

Appropriate to increase OCR readability using an OCR-compliant application.

  • [Dropout Color]

    You can select not to scan the following colors: [Chromatic Color], [Red], [Green], and [Blue]. When you select a color to leave out of the scan, specify its level of coverage. There are five levels. Press [Narrow] to leave out colors that are closest to the specified color. Press [Wide] to broaden the coverage of the specified color and not scan those colors.

[Black&White] / [Text/Line Art]

Standard black and white originals containing mainly characters. Creates scanned images suitable for printing.

[Black&White] / [Text/Photo]

Originals containing a mixture of photographs, pictures and characters (two-value). Creates scanned images suitable for printing.

[Black&White] / [Photo]

Originals containing photographs and other pictures (two-value). Creates scanned images suitable for printing.

[Full Color] / [Text/Photo]

Originals for color printing mainly consisting of characters.

[Full Color] / [Glossy Photo]

Originals of silver salt photographs and other color pictures.

[Gray Scale]

Originals containing photographs and other pictures (multi-value). Creates scanned images suitable for displaying on a computer screen.

[Auto Color Select]

Scans originals by automatically judging the colors of the originals.

Note

  • [Dropout Color] can be set when [Black&White] / [Text] is selected for [Type of Original].

  • If [Auto Color Select] is selected, the machine may fail to correctly judge colors depending on the scanning condition or the contents of originals.

  • If you select [High Compression PDF] as the file type, you must then select one of the following for Type of Original: [Full Color], [Gray Scale].