Visioneer 430 - Manuals

V ISIONEER P ATRIOT 430 S CANNER U SER ’ S G UIDE 1 W ELCOME Your new Visioneer Patriot 430 scanner can quickly scan single-sided or double-sided stacks of color, grayscale, and black-and-white documents, up to 8.5" x 14", and place their images on your computer. W HAT ’ S IN THE B OX Before...

2 V ISIONEER P ATRIOT 430 S CANNER U SER ’ S G UIDE T HE V ISIONEER P ATRIOT 430 S CANNER Input tray —Holds documents in place. ADF cover release —Opens the cover on the ADF. Control panel —OneTouch scanning buttons. Output tray —Holds documents after being scanned. Status light —Shows the scanner’s...

W HAT Y OU N EED 3 W HAT Y OU N EED IBM-compatible Pentium 4 PC, or AMD equivalent with: ■ A CD-ROM drive ■ An available Universal Serial Bus (USB) port ■ Microsoft ® Windows ® operating system: Windows 2000 (Service Pack 4), Windows XP (Service Pack 1 and 2), or Windows Vista ■ Windows 2000 and XP ...

4 V ISIONEER P ATRIOT 430 S CANNER U SER ’ S G UIDE Installation Installation is a quick, four-step process: 1. Assemble the scanner 2. Install the software 3. Connect the power supply 4. Connect the USB cable and turn on the power B EFORE Y OU B EGIN Please make sure of the following before you beg...

S TEP 1: A SSEMBLE THE S CANNER 5 S TEP 1: A SSEMBLE THE S CANNER 1. Remove the scanner from its protective foam and plastic bag. 2. Check inside the document feeder mechanism and carefully remove any foam particles that may have gotten inside it. Leave the cover open so you can attach the Input tra...

6 V ISIONEER P ATRIOT 430 S CANNER U SER ’ S G UIDE S TEP 2: I NSTALL THE S OFTWARE To install the software: 1. Start Microsoft Windows and make sure no other applications are running. 2. Insert Disc 1 into your computer’s CD-ROM drive. The Installation menu automatically opens. Note: If the CD does...

S TEP 2: I NSTALL THE S OFTWARE 7 3. On the Main Menu, select Install Products . 4. Make sure the boxes for Nuance PaperPort® and Scanner Driver are checked. 5. Click Install Now.

8 V ISIONEER P ATRIOT 430 S CANNER U SER ’ S G UIDE T HE P APER P ORT I NSTALLATION B EGINS 1. The Select Language window opens for the PaperPort software. Click the drop-down menu arrow and select the language you want to use. Click OK . 2. On the PaperPort Welcome window, click Next . Installing P...

S TEP 2: I NSTALL THE S OFTWARE 9 4. The next window lists the choices of the drivers that you can install for your scanner. 5. Select the option you want. Click Next . ■ Full Install (OneTouch and TWAIN) —This is the recommended installation. It installs the OneTouch 4.0 software which provides the...

10 V ISIONEER P ATRIOT 430 S CANNER U SER ’ S G UIDE 6. During installation you will see this window asking you to select one of the images for the Color Space setting. Select the option that looks best to you and click Next . This sets a default gamma value for scans and can be changed later on. 7....

S TEP 3: C ONNECT THE P OWER S UPPLY 11 S TEP 3: C ONNECT THE P OWER S UPPLY Connect the power supply and power cord, and plug the power supply into an electrical outlet. To connect your Visioneer Patriot 430 scanner: 1. Plug the power supply into the power port on the scanner. 2. Plug the power cor...

12 V ISIONEER P ATRIOT 430 S CANNER U SER ’ S G UIDE S TEP 4: C ONNECT THE USB C ABLE AND T URN ON THE P OWER The Visioneer Patriot 430 scanner connects to any available USB port. Check your computer’s manual for USB port locations. 1. Remove any protective tape from the USB cable. 2. Plug the USB c...

S TEP 4: C ONNECT THE USB C ABLE AND T URN ON THE P OWER 13 If your computer is running Windows XP or Windows Vista, you will see a message similar to the following. 4. When you’re certain that the software has completely loaded, return to the “Complete the installation by connecting your hardware” ...

