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PrecisionScan Pro
User’s Guide
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Scanning pictures
Book Contents Index
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Suggestions for choosing output type
Type of original
Output Type
Color
photograph
Color
drawing
Black and white
photograph
Black and white
drawing
True Color
millions of colors (24-bit color)
best color image for printing one-color tint image for printing
Grayscale
8-bit (256 shades of gray)
grayscale image for printing or displaying on a monitor
Black & White
1-bit black and
white
(only black
and white)
Bitmap (raster)
black and white raster image for printing or displaying on a monitor; not
appropriate for resizing in another program
Scalable (vector
) scalable black and white vector image for resizing in another program
256 Color
8-bit color
(256 shades of
color)
Web Palette
best color for displaying images on
a Web page
one-color tint image for displaying on
a Web page
System Palette
best color for displaying wallpaper,
multiple images, or a presentation
on a monitor
one-color tint image for displaying a
presentation on a monitor
Optimized Palette
best for selecting the colors closest
to those in the image
Spot Color
not
recommended
eliminates small
variations in a
solid color block
not recommended