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Placing Items (When Scanning from a Computer)

Learn how to place items on the platen or ADF (Auto Document Feeder) of your scanner or printer. Place items correctly according to the type of item to be scanned. Otherwise, items may not be scanned correctly.

Important

  • Do not place objects on the document cover. When you open the document cover, the objects may fall into your scanner or printer, resulting in malfunction.
  • Close the document cover when scanning.
  • Do not touch the operation panel buttons or LCD (Liquid Crystal Display) monitor when opening/closing the document cover. May result in unintended operation.

Placing Items (Platen)

Place items as described below to scan by detecting the item type or size automatically.

Important

  • When scanning by specifying the paper size in IJ Scan Utility or ScanGear (scanner driver), align an upper corner of the item with the corner at the arrow (alignment mark) of the platen.
  • Photos that have been cut to various shapes and items smaller than 1.2 inches (3 cm) square cannot be cropped accurately when scanning.
  • Reflective disc labels may not be scanned as expected.
For Photos, Postcards, Business Cards, or BD/DVD/CD For Magazines, Newspapers, or Documents
figure: Scan Photos, Postcards, Business Cards, or BD/DVD/CD

Placing a Single Item:

Place the item face-down on the platen, with 0.4 inch (1 cm) or more space between the edges (diagonally striped area) of the platen and the item. Portions placed on the diagonally striped area cannot be scanned.

figure: Placing a single item

Important

  • Large items (such as A4 size photos) that cannot be placed away from the edges/arrow (alignment mark) of the platen may be saved as PDF files. To save in a format other than PDF, scan by specifying the data format.

Placing Multiple Items:

Allow 0.4 inch (1 cm) or more space between the edges (diagonally striped area) of the platen and items, and between items. Portions placed on the diagonally striped area cannot be scanned.

figure: Placing multiple items

more than 0.4 inch (1 cm)

Note

  • You can place up to 12 items.
  • You can place up to four items when the Compress scanned images upon transfer checkbox is selected in the Settings dialog box of IJ Scan Utility.
  • Positions of slanted items (10 degrees or less) are corrected automatically.
figure: Scan Magazines, Newspapers, or Documents

Place the item face-down on the platen and align an upper corner of the item with the corner at the arrow (alignment mark) of the platen. Portions placed on the diagonally striped area cannot be scanned.

figure: Place and align the item at the arrow of the platen

Important

  • Refer to "Loading Originals" for your model from Home of the Online Manual for details on the portions in which items cannot be scanned.

Placing Documents (ADF (Auto Document Feeder))

Important

  • Do not leave thick items on the platen when scanning from the ADF. May result in paper jam.
  • Place and align documents of the same size when scanning two or more documents.
  • Refer to "Originals You Can Load" for your model from Home of the Online Manual for details on supported document sizes when scanning from the ADF.

  1. Open the document tray.

    figure: Open the document tray

  2. Place the documents on the ADF, then adjust the document guides to the width of the documents.

    Insert the documents face-up until a beep sounds.

    figure: Place the documents on the ADF