14 V ISIONEER P ATRIOT 430 S CANNER U SER ’ S G UIDE A DDITIONAL A PPLICATIONS A VAILABLE WITH Y OUR S CANNER Your scanner includes free, additional applications. To install the additional applications: 1. Return to the CD main menu and click on Install Products . 2. Select the additional applicatio...

16 V ISIONEER P ATRIOT 430 S CANNER U SER ’ S G UIDE V IEW AND S AVE THE U SER G UIDES 1. On the Main Menu of Disc 1 , click User Guides . 2. The Visioneer User Guides window opens. Use this window to view and save the User Guides you want. The User Guides are in Adobe ® PDF format. The Scanner Read...

V IEW AND S AVE THE U SER G UIDES 17 4. Return to the Visioneer User Guides window and repeat the process to open, view, and save all the other User Guides you want. The Scanner Readme file has late-breaking news about your scanner. The SharePoint Mini-Guide has information about a feature in the On...

18 V ISIONEER P ATRIOT 430 S CANNER U SER ’ S G UIDE R EGISTER Y OUR S CANNER AND C HECK FOR U PDATES Registering your scanner is important as it provides you with access to our free telephone support service. Registration also gives you free access to software updates for your scanner. To register ...

R EGISTER Y OUR S CANNER AND C HECK FOR U PDATES 19 Scanning You have several different scanning options with your Visioneer Patriot 430 scanner. Each method scans equally well, so use the one with appropriate options for the item you are scanning. ■ OneTouch Scanner Buttons —When you press either t...

20 V ISIONEER P ATRIOT 430 S CANNER U SER ’ S G UIDE L OAD D OCUMENTS TO S CAN 1. Adjust the paper guide for the width of paper, and make sure the input and output trays are fully extended. 2. Load the documents into the scanner face down with the tops of the page inserted into the Automatic Documen...

S CANNING FROM O NE T OUCH 21 S CANNING FROM O NE T OUCH OneTouch is your main scanning interface for using the scanner. The OneTouch LED on the scanner shows which scan setting will be used for scanning. It is scan setting 6 in the example below. The OneTouch Button Panel that you see on the comput...

22 V ISIONEER P ATRIOT 430 S CANNER U SER ’ S G UIDE S CAN FROM THE B UTTONS ON THE S CANNER 1. Check the LED number to make sure you’re using the scan setting you want. 2. To scan a one-sided document, press the Simplex button. To scan a two-sided document, press the Duplex button. In this example ...

S CANNING FROM O NE T OUCH 23 U SING THE O NE T OUCH B UTTON P ANEL The OneTouch Button Panel is your on-screen control for the scanner. 1. To open the OneTouch Button Panel, click the OneTouch icon. ■ The Button View is your main scanner control panel. Use it to scan or to see all nine buttons. ■ T...

24 V ISIONEER P ATRIOT 430 S CANNER U SER ’ S G UIDE T HE D EFAULT O NE T OUCH S ETTINGS ON Y OUR S CANNER Based on the recommended installation of PaperPort and the scanner driver, your scanner is pre-configured to scan items for various basic tasks, such as email or fax, then send the scanned imag...

C ONFIGURING THE O NE T OUCH B UTTONS 25 C ONFIGURING THE O NE T OUCH B UTTONS When you first connect your scanner to a computer, the scanner’s software configures each button with appropriate settings. Each OneTouch button configuration consists of a Destination Application , a Scan Configuration ,...

26 V ISIONEER P ATRIOT 430 S CANNER U SER ’ S G UIDE S ELECTING N EW S ETTINGS FOR A B UTTON 1. Click the button selection arrows to select the button you want to change. As you click the arrows to cycle through the buttons, the available settings on the window change to show them for each button. 2...

C ONFIGURING THE O NE T OUCH B UTTONS 27 4. Select a Format option. The formats are based on the type of Destination Application you select. See “Selecting Page Format Options” on page 39 for more information about the available formats. 5. Click OK to accept any changes and close the window. Note t...

