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Make Suitable Settings

For photos
For films

For photos

Follow the steps below to make settings suitable for scanning photos (reflective documents) in the Professional Mode.

Place photos on the document table. If necessary, see the following section for more information.

Placing Documents and Photos

Start EPSON Scan and then select the Professional Mode. For details on how to select a scanning mode, see Changing a scanning mode.

The setting window appears. Specify the settings to match your document referring to the illustration and the table below.

Original	Document Type	Reflective
	Document Source	Document Table
	Auto Exposure Type	Photo
Destination	Image Type	Select a suitable image type.
Destination	Resolution	Select an appropriate resolution. See Select the suitable resolution.
Adjustment	To be set in a later step.

Click Preview to preview the images.

Use Target Size to specify the output size of the scanned image. Also, specify the Adjustments settings, if necessary. See Create Beautiful Reproductions for details.

Click Scan to start scanning.
The scanned image is saved to the specified folder.

Select the suitable resolution

When you specify a high resolution, the number of pixels of the data increases and the scanned image becomes fine in texture. However, increasing the resolution causes the data size to increase. Specify a suitable resolution according to the scanning purpose.

The following table indicates the suitable resolution to use according to the scanning purpose.

Purpose	Resolution
Sending E-mail	96 to 150 dpi
OCR (Optical Character Recognition)	300 dpi
Printing	300 dpi
Filing	300 dpi
Sending Fax	200 dpi

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For films

Follow the steps below to make settings suitable for scanning films in the Professional Mode.

Place your films on the document table. If necessary, see the following section for more information.

Placing Films

Start EPSON Scan and then select the Professional Mode. For details on how to select the scanning mode, see Changing a scanning mode.

The setting window appears. Specify the settings to match your document referring to the illustration and the table below.

Specify the Original settings to match your films.

Document Type	Film
Film Type	Select a film type from the Film Type list.

Specify the Destination settings to match the resulting image file you desire.

Image Type	Select a suitable image type from the Image Type list.
Resolution	Select a suitable resolution from the Resolution list. See Select the suitable resolution for details.

Note:

When you specify a high resolution, the number of pixels of the data increases and the scanned image becomes fine in texture. However, increasing the resolution causes the data size to increase. Specify a suitable resolution according to the scanning purpose.

The following table indicates the suitable resolution to use according to the scanning purpose.

Purpose	Resolution
Sending E-mail	96 to 150 dpi
Printing	300 dpi
Filing	300 dpi

Click Preview to preview the images.

Use Target Size to specify the output size of the scanned image. Also, specify the Adjustments settings, if necessary. See Create Beautiful Reproductions for details. (You may need to scroll to the bottom of the screen.)

Click Scan to start scanning.
The scanned image is saved to the specified folder.

For Perfection 2580 Photo users:

When you finish scanning, we recommend that you eject the film from the Auto Film Loader.

Press the Eject button.

Remove the film after you see the Start button light turns on (green).

Note:

Do not turn off the scanner before ejecting the film. If you do so accidentally, turn on the scanner again and then press the Eject button.

Do not force to out the film but wait until it is ejected automatically.

After you see finish ejecting your films, close the film guide and then close the film feeder cover.

Note:

If the Start button light is flashing in red, a film jam may have happened. See Film jams for details.

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