Scanning Documents with Different Widths

ATTENTION

When you scan a mixed batch with different widths, some of the narrower documents may be skewed or not fed into the ADF.

In that case, separate the documents by their widths, and scan them in different batches.

HINT

For details about document requirements for scanning a mixed batch of documents, refer to Conditions for Mixed Batch Scanning.

  1. Align the top of the documents.
    Aligning the Documents
  2. Place the documents at the center of the ADF paper chute (feeder), and adjust the side guides to the widest document in the batch.
    ATTENTION

    Load all documents above the center of the pick roller. If documents are loaded outside of the pick roller width, they may be fed skewed or not fed into the ADF.

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  3. Adjust the stacker to fit the longest document.

    For details, refer to Setting Up the Stacker.

  4. In the scanner driver, configure the scan settings to detect the paper size automatically.

    For details, refer to the help for the scanner driver.

  5. Scan documents with the image scanning application.

    For details, refer to the help for the image scanning application.