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- Photocopier for Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP
- version 2.27
- (c) 2003, Nico Cuppen
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- 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.
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- Photocopier takes the hassle out of scanning. No difficult settings to make,
- very user friendly.
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- Best of all: Photocopier is free!!
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- REQUIREMENTS
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- . 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.
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- INSTALLATION
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- Before installing this version first uninstall a previous version.
- To install just run the downloaded EXE-file.
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- HOW TO...
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- 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.
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- ABOUT PHOTOCOPIER PRO
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- 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!
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- Go to www.nicocuppen.com for more info on Photocopier Pro.
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- ABOUT SCAN SPEED AND MEMORY CONSUMPTION
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- BRIGHTNESS
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- You can adjust brightness in 7 steps. However, for some scanners this has no
- effect, because these scanners automatically adjust brightness.
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- NUMBER OF COPIES
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- You can print any number (between 1 and 99) of the scanned image.
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- USE OF AUTOMATIC DOCUMENT FEEDER
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- 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.
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- IMAGE RATIO
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
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- Question:
- Photocopier tries to scan from my digital camera! How can I point it to my
- scanner?
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- 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?
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- 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.
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- Question:
- When I copy a small document or photograph Photocopier print all black on the
- rest of the page. Why?
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- 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?
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- 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.
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- IN CASE OF PROBLEMS
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- Still not getting the copy you expected? No copy at all?
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- Before asking me for help read this:
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- 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.
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- Anyhow:
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- ========================================================================
- -- YOU SHOULD HAVE THE MOST RECENT DRIVER SOFTWARE FOR YOUR SCANNER!! --
- ========================================================================
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- Check on the site of your scanners manufacturer for new version of the
- drivers. Look for TWAIN-compatible drivers.
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- Still having problems?
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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!
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- GETTING NEGATIVE COPIES FROM YOUR SCANNER
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- 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.
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- Search for the section [Twain] or [TWAIN] and add one or more of these
- lines:
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- invertBW = 1
- invertGray = 1
- invertColor = 1
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- 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.
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- Insert any combination as appropriate.
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- After insertion the WIN.INI section COULD look like this:
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- [Twain]
- invertBW = 1
- insertRGB = 1
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- This modification only effects Photocopier, not other TWAIN-enabled
- software.
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- AND THEN...
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- Have fun with this program. If you have a question, suggestion or bug to
- report: send mail to info@nicocuppen.com.
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- Check http://www.nicocuppen.com for new versions of Photocopier and for
- other exciting products.
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