Scanning on a MFD

Scanning Your Document

Update: You can now scan to email, as well as via the shared file area below. See the Scan to email section below.

The scans are placed in a public space (you should not be scanning documents containing personal data), please delete them after you have copied them to your own filesystem. Scans older than 1 hour will automatically be deleted.

By default scans are in tiff format if the document scanned is black and white or PDF if colour.

Put your document in the feeder face up. (If A4)

Put other size documents on the glass and you will be asked to select a size.

Press "Send".

Select "One Touch".

Select "scans".

Select "File Format" if you want to change format.

Select format required.

Press "Start".

Retrieving Your Document.

On a Dice Machine using standard gnome:

Select the Places Menu from the top panel.

Select "Connect to Server".

Service Type is "Windows Share".

Server is "get.scans.inf.ed.ac.uk"

Folder is "pubscans".

This directory contains the scans, so you can save your scan to your own filespace (and subsequently delete it from the scans space).

On a Dice Machine using kde:

Open the File manager (Konqueror) on the Desktop.

Go to the Location menu, select "open location" on that menu, and type \\get.scans.inf.ed.ac.uk\pubscans

This directory contains the scans, so you can save your scan to your own filespace (and subsequently delete it from the scans space).

On an MDP Machine.

From an Explorer Window select Tools.

Select Map Network Drive.

Select drive letter.

Folder is \\get.scans.inf.ed.ac.uk\pubscans

Scan to email

An alternative to scanning to the shared area, is to send the scanned image/document to an email address. This doesn't overcome the privacy issues, as if you get the email address wrong, someone else could end up seeing the scan.

There is also a 10MB file limit for email messages, so large scans need to be broken up into multiple emails.

From the main screen press the "Send" button on the top edge of the screen.

Press the "E-mail" button near the middle of the screen.

Carefully enter your email address using the on screen keyboard and press "OK".

Select "File Format" if you want a specific file format, rather than letting the scanner choose.

Scan your document by pressing the big green "Start" button.

Answer/check the scan dialog box if prompted and press "Done".

The scan will be sent to the email address you specified.