Visioneer 7600 SERIES - Manuals

2 V ISIONEER O NE T OUCH 7600 S CANNER I NSTALLATION G UIDE Part 1: Installation I NSTALLING THE 7600 USB S CANNER This section of the manual contains instructions for the OneTouch 7600 USB. Please see “Installing the 7600 Parallel Scanner” on page 8 if you’re using a OneTouch 7600 Parallel. W HAT Y...

T HE O NE T OUCH 7600 USB S CANNER 3 T HE O NE T OUCH 7600 USB S CANNER 7 Glass Document pad 5 4 3 2 1 Reference frame Document cover USB port Power jack Five-Button panel 6 Document cover. Close the document cover after placing items on the scanner glass. Document pad. Helps to secure the document ...

4 V ISIONEER O NE T OUCH 7600 S CANNER I NSTALLATION G UIDE G ETTING H ELP The PaperPort software includes a complete set of help topics that answer questions about the scanner and its software. To get help while using the PaperPort software: • Press the F1 key, or from the Help menu, choose PaperPo...

STEP 1: I NSTALLING THE P APER P ORT S OFTWARE 5 3. Follow the instructions on the screen to install the PaperPort software on your computer. Later, after the scanner is working, you can install the other applications provided on the CD. 4. During installation, a message will tell you to connect the...

6 V ISIONEER O NE T OUCH 7600 S CANNER I NSTALLATION G UIDE STEP 2: C ONNECTING THE S CANNER TO THE C OMPUTER The Visioneer OneTouch 7600 USB scanner connects to any available USB port. Check your computer’s manual for its USB port locations. To connect the Visioneer 7600 USB scanner:1. Plug one end...

8 V ISIONEER O NE T OUCH 7600 S CANNER I NSTALLATION G UIDE I NSTALLING THE 7600 P ARALLEL S CANNER This section of the manual contains instructions for the Visioneer OneTouch 7600 Parallel scanner. W HAT Y OU N EED To use the 7600 Parallel scanner and software, you need the following: • IBM PC (or ...

T HE O NE T OUCH 7600 P ARALLEL S CANNER 9 T HE O NE T OUCH 7600 P ARALLEL S CANNER 7 Glass Document pad 8 5 4 3 2 1 Reference frame Document cover To Printer Power jack To Host PC parallel Five-Button panel 6 Document cover. Close the document cover after placing items on the scanner glass. Documen...

10 V ISIONEER O NE T OUCH 7600 S CANNER I NSTALLATION G UIDE G ETTING H ELP The PaperPort software includes a complete set of help topics that answer questions about the scanner and its software. To get help while using the PaperPort software: • Press the F1 key, or from the Help menu, choose PaperP...

12 V ISIONEER O NE T OUCH 7600 S CANNER I NSTALLATION G UIDE 7. Plug the power adapter cable into the jack on the scanner. 8. Plug the power adapter into an AC (wall) outlet. The following diagram shows the completed cable connections. When you plug the scanner’s power adapter into a wall outlet an ...

STEP 2: I NSTALLING THE P APER P ORT S OFTWARE 13 STEP 2: I NSTALLING THE P APER P ORT S OFTWARE The PaperPort CD includes all the PaperPort software files. The CD also includes the PaperPort User’s Guide, the manual for your PaperPort software. You can read the guide while the CD is running, or pri...

14 V ISIONEER O NE T OUCH 7600 S CANNER I NSTALLATION G UIDE C HECKING I T O UT This section of the manual applies to both models of the Visioneer OneTouch scanner—the 7600 USB scanner and the 7600 Parallel scanner. The OneTouch scanner software adds the scanner icon to the Windows taskbar (at the b...

C HECKING I T O UT 15 3. Choose About from the shortcut menu. A dialog box confirms that the scanner is connected properly. The About dialog box shown below is for the 7600 USB scanner. The dialog box for the 7600 Parallel scanner is similar. 4. Click OK to close the dialog box. That’s it. Your scan...

16 V ISIONEER O NE T OUCH 7600 S CANNER I NSTALLATION G UIDE drive or SyQuest drive which must be connected directly to the computer and the scanner then connected to the drive). Plug the scanner into the computer’s parallel port first, then plug the next device into the scanner. • Did you restart t...

T HREE W AYS TO S CAN 17 Part 2: Scanning T HREE W AYS TO S CAN You can scan items by pressing a OneTouch button, clicking a button on the screen, or from the PaperPort software (or other Twain software). • Scan with the Scanner Buttons Press a button on the scanner’s front panel. • Scan from the Sc...

18 V ISIONEER O NE T OUCH 7600 S CANNER I NSTALLATION G UIDE S CANNING B Y P RESSING THE O NE T OUCH B UTTONS Pressing a scanner button scans the item and then sends the image either to the printer to print, or to a software application on your computer. To scan with a button: • Place an item to sca...

