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Photocopier for Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP
version 2.31
(c) 2004, Nico Cuppen
INTRODUCTION
Got a scanner and a printer? Why not combine those two into a copy machine?
Photocopier helps you: just put a document on your scanner's glass, start
Photocopier and press its Copy button. After a few moments your printer
produces a copy of the document.
Photocopier takes the hassle out of scanning. No difficult settings to make,
very user friendly.
Best of all: Photocopier is free!!
REQUIREMENTS
. A Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP system.
. A scanner that complies with the Twain standard (most scanners do).
. A printer installed in Windows.
Photocopier derives the area to scan from the dimensions of the page,
defined for your default Windows printer. It's no use to scan areas
you can't bring on paper, is it? Therefore: you MUST have defined a
printer in Windows, and you only get copies with correct dimensions
if the correct page size is set for that printer.
INSTALLATION
Before installing this version first uninstall a previous version.
To install just run the downloaded EXE-file.
HOW TO...
There's little to be said about how to use this program, because it's so
very simple. If you ever used a photocopy machine (bet you have) you know
how to use Photocopier.
ABOUT PHOTOCOPIER PRO
You should know that there is also a shareware version of Photocopier,
called Photocopier Pro.
Photocopier Pro offers these features over the basic version:
. It can associate itself with your scanner's Copy button, so you can sit
at your scanner and make copies just by pressing that button.
. You can get a preview of the scanned image before printing starts. From
the preview window you can manipulate (invert, mirror) the scanned image.
. Greater control over scan resolution.
. Auto crop function, to remove superfluous parts of the scanned image.
. You can select the imaging device to use. Convenient when you have both
a scanner and a video camera attached to your system.
. You can instruct Photocopier to pause before printing starts. Convenient
when you have scanner and printer attached to your system via a switch
box. Or when you want to send the copy to your fax printer driver!
Go to www.nicocuppen.com for more info on Photocopier Pro.
ABOUT SCAN SPEED AND MEMORY CONSUMPTION
You can scan in black and white, in gray scales or in color. Scanning in
black and white is fastest and produces the smallest internal image files.
Scanning in color is slow and produces large image files. Therefore
Photocopier reduces the scanning resolution when you choose to scan in gray
scales or color, to cut scanning time and memory needs. Resulting copies,
however, will be somewhat less sharp.
You can cut down the size of the scanned document to 70 % of its original
width and height. The resulting printed image will occupy about half the
space of the original.
BRIGHTNESS
You can adjust brightness in 7 steps. However, for some scanners this has no
effect, because these scanners automatically adjust brightness.
NUMBER OF COPIES
You can print any number (between 1 and 99) of the scanned image.
USE OF AUTOMATIC DOCUMENT FEEDER
If you enabled your scanner's Automatic Document Feeder (ADF), Photocopier
will automatically make use of it. All documents in the ADF will be scanned
and printed.
IMAGE RATIO
Most printers can't print a small edge of the full page. I suppose their
paper transport mechanism is in the way.
Photocopier only scans that part of the page that your printer can print.
This has the advantage that the image ratio of the print will be equal
to that of the original, but the disadvantage is that you'll lose the
small edge.
Funny thing is, real photocopy machines normally don't have this short-
coming. They do have a paper transport mechanism I suppose, but their
developers managed to overcome this problem. If anyone knows how they've
done that, while printer manufacturers haven't, please let me know.
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Question:
Photocopier tries to scan from my digital camera! How can I point it to my
scanner?
Answer:
Photopier uses the default imaging device on your system. The default device
is the device last selected in the TWAIN "Select Source" dialog box.
Photocopier doesn't show that box, because I wanted to make the program as
easy to use as possible for the average scanner user (who will have only one
imaging device). What you could do is select the device, that you want to use
in Photocopier, by starting another application that lets you select it, like
Paint Shop Pro or Adobe Photo Shop. Just select it and then quit that
application. That's enough.
Photocopier Pro, the shareware version of Photocopier, has a button in its
Settings window that lets you switch to another imaging device.
Question:
I have a scanner and a printer both connected to the parallel post, using a
switch box. How can I let Photocopier pause so that I can switch from scanner
to printer?
