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On Screen Display Menus
Main Menu
Sub Menu
Settings
The Projector has multilingual On Screen Display menus 
that allow you to make image adjustments and change a 
variety of settings. The projector will automatically detect 
the source. 
How to operate 
1.  To open the OSD menu, press “Menu” on the Remote Control or 
Control Panel.
2. When OSD is displayed, use    keys to select any item in the 
main menu. After selecting the desired main menu item, press  to 
enter sub menu for feature setting.
3. Use    keys to select the desired item and adjust the settings by 
    key.  
4. Select the next item to be adjusted in the sub menu and adjust as 
described above.   
5. Press “Back” on the Remote Control or Control Panel, the screen will 
return to the main menu.
6.  To exit OSD, press “Menu” on the Remote Control or Control Panel 
again. The OSD menu will close and the projector will automatically 
save the new settings.
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Color
(Computer / Video 
Mode)
Display Mode
There are many factory presets optimized for various types of images. 
  Bright : For brightness optimization.
  PC : For computer or notebook.
  Video : For playing video in a bright environment.
 Theater : For Home Theatre usage in a dark room.
  sRGB : For true-color optimization.
 User : Memorize user’s settings.
Brightness
Adjust the brightness of the image.
 Press the  to darken image.
 Press the  to lighten the image.
Contrast
The contrast controls the degree of difference between the lightest  
and darkest parts of the picture. Adjusting the contrast changes  the 
amount of black and white in the image.
  Press the  to decrease the contrast.
 Press the  to increase the contrast.
Color Temperature
Adjust the color temperature. At higher temperature, the screen  
looks colder; at lower temperature, the screen looks warmer. 
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Color
(Computer / Video 
Mode)
White Segment
Use the white Segment control to set the white peaking level of DMD chip. 0 stands for minimal segment, and 10 stands for maximum seg-ment.  If you prefer a stronger image, adjust towards the maximum setting.  For a smooth and more natural image, adjust towards the minimum setting.
Degamma
Effects the represent of dark scenery.  With greater gamma value, dark scenery will look brighter.
Color R
Adjusts the red color. 
Color G
Adjusts the green color. 
Color B
Adjusts the blue color.
Saturation 
Adjusts a video image from black and white to fully saturated color.
Press the  to decrease the amount of color in the image.
Press the  to increase the amount of color in the image.
Tint 
Adjusts the color balance of red and green.
Press the  to increase the amount of green in the image.
Press the  to increase the amount of red  in the image.
 “Saturation” and “Tint” functions are not supported under computer mode or DVI mode.
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Image
(Computer / Video 
Mode)
Keystone
Adjust image distortion caused by tilting projection. (±16 degrees)
Aspect Ratio
Use this function to choose your desired aspect ratio.
Auto : Keep the image with original width-higth ratio and maxi-
mize the image to fit native horizontal or vertical pixels.
16:9 : The input source will be scaled to fit the width of the screen 
and narrowed the height to make the displayed image be-
comes 16:9 ratio.
4:3 : The input source will be scaled to fit the projection screen and 
becomes 4:3 ratio.
Projection
   Front-Desktop
    The factory default setting.
   Front-Ceiling
    When you select this function, the projector turns the im-
age upside down for ceiling-mounted projection.
    Rear-Desktop
    When you select this function, the projector reverses the 
image  so you can project behind a translucent screen.
   Rear-Ceiling 
    When you select this function, the projector reverses and 
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Image
(Computer / Video 
Mode)
 “H. Position”, “V. Position”, “Frequency” and “ Tracking” func-tions are not supported under DVI and Video mode.
 “Sharpness” func-tions is not supported 
under DVI and Com-puter mode.
turns the image upside down at same time. You can project 
from behind a translucent screen with ceiling mounted 
projection.
H. Position (Horizontal Position)
 Press the  to move the image left.
 Press the  to move the image right.
V. Position (Vertical Position)
 Press the  to move the image down.
 Press the  to move the image up.
Frequency
“Frequency” changes the display data frequency to match the fre-
