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Scanning

Scanning an Image

Turning on this product
Placing your materials on the document table
Starting the software and scanning an image

EPSON Scan Tool Light provides two modes in which you can adjust your scanning settings; Home Mode, and Professional Mode. This section describes how to scan an image.

Note:

An alert will appear on the screen if you try to scan an image with a size that exceeds the available memory or disk space. You cannot scan an image with a size that exceeds the available memory or disk space.

Caution:

Before following the steps outlined, make sure that all the necessary software including EPSON Scan Tool Light has been installed. For details about how to install the software, refer to the Setup Sheet.

Turning on this product

Make sure this product is connected to your computer before turning it on.

Press the Power button to turn on this product. The Power light on the control panel flashes then remains lit, indicating that this product has completed its initialization.

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Placing your materials on the document table

You can scan reflective documents such as photos or papers. See the appropriate link below for instructions on setting your materials on the document table.

Placing Photos and Documents on the Document Table.

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Starting the software and scanning an image

You can start EPSON Scan Tool Light in the following ways.

Start EPSON Scan Tool Light directly as a standalone application

Start EPSON Scan Tool Light from a TWAIN-compliant application

This section describes how to scan an image from EPSON Scan Tool Light. For details on the other way to start EPSON Scan Tool Light from a (or the) TWAIN-compliant application, see Starting EPSON Scan Tool Light.

Start EPSON Scan Tool Light.

EPSON Scan Tool Light starts and the following window appears.

Select San & Save as the Job Occasion setting.

Specify the Location in the Occasion Information field.

Specify any Scan Option settings.

Click the Scan button to start scanning.

File formats

The following table lists some common image file formats. Select an appropriate format which is supported by your image processing application for saving image files.

Format (File extension)	Explanation
BMP format (*.BMP)	BMP is a standard image file format in Windows. Most Windows applications including word processor applications can read and treat images in this format.
TIFF format (*.TIF)	TIFF is a file format which is designed for data exchange between applications such as graphics software and DTP software.
JPEG format (*.JPG)	JPEG is a compressed file format, which allows a choice in compression quality. However, if the compression is too high, the image quality deteriorates. The image quality also deteriorates every time the image file is saved in JPEG. If you edit an image file after saving it, the original image should be preserved in a file format other than JPEG.

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