Answer:
Before starting Photocopier to scan the document, go to your printer's icon,
right click on it and toggle on "Pause Printing". Create an icon for the
printer on your desktop to make this easier, but it can also be reached from
Start/Settings/Printers. Once the printer is paused, let Photocopier scan the
document. After the document is scanned, right click the printer icon and
toggle off the "Pause Printing" and your printer will print the copy.
Photocopier Pro, the shareware version of Photocopier, can be instructed to
pause after scanning and before printing starts.
Question:
When I copy a small document or photograph Photocopier print all black on the
rest of the page. Why?
Answer:
Photocopier is like a real photocopy machine: it copies a full page. And
since the inner side of your scanner's cover is black it copies this black
too. A simple remedy: put a white sheet of paper over the photograh you scan.
Photocopier Pro, the shareware version of Photocopier, has an "auto crop"
function that automatically crops the black edges.
Question:
Can I use Photocopier to fax?
Answer:
Yes, but of course you need to have a fax printer driver installed. Make that
your default printer in Windows: go to Settings, Printers, right click the
fax printer driver, and make sure Set as default is checked. Then start
Photocopier and press the Copy button. The output will be send to the fax
printer driver.
By the way: FAX MACHINE, another shareware application from the same author,
makes faxing a breeze! More info on http://www.nicocuppen.com.
IN CASE OF PROBLEMS
Still not getting the copy you expected? No copy at all?
Before asking me for help read this:
You may have noticed that Photocopier instructs the scanner driver
software to NOT show the driver's user interface, which is what you
normally see when scanning. Photocopier instructs the driver to bypass
it because this is what makes scanning often such a daunting task: all
those difficult settings to choose from.
However, not all scanner drivers like it to be instructed like this,
although it's perfectly legal in TWAIN terms, and sometimes they react
in strange ways. Some deliver black scans, some end in a Windows General
Protection Fault, and some don't scan at all. Don't blame me for this,
blame the scanner driver developer for not following the TWAIN standard.
Anyhow:
========================================================================
-- YOU SHOULD HAVE THE MOST RECENT DRIVER SOFTWARE FOR YOUR SCANNER!! --
========================================================================
Check on the site of your scanners manufacturer for new version of the
drivers. Look for TWAIN-compatible drivers.
Still having problems?
You can help me diagnose the problem by making a log file of Photocopier's
actions and settings and mailing that to me, together with a description of
what went wrong.
This is how you make the log file:
- Right click on the Photocopier shortcut on your desktop.
- Choose Properties from the pop up menu.
- Choose the Shortcut tab.
- In the edit box labeled Target you'll see the path to Photocopier,
ending with ...\COPIER.EXE". Add a space and the word LOG after the
double quote. Press OK.
- Now start Photocopier again and make a photocopy.
- Shut down Photocopier and look in the root directory of drive C: for a
file called PHOTOCOPIER.LOG. That's the one.
And this is the e-mail address to send it to: info@nicocuppen.com. Don't
forget to add a description of what goes wrong!
GETTING NEGATIVE COPIES FROM YOUR SCANNER
Some TWAIN-accessed scanners (in fact: drivers) produce "negative" or
"inverted" images: dark pixels on the original are bright on the
copy and bright parts in the original show up dark on the copy. In
color mode some colors seem to be missing. In this case, you have
to edit the file WIN.INI in your Windows folder.
Search for the section [Twain] or [TWAIN] and add one or more of these
lines:
invertBW = 1
invertGray = 1
invertColor = 1
Insert the first line if you get negative copies when scanning in black
and white.
Insert the second line if you get negative copies when scanning in gray
scales.
Insert the third line if you get negative copies when scanning in color.
Insert any combination as appropriate.
After insertion the WIN.INI section COULD look like this:
[Twain]
invertBW = 1
insertRGB = 1
This modification only effects Photocopier, not other TWAIN-enabled
software.
AND THEN...
Have fun with this program. If you have a question, suggestion or bug to
report: send mail to info@nicocuppen.com.
Check http://www.nicocuppen.com for new versions of Photocopier and for
other exciting products.