304 : Scanners


Unit 5 PDA 304 : prepared by Ben Matthews : October 23 and 25, 2000 \| February 27, March 1, 2001 : NCHS room 161
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Scanners are available in all buildings - check the IMC or a computer lab. Most are extremely easy to use!	Scanners Types \| Tools \| Tips & Tricks Types As with digital cameras, and most other technologies for that matter, there are several different scanners on the market. They are becoming more and more affordable - in fact you can get many for much less than $100. Some scanners are better than others, some are larger, some do text better than others, etc. The scanners in our buildings are Hewlett-Packard and are easy to use one-touch scanners. In other words, you simply put the image on the glass, hit the button and it scans it for you - you just have to tell it what you want it to scan, where you want it to go, and then accept and save it when it is finished. return to top Tools The scanner itself should be all you need to concern yourself with, though there are some other pieces/parts it would be helpful to know about. the glass the "button" the cords the software Everything should be hooked up and ready to go in the IMCs and computer labs. return to top Tips & Tricks get as good a quality original as possible - the better the original quality, the better the scan quality you can scan color, b/w and text, but you need to choose to scan it as "image" or "image and text" - scroll down through your options to choose the one that best fits your original photographs logos copyright issues text issues saving as a file cleaning it up return to top

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Unit 5 PDA 304 : prepared by Ben Matthews : October 23 and 25, 2000 \| February 27, March 1, 2001 : NCHS room 161
go to >>>	graphicsbasics \| digitalcameras \| scanners \| wordart \| practice \| eval. \| home
Scanners are available in all buildings - check the IMC or a computer lab. Most are extremely easy to use!	Scanners Types \| Tools \| Tips & Tricks Types As with digital cameras, and most other technologies for that matter, there are several different scanners on the market. They are becoming more and more affordable - in fact you can get many for much less than $100. Some scanners are better than others, some are larger, some do text better than others, etc. The scanners in our buildings are Hewlett-Packard and are easy to use one-touch scanners. In other words, you simply put the image on the glass, hit the button and it scans it for you - you just have to tell it what you want it to scan, where you want it to go, and then accept and save it when it is finished. return to top Tools The scanner itself should be all you need to concern yourself with, though there are some other pieces/parts it would be helpful to know about. the glass the "button" the cords the software Everything should be hooked up and ready to go in the IMCs and computer labs. return to top Tips & Tricks get as good a quality original as possible - the better the original quality, the better the scan quality you can scan color, b/w and text, but you need to choose to scan it as "image" or "image and text" - scroll down through your options to choose the one that best fits your original photographs logos copyright issues text issues saving as a file cleaning it up return to top

graphicsbasics \| digitalcameras \| scanners \| wordart \| practice \| evaluation \| home