28 V ISIONEER P ATRIOT 430 S CANNER U SER ’ S G UIDE C REATING A N EW S CAN C ONFIGURATION The scan configurations are where you select the scanning resolution, brightness, mode (color, black&white, or grayscale), and a number of other settings. To create a new configuration: 1. Open the OneTouc...

C ONFIGURING THE O NE T OUCH B UTTONS 29 T HE S CAN S ETTINGS T AB 1. On the Scan Configuration Properties dialog box, type a name. 2. Select scan settings for the new scan configuration. Mode —Select a scanning mode: ■ Black&White to scan in black and white. For example, letters and memos are u...

30 V ISIONEER P ATRIOT 430 S CANNER U SER ’ S G UIDE T HE P AGE S ETTINGS T AB Click the Page Settings tab to select page settings. Size —Click Standard , click the menu arrow and choose a page size from the list, or click Custom and enter the horizontal and vertical page dimensions in the boxes. Th...

C ONFIGURING THE O NE T OUCH B UTTONS 31 ■ Straighten Image —Select this option to let the scanner automatically determine if a page is skewed, then straighten its image. The input tray paper guides should be flush to the edges of the paper to prevent paper feeding in at too great of an angle. ■ Inv...

32 V ISIONEER P ATRIOT 430 S CANNER U SER ’ S G UIDE T HE A DVANCED S ETTINGS T AB The options of the Advanced Settings tab are for the Color or GrayScale scanning mode. 1. Drag the sliders to the left and right to change the color settings. As you do, the image changes to show the effects of the ne...

C ONFIGURING THE O NE T OUCH B UTTONS 33 T HE D EVICE S ETTINGS T AB A Device Settings tab is on the Scan Configurations dialog box when your selected Destination Application is a printer or fax application. Fit to page, reduce image if necessary —If the scanned image is too big to be printed or fax...

34 V ISIONEER P ATRIOT 430 S CANNER U SER ’ S G UIDE T HE S TORAGE O PTIONS T AB (A RCHIVE ) A Storage Options tab is on the Scan Configurations dialog box when the selected Destination Application is set as Transfer to Storage. See “Transferring Scanned Documents to Storage” on page 60 for instruct...

C ONFIGURING THE O NE T OUCH B UTTONS 35 E DITING OR D ELETING S CAN C ONFIGURATIONS To edit or delete a scan configuration: 1. Open the OneTouch Properties window. 2. Select the scan configuration you want to edit or delete. 3. To delete the configuration, click the Delete button. 4. To edit the co...

36 V ISIONEER P ATRIOT 430 S CANNER U SER ’ S G UIDE C ONFIGURE B EFORE S CAN Choosing Configure Before Scan simply opens either the TWAIN or WIA scanning interface when you press or click a button. You can then use the interface to change the Picture Type, Resolution, and other settings. When you s...

C ONFIGURING THE O NE T OUCH B UTTONS 37 WIA —The Windows Image Acquisition (WIA) Interface opens for you to make changes prior to scanning. Please see “Scanning from the WIA Interface” on page 73 for detailed instructions about scanning with the WIA Interface. 5. Select the Destination Application ...

38 V ISIONEER P ATRIOT 430 S CANNER U SER ’ S G UIDE C ANCELING A C ONFIGURE B EFORE S CAN 1. Click Cancel in the scanning progress window. 2. The following window will open asking if you want to cancel the entire job. ■ Yes —Scanning stops and all pages scanned in this batch, up to this point, will...

C ONFIGURING THE O NE T OUCH B UTTONS 39 S ELECTING P AGE F ORMAT O PTIONS The Page Format options that you select determines the file format of the scanned document. Appropriate page format options and file types are available for the type of Destination Application selected for the button. The Tex...

40 V ISIONEER P ATRIOT 430 S CANNER U SER ’ S G UIDE I MAGE F ORMATS Select an image file format for photos, artwork or other documents that you want to save as images. BMP and TIFF are standard image file formats generally used if you want to do additional image processing. Both of those file forma...

