Setting Buttons-Basic

There are four setting buttons in the left of the User Interface: Original Switch, Original Type Selection, Destination and Work-mode Switch.

Original Switch
MiraScan 4.0 can scan the images of both Reflective and Transparency. Click the button to switch between the two kinds of origianls.

Original Type Switch
Pressing down the button, a list of selections will appear.
a. If Reflective Original is selected, the following five selections appears.

Auto
If this option is selected, MiraScan will detect the type of an image to be scanned automatically and scan it in the proper type.

Photo
To select the option is to scan an image with the following properties: Color, High Speed, No Descreen and the original size(e.g. 100% of scaling).

Magazine
Selecting the option is scanning an image in the following settings: Color, High Speed, 175lpi (descreen) and 100% of original size.

Newsprint
To select this option is to scan an image in the following settings: Color, High Speed, 85lpi (descreen) and 100% of original size.

Text
To choose this option is to scan an image in the following settings: Line Art, High Speed, None descreen and 100% of original size.

b. If Transparent Original was selected, the list contains two selections.

Transparecy
If the item is selected, MiraScan will scan transparent films with the following settings: Color, High Speed, No Descreen and 100% of Original size.

Negative Film
If the item is selected, MiraScan will scan negative films with the following settings: Color, High Speed, No Descreen and 100% of Original size.

Destionation

When MiraScan is launched by a twain compliant application, the application will be the only destination to which the scanned image is transferred. The button will appear as if PhotoShop is the application.

When MiraScan is in stand-alone running mode, all the default supported application that MiraScan can get from register will list out by pressing down the button. You can select an application as the destination,otherwise MiraScan will take the "Scan to File" as the destination.

The scanned image will be transfered to the selected application. The default supported Destionations are: File, PhotoShop, Word,Printer(all printer installed in the system), Web image (IE5.0/4.0/3.x and Netscape), PhotoExpress, Imaging and FineReader. You cannot delete either of these applications or add other applications to the destination, however they will keep consistent with those in the Advance Work Mode. If they are deleted or added in the Advance Work Mode, the destination selections will also be changed when switching to Basic Mode.

There are also seven default-supported file formats: BMP, GIF, TIF, PCX, JPG, TGA and PNG.

Work-mode Switch

Click this button to switch to the Advanced work mode and all the settings in the Basic Mode will retain except that the preview image is reset to original size.

To learn more about MiraScan in Basic Work Mode, click on one of the following links below: