User guide
Chapter 3: How to Scan Scanning with the Harmony Scan Module
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A portion of the entire scanned image appears in this window. Scroll to the animator’s label using the scroll
bars.
The entire drawing appears in Frame Preview panel.
When the scan is complete, the Drawing List tags the drawing as Scanned and highlights the next drawing.
If an Optical Registration Error occurs, an error dialog box appears.
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Make sure that you place the drawing correctly in the ADF and that there are no tears or rips on the
drawing’s registration holes. You can try feeding and scanning the drawing again by clicking the Retry
button.
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The size of the paper you used may not be close enough to a standard 12 field paper size. The Scan
module looks for the centre peg hole at a specific distance from the leading edge of the paper (give or
take an inch).
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To correct this error, you must scan these drawing on a flatbed scanner instead of using an ADF
scanner.
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To continue scanning and fix the drawing later, press the Skip Drawing button. The scanner marks the
drawing as Not Scanned and the autofeed takes the next drawing.
When the scanner captures the last drawing in the Drawing List, the Scan and Preview buttons become active
again.
10. If you want to re-scan a drawing, simply select the cell name from the Drawing List panel and click Scan.
Remember to change the feeding mode you selected before clicking the Scan button. If you are scanning
one drawing, select Autofeed (One) from the Mode drop-down list.
If you are re-scanning more than one drawing, select Edit > Drawing List, type the names of the drawings
you want to re-scan, and click OK.
If a paper jam occurs in the automatic document feeder (with the compatible scanners) you can use the Eject
Page command to eject the jammed page. Select Scanner > Eject Page. If the option is not compatible with your
scanner, the command will be greyed out.
Scanning by Placing the Drawings Manually
You can scan a drawing by placing it on the scanner registration pegs yourself. If the drawings you want to scan are
too large to fit in the scanner’s automatic document feeder, or do not feed properly due to rips, wrinkles, or folds in
the drawing, you can manually peg the drawings.
To do this, you must set the scanner mode to Pegged or Pegged (Many).
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Pegged: Scans the drawing from the flatbed. You must click Scan again each time you change the drawing
on the scanner.
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Pegged (Many): Automatically scans the drawing fro the flatbed every five to ten seconds (depending on
the time required to process the drawings).
However, this mode does not scan each drawing automatically when you click the Preview button.
To scan by manually pegging drawings:
1. Select one of the following:
Pegged: To place the drawing on the scanner’s pegs and click Scan for each drawing.
Pegged (Many): To place the drawings on the scanner’s pegs yourself, but you want the scanner to
automatically scan whatever is on the scanner bed every five to ten seconds.
2. Check the Drawing List to see which drawing you are scanning next. It will appear highlighted.
You can select the drawing you want to scan by pointing to the desired drawing in the Drawing List, and
clicking Scan.
You can reverse the order of the Drawing List by selecting Edit > Reverse List Order.
The Drawing List sorts the cell names from your exposure sheet alphanumerically. Therefore, you should keep
this in mind when assigning names to these cells, otherwise, you may need to resort your drawings so that the
Scan module can assign them in the correct order.
3. Lift the scanner’s cover, and place the paper drawing face down on the scanner glass with the peg holes of the
drawing placed on the registration pegs bar placed on the scanner. This should be the paper drawing that
corresponds to the drawing highlighted in the Drawing List.
You can place both 12 field and 16 field paper on the same registration pegs on the scanner. The Field Size
drop-down menu in the scanner’s setup options defines the size of paper being scanned. Refer to the
Setting up
the Scanner topic to learn more about this.