Lexmark scanning

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Terry

My sister and I are trying to scan homework so she can send it to me
to check. She has a Lexmark printer. I am not sure of the model

Something odd is happening with the scan settings. She loads the
Lexmark software and I have told her to use MSPaint and do the scan as
a Black and White photo. She is on dialup so size is the big factor.
The scans only have to be legible.

When she tells the software to scan, what happens is, it only scans
the top few lines of the page. I assume that some kind of automatic
cropping is going on.

If she loads the image in the preview pane on the left side of the
screen then scan will come out right, but if she skips that step she
only gets the top few lines of the page.

Anyone have this trouble?

Thanks for you time
 
Terry said:
My sister and I are trying to scan homework so she can send it to me
to check. She has a Lexmark printer. I am not sure of the model

Something odd is happening with the scan settings. She loads the
Lexmark software and I have told her to use MSPaint and do the scan as
a Black and White photo. She is on dialup so size is the big factor.
The scans only have to be legible.

When she tells the software to scan, what happens is, it only scans
the top few lines of the page. I assume that some kind of automatic
cropping is going on.

If she loads the image in the preview pane on the left side of the
screen then scan will come out right, but if she skips that step she
only gets the top few lines of the page.

Anyone have this trouble?

Thanks for you time
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I don't know about your specific problem without knowing more.
Obviously, your scanner works fine. The cropping is probably happening
because you have auto-crop enabled on the scanner and it only sees
those first lines and then perceives a break that it interprets as the
edge of the scan. Continue as you are doing or turn off the auto-crop
check box or however it's shown.

I suggest you both download and install the free viewer called
Irfanview and the plug-ins. You can scan from Irfanview and save your
scan in any compression percentage. A huge page can be compressed to
something easily sent by dial-up. It will still look plenty good at
70% compression. Even 50% could work for you.
 
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