S CANNING FROM THE S CREEN 19 S CANNING FROM THE S CREEN Scanning from the screen is just like pressing a scanner button, except you click the button on the screen. The scanner scans the item and then sends the image either to the printer to print, or to a software application on your computer. This...

20 V ISIONEER O NE T OUCH 7600 S CANNER I NSTALLATION G UIDE A BOUT THE O NE T OUCH B UTTONS The OneTouch buttons are pre-configured to scan items at various settings, and then send the scanned image to a pre-selected software application. You can change the settings for each button except the Stop/...

C HANGING THE B UTTON S ETTINGS 21 C HANGING THE B UTTON S ETTINGS Each button setting can be changed to optimize the scanner for the type of scanning you want to do. To change a button’s settings:1. Press and hold down the button that you want to change (except the Stop/Cancel button). The Preferen...

22 V ISIONEER O NE T OUCH 7600 S CANNER I NSTALLATION G UIDE 2. Click the tab of the button you want to change, if it isn’t already selected. 3. Scroll the list of Application to Send Scanned Data To and click the new application you want to use to view and work with the scanned image. 4. Click a se...

C HANGING THE B UTTON S ETTINGS 23 If you want to select a configuration prior to scanning, click the option, Configure before Scanning. Then, when you press a scanner button, the Visioneer Scan Manager appears first and you can select a configuration before scanning. 5. Select the Scanner Button Op...

24 V ISIONEER O NE T OUCH 7600 S CANNER I NSTALLATION G UIDE A DJUSTING S CAN S ETTINGS AND P AGE S ETTINGS If you’re scanning using a scan configuration that you define yourself, you can adjust that configuration’s scan settings and page settings. For example, if the scanned image is too dark, you ...

C HANGING THE B UTTON S ETTINGS 25 3. If you haven’t defined a configuration yet, click the New button to create a new configuration. You can also select one of the predefined configurations and then click the Copy button to copy it. 4. Click the Edit button. The dialog box for adjusting the scannin...

26 V ISIONEER O NE T OUCH 7600 S CANNER I NSTALLATION G UIDE Resolution—Drag the slider to the right or left to adjust the dots per inch (dpi) of the resolution. The maximum resolution is 600 dpi, the minimum is 50 dpi. The higher the dpi setting, the sharper and clearer the scanned image. However, ...

C HANGING THE B UTTON S ETTINGS 27 distorted or wavy appearance. The scanner scans the item to compensate for the patterns and dots, and produces a clearer image. The scanning may slow down a bit when this option is selected. You don’t need to select this option when scanning photographs. Gamma—Drag...

28 V ISIONEER O NE T OUCH 7600 S CANNER I NSTALLATION G UIDE S CANNING FROM THE P APER P ORT S OFTWARE Instead of using the scanner’s buttons, you can scan directly from the PaperPort software. This is particularly helpful when you’re using PaperPort to file and save your scanned items. To scan from...

S CANNING FROM THE P APER P ORT S OFTWARE 29 S CANNING AN I TEM WITH THE T WAIN B UTTON The following procedure provides the basic steps for scanning an item using the Twain button in the PaperPort software. You can scan many types of items, from small business cards to A4-sized pages. To scan an it...

30 V ISIONEER O NE T OUCH 7600 S CANNER I NSTALLATION G UIDE 4. Select the options that you want for the scan. Scan Page For—Select one of these pre-set options if you want to use it for scanning. These options are optimized for the various uses of scanned images, such as scanning for editing text o...

S CANNING FROM THE P APER P ORT S OFTWARE 31 Res—This is the resolution setting for the scan in dots-per-inch (dpi). The higher the dpi, the sharper the image. But higher dpi settings also produce larger files sizes. Usually the higher resolution settings are used for precision work, such as photogr...

32 V ISIONEER O NE T OUCH 7600 S CANNER I NSTALLATION G UIDE 8. When you’re satisfied with the image settings, click the Scan button. The scanner now re-scans the item and displays the final image as a thumbnail on the PaperPort Desktop. Please see the PaperPort Getting Started Guide and PaperPort U...

34 V ISIONEER O NE T OUCH 7600 S CANNER I NSTALLATION G UIDE A DJUSTING THE B RIGHTNESS AND C ONTRAST Sometimes an item is scanned with the brightness and contrast set to be too light or too dark. For example, a note written with a light pencil may need to be scanned darker to improve legibility. Yo...

C LEANING THE S CANNER G LASS 35 4. Drag the Contrast slider to the left to decrease the contrast or to the right to increase the contrast. See the Help information for more details about the Advanced Settings dialog box. C LEANING THE S CANNER G LASS Scanning items that have excessive amounts of di...

36 V ISIONEER O NE T OUCH 7600 S CANNER I NSTALLATION G UIDE V ISIONEER O NE T OUCH 7600 S CANNER S PECIFICATIONS Bit Depth 36-Bit color (internal), 10-Bit gray (internal), 1-Bit line art/text Scanning resolution Optical resolution: 600 x 1200 dpi Maximum resolution (interpolated):2400 x 2400 dpi Ma...