C ONFIGURING THE O NE T OUCH B UTTONS 41 T EXT F ORMATS Selecting the text format option also selects OCR processing as an automatic step for scanning. Therefore, when you scan a document with the text format selected, the text portions of the document are automatically converted to editable text. T...

42 V ISIONEER P ATRIOT 430 S CANNER U SER ’ S G UIDE Simple Text —The .txt file format. Text with no formatting; used by the standard Microsoft Notepad application. Rich Text Format —The .rtf file format. Text that retains formatting when converted. Available with Microsoft Wordpad and Word. Word Do...

C ONFIGURING THE O NE T OUCH B UTTONS 43 S ETTING D ESTINATION A PPLICATION P ROPERTIES In the OneTouch Properties window, select a Destination Application then click the Properties button. PaperPort Properties These properties apply to designating the PaperPort folder to receive your scanned items....

44 V ISIONEER P ATRIOT 430 S CANNER U SER ’ S G UIDE When PaperPort opens after you finish scanning, the thumbnails of your scanned documents are on the PaperPort Desktop in that folder. Text Documents Properties These properties apply to text editing applications such as Microsoft Word. The propert...

C ONFIGURING THE O NE T OUCH B UTTONS 47 Storage Properties These properties apply to the Destination Application named Transfer to Storage. If a CD burner is attached to your computer, you also use this dialog box to start the Burn to CD process. See the section “Scan and Burn to a CD” on page 57. ...

48 V ISIONEER P ATRIOT 430 S CANNER U SER ’ S G UIDE eMail Properties These properties apply to email applications so you can specify the folder for documents that you will attach to an email message. Microsoft Outlook ® will accept direct attachment of documents to a blank email message as soon as ...

C ONFIGURING THE O NE T OUCH B UTTONS 49 documentation for more information about Internet options. If you are using AOL, please see the AOL user manual for making changes to the Internet options applicable to AOK. 4. Select the options for color document handling. Convert Bitmaps using Screen Resol...

50 V ISIONEER P ATRIOT 430 S CANNER U SER ’ S G UIDE S ELECTING O PTIONS FOR A B UTTON The OneTouch Options determine the types of Destination Applications available for a button. There are also settings on the Options tab that are global to all OneTouch buttons. To select options: 1. Open the OneTo...

C ONFIGURING THE O NE T OUCH B UTTONS 53 S CANNING WITH O PTICAL C HARACTER R ECOGNITION (OCR) Optical Character Recognition (OCR) converts text and numbers on a scanned page into editable text and numbers. You can then work with the text and numbers to edit, spellcheck, change font or type size, so...

54 V ISIONEER P ATRIOT 430 S CANNER U SER ’ S G UIDE To scan with OCR from the Scanner Buttons: 1. Press the Function button to select an LED number that has a text editing program as the selected Destination Application. 2. Press the Simplex or Duplex button on the scanner. Your scanned pages are s...

C ONFIGURING THE O NE T OUCH B UTTONS 55 S CANNING WITH S PDF OR N PDF AND S EARCHING FOR T EXT Searchable PDF (sPDF) and Normal PDF (nPDF) are special forms of an Adobe PDF file. sPDF converts scanned text into the PDF format with text search and OCR capabilities. nPDF has those same features, plus...

56 V ISIONEER P ATRIOT 430 S CANNER U SER ’ S G UIDE 4. Choose the Searchable PDF or Normal PDF option for the page format. 5. The settings for the button (Button 8 in this example) now show your page format selection. 6. Choose a Scan Configuration. 7. Click OK . The OneTouch Properties window clos...

C ONFIGURING THE O NE T OUCH B UTTONS 57 S CAN AND B URN TO A CD If you have a CD burner attached to your computer, you can scan directly from your scanner onto a CD. This feature is available only on computers running Windows XP or Windows Vista 1. Open the OneTouch Properties window. 2. Select Bur...

58 V ISIONEER P ATRIOT 430 S CANNER U SER ’ S G UIDE S CANNING WITH E VENT F ORWARDING If you want to specify an application to use for scanning at the start of the process, you can use event forwarding. 1. Open the OneTouch Properties window. 2. Select Still Image Client as the Destination Applicat...

