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.
[B & W: Text / Line Art]
Standard black-and-white originals containing mainly characters (two-value). Creates scanned images suitable for printing.
[B & W: 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.
[Gray Scale]
Originals containing photographs and other pictures (multi-value). Creates scanned images suitable for displaying on a computer screen.
[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.
[Auto Color Select]
Scans originals by automatically judging the colors of the originals.
[Dropout Color] can be set when [Black & White: Text] is selected for [Original Type].
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 PDF File Setting of the file type, you must then select one of the following for Original Type: [Gray Scale], [Full Color: Text / Photo], or [Full Color: Glossy Photo].
If [High Compression PDF] is selected as the file type, areas of uneven shade may appear in the document. If this is the case, change the PDF File Setting to [PDF/A] or [PDF].