Instruction manual

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5. Scanning Procedures
5.1. Scanning Electrophoresis Gels
1. Insert the Leak-Free Glass Holder with the
electrophoresis gel into the transparency bay of
the scanner. Make sure that nothing is on the
scanner glass surface.
2. Launch ScanWizard Bio either as a stand-alone by clicking on the program icon,
or by using the File-Import or File-Acquire command from your image-editing
program.
3. Go to the Preview window and choose positive Film from the Scan Material
menu.
4. Click the Overview button to perform a preliminary scan of your original.
5. Select the Scan Frame tool from the Toolbar in the Preview window, and choose
the area to be scanned by dragging a rectangle around it. You will see a flashing
frame (marquee) around the selected area.
6. Click the Prescan button to display a detailed image area selected via the Scan
Frame tool. A thumbnail of the image appears in the Scan Job Queue window as
well.
7. Specify your scanning requirements in the Settings window.
a) Select a desired image type.
b) Select a desired resolution.
c) Adjust the scan frame settings if necessary.
8. Adjust image quality if necessary, using the Advanced Image Correction (AIC)
tools.
9. Click the Scan (or “Scan to”) button in the Preview window to start scanning.
• If ScanWizard Bio was launched from an application program, the image is then
delivered to your application, where the image can be saved, printed, or edited.
• If ScanWizard Bio was launched in stand-alone mode, you will be prompted to
specify the file attributes for the scanned image after the Scan or Scan to button is