C ONFIGURING THE O NE T OUCH B UTTONS 59 C REATING AN HTML W EB P AGE FROM Y OUR S CANNED D OCUMENTS You can convert scanned pages to HTML format for posting directly to your web site. Those pages are then viewable by visitors to your web site without the need for any internet plug-ins or other spec...

60 V ISIONEER P ATRIOT 430 S CANNER U SER ’ S G UIDE T RANSFERRING S CANNED D OCUMENTS TO S TORAGE With the Transfer to Storage scanning process, you can scan documents and save them in a folder in one step. The process is ideal for archiving documents without having to manually save or process them...

62 V ISIONEER P ATRIOT 430 S CANNER U SER ’ S G UIDE 7. Click the Storage Options tab. 8. Click the Browse button. 9. Select the folder you created for storing the scanned documents. If you haven’t created the folder yet, you can click the Make New Folder button and type the name for the new folder.

C ONFIGURING THE O NE T OUCH B UTTONS 63 10. Click OK . The selected folder will now be set as the Storage Location, such as “Business Receipts.” 11. Click OK . The new configuration is now listed as a Transfer to Storage configuration. 12. Repeat the process to create additional new configurations,...

66 V ISIONEER P ATRIOT 430 S CANNER U SER ’ S G UIDE C HECKING THE H ARDWARE AND S ETTING THE L AMP P OWER S AVING 1. Right-click on the OneTouch icon and choose Show Hardware from the pop-up menu. You can also click the Hardware icon at the top of the OneTouch Button Panel, or right-click on the Pa...

C ONFIGURING THE O NE T OUCH B UTTONS 67 2. Click the Properties button. Your scanner has a built-in power saving feature that is set to power down after 15 minutes of idle time. You can change the time before the scanner powers down, from 10 minutes to a maximum of 10 hours. 3. Click the arrows for...

68 V ISIONEER P ATRIOT 430 S CANNER U SER ’ S G UIDE Scanning from the TWAIN Interface You can scan from any TWAIN scanning application instead of scanning from the OneTouch buttons on your scanner or the OneTouch button panel. A Note About Your Scanner and the TWAIN standard: TWAIN is a widely reco...

S CANNING WITH THE TWAIN I NTERFACE 69 S CANNING WITH THE TWAIN I NTERFACE The TWAIN Interface is available from many applications, such as Microsoft Word and Paint, as well as from the PaperPort. You can use the instructions in this section regardless of the application you use to open the TWAIN In...

70 V ISIONEER P ATRIOT 430 S CANNER U SER ’ S G UIDE T HE OPTIONS ON THE TWAIN INTERFACE ARE : Mode —Select a scanning mode: Black&White to scan in black and white. Use this setting for letters, memos, and other black and white material. This scan mode produces the smallest file size. Grayscale ...

72 V ISIONEER P ATRIOT 430 S CANNER U SER ’ S G UIDE AutoScan on document insertion —Your Visioneer Patriot 430 scanner includes AutoLaunch technology that senses when an item is inserted into the paper feed and starts scanning immediately. Select this option to turn on the AutoLaunch feature. The i...

S CANNING WITH THE TWAIN I NTERFACE 73 Scanning from the WIA Interface Microsoft Windows XP and Windows Vista include their own scanning interface—known as Windows Image Acquisition (WIA)—for acquiring images from scanners, digital cameras, and other digital devices. This section shows how to use Mi...

74 V ISIONEER P ATRIOT 430 S CANNER U SER ’ S G UIDE 3. The WIA scanning window opens. Use this window to select scanning options and start the scanner. 4. Click the button most appropriate for the item you’re scanning. 5. Select a paper size from the Page Size list. 6. Adjust the image settings as ...

F INE T UNING Y OUR S CANS 75 F INE T UNING Y OUR S CANS You can customize settings before you scan an item to fine tune exactly how you want to scan it. 1. On the scan window, click Adjust the quality of the scanned picture . 2. The Advanced Properties dialog box opens. 3. Select the options for sc...

