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Setting Toggle Color Mode - Kodak Scanners

  1. Start your scan application.
  2. Configure black and white scanner settings:
    1. In your scanning application, set the color mode to black and white.
    2. Scan a black and white page as a test document.
    3. In the viewing area, inspect the scanned image and do the following on the Kofax VRS Image Quality tab, in the Clarity group:

    • Click Auto Brightness if you want Kofax VRS to automatically set the appropriate brightness for each image. Auto Brightness is selected by default.

    • Click Brightness & Contrastto set the values for Brightness, Contrast, and Gamma.

  3. Select the Toggle Color Mode feature:
    1. On the Kofax VRSImage Quality tab, in the Scanner group, click Driver Settings.

      The Advanced Properties window appears.

    2. Select the Toggle Color Mode panel.
    3. In the Preferences group, select the Use patch code detection to toggle color mode check box.
    4. In the Preferences group, select optional settings, as applicable:

      • Start in Black and White: Forces the output to start in black and white, even if color scanning is selected in the scan application. As a result, when the first patch code is detected, the mode switches to color. This setting eliminates the need to place a patch code sheet on top of the batch to signal that scanning should start in black and white.

      • Delete images from toggle patch sheets: Removes any images, including blanks, produced by the front (or back if duplex scanning is selected) of toggle patch sheets. Otherwise, toggle patch sheet images are retained in the batch. This setting is useful if the toggle patch sheets do not include pertinent content.

      • Enable patch confirmation tone: Causes an audible sound to occur when patch code sheets are processed. Use the scanner front panel to select a tone.

  4. In the Toggle Mode group, select one of the following:

    • Independent: Toggle applies only to the side of a sheet containing a patch code.

    • Both sides: Toggle applies to both sides of a sheet containing a patch code.

  5. In the Black and White settings group, the black and white Kofax VRS settings that you selected previously are listed automatically. Do the following:

    • Select a dpi value for scanning black and white documents. The default dpi is 300.

    • Select the "Use these settings when Color Detection enabled" check box to apply the values in this group (including the dpi) to any documents detected as black and white while the Color Detection feature is selected. Otherwise, while Color Detection is active, the dpi value set in the scan application is applied to both color/grayscale and black and white documents.

  6. Click OK.
  7. Insert toggle patch sheets into the batch to indicate where you want the scanner to switch color modes.
  8. In your scan application, set the color mode to grayscale or color and start scanning.

    • If you previously selected "Start in Black and White," scanning begins in black and white until the first patch code sheet is detected.

    • If you previously did not select "Start in Black and White," scanning begins in grayscale or color and switches to black and white when the first patch code is detected.