76 V ISIONEER P ATRIOT 430 S CANNER U SER ’ S G UIDE Maintenance This section contains information on maintenance, troubleshooting, uninstalling, scanner specifications, and spare parts. C LEARING P APER J AMS If your scanner stops scanning due to a paper jam in the Automatic Document Feeder, a warn...

R EPLACE THE ADF P AD A SSEMBLY 77 4. Wipe the ADF pad from top to bottom. Be careful not to snag the cloth on the springs on either side of the pad. 5. Close the cover when you’re finished. R EPLACE THE ADF P AD A SSEMBLY The ADF pad will wear out and is designed to be a user-replaceable part. Prob...

78 V ISIONEER P ATRIOT 430 S CANNER U SER ’ S G UIDE R EPLACING THE R OLLER A SSEMBLY After extended use, the roller may wear out and may need to be replaced. It is a user-replaceable part and can be reordered. Frequent paper jams are a symptom of a worn roller assembly. A worn roller can cause docu...

R EPLACING THE R OLLER A SSEMBLY 79 5. Discard the worn roller. It cannot be repaired. 6. Before installing the new roller, clean any dust that may have gotten on it during shipping. 7. To install the new roller, insert the right end of the roller into its housing socket. Make sure the lock tab is f...

80 V ISIONEER P ATRIOT 430 S CANNER U SER ’ S G UIDE 8. When you are certain that the gears are engaged, swing the roller into it scanner and align the left side with its mount. Then gently slide the roller to the left to fit its left end into its mount. Make sure the left end of the roller is firml...

T ROUBLESHOOTING 81 T ROUBLESHOOTING In addition to the troubleshooting information contained in this section, please see the Readme file on your installation CD. The Readme file contains additional information that may help you diagnose problems with the scanner. If you try the troubleshooting proc...

82 V ISIONEER P ATRIOT 430 S CANNER U SER ’ S G UIDE Problem: The installation will not complete successfully. If installation finishes, the scanner’s OneTouch 4.0 options do not seem to work properly. What do I do? A likely cause is that some driver programs are already installed on your computer f...

T ROUBLESHOOTING 83 Patriot 430 Scanner Parts List” on page 88 for the ordering number. See “Replace the ADF Pad Assembly” on page 77 for the steps to replace the pad. Problem: If the USB cable is disconnected during a scan, the scanner does not reconnect when the USB cable is plugged back in. Unplu...

84 V ISIONEER P ATRIOT 430 S CANNER U SER ’ S G UIDE The table below describes the error codes. Error Code Problem Description Solution 0 The scanner is not communicating with the computer. Make sure the USB cable is plugged in. If the USB cable is plugged into a hub, try plugging it directly into t...

U NINSTALL Y OUR S CANNER 85 U NINSTALL Y OUR S CANNER To uninstall the Visioneer Patriot 430 scanner, remove the OneTouch 4.0 software, PaperPort, and any other software provided with your scanner. U NINSTALLING THE S CANNER AND O NE T OUCH S OFTWARE 1. On the Windows taskbar, click Start , point t...

86 V ISIONEER P ATRIOT 430 S CANNER U SER ’ S G UIDE T O I NSTALL A NOTHER D RIVER Before you can install another driver for your scanner, you must remove the currently installed driver first. Then the new driver can be installed. 1. Uninstall the OneTouch 4.0 driver. a. Open the Windows Control Pan...

88 V ISIONEER P ATRIOT 430 S CANNER U SER ’ S G UIDE V ISIONEER P ATRIOT 430 S CANNER P ARTS L IST Please use the following part names and numbers when ordering replacements for your scanner . Part Name Part Number Input Tray 57-0112-000 Output Tray 57-0108-000 ADF Pad 57-0111-000 Roller Assembly 57...

I NDEX 89 I N D E X A ADF cleaning 76 ADF pad assembly replace 77 Advanced Properties 75Advanced Settings Tab 32aspect ratio 33Autocrop to Original 30, 70AutoRotate image 33 B bit depth 87Black&White 29, 70BMP 40Brightness 29, 70, 75Burn to CD 47, 57button options 50buttons configuring 25 C CD-R...

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