quency of your computer’s graphic card. If you experience a vertical 
flickering bar, use this function to make an adjustment.
Tracking
“Tracking” synchronizes the signal timing of the display with the 
graphic card. If you experience an unstable or flickering image, use 
this function to correct it.
Sharpness 
Adjusts the sharpness of the image.
 Press the  to decrease the sharpness.
Press the  to increase the sharpness.
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ECO Mode
Choose “On” to dim the projector lamp which will lower power 
consumption, extend the lamp life and reduce noise. Choose ”Off” 
to return normal mode.
Auto Shutdown (Minutes)
The projector will auto shutdown while there is no signal input 
after the setting time.
Source Lock
When source lock is turned off, the projector will search for other 
signals if the current input signal is lost. When source lock is 
turned on, it will “Lock” the current source channel before you 
press “Source” button on remote control for next channel.
Menu Location
Choose the Menu location on the display screen. 
Startup Screen
Use this function to select your desired startup screen. If you  
change the setting from one to another, when you exit the OSD 
menu, the new setting will take effect.
 Acer : The default startup screen of Acer projector.
 User : The user customized startup screen, which is down 
loaded from PC to projector via the USB cable and Acer 
eOpening Management utility  (refer to the description of 
below section).
Management 
(Computer / Video 
Mode)
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Acer eOpening Management is a PC utility  
for user to change the default startup screen 
of Acer projector to their desired image. You 
can install Acer eOpening Management from 
the bundled CD. Connect the projector to 
your PC with the bundled USB cable then 
execute Acer eOpening Management utility to 
download your desired image from your PC 
to projector. Before the download starts, the 
projector must enter “Download Mode” first. 
Please follow the instruction below to enter 
“Download Mode”.
1.  If the projector was turned on, press power button twice to turn 
off the projector.
2.  Unplug the AC power cord from the projector.
3.   Press and hold “Menu” and “ “ buttons simultaneously then 
plug the AC power cord to the projector.
4.   When Temp and Lamp LEDs are turned light, release both but-
tons, projector enters download mode.
5.   Please make sure the USB cable has been connected to the pro-
jector from your PC.
Lamp Hour Elapse
Displays the lamp’s elapsed operating time (in hours).
Lamp Reminding
 Choose this function to show or to hide warning message when 
the changing lamp message is displayed.  The message will show 
up 30 hours before end of life.
Management 
(Computer / Video 
Mode)
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Management 
(Computer / Video 
Mode)
Lamp Hour Reset
 Press the  button after choosing “Yes ”to turn the lamp hour counter to 0 hours.
Security
Press  to start “Security” setting. If the “Security” function is 
enabled, you must enter “Administrator Password” first before 
Security setting.
Security
This projector provides an excellent security function 
for the administrator to manage the usage of the projec-
tor.
Select “On” to enable the security function. User have 
to enter password depending on the “Security Mode” 
defined while setting “User Password”. Please refer 
to “User Password” section for details.
Select “Off” then user can switch on the projector 
without password request.
 
  Once the security function is enabled, the projector 
will request user to enter password when switch on 
the projector. Both “User Password” and “Adminis-
trator Password” can be accepted for this dialogue.
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Management 
(Computer / Video 
Mode)
Timeout(Min.)
Once “Security” is set to “On”, administrator can set 
timeout function.
Press  or  to select timeout duration.
The range is from 10 minutes to 990 minutes.
When time is up, the projector will request user to 
enter password again.
The factory default setting of “Timeout(Min.)” is 
“Off”.
User Password
Press  to set up or change “User Password”.
  
Use  ,  ,  or  to select the character and press “MENU” to confirm.
Press  to delete character after the selected charac-ter confirmed.
Press “MENU” to complete the setting of password. 
Input password again at “Confirm Password”.
The password is allowed for 4~8 characters.
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Management 
(Computer / Video 
Mode)
 
The projector provide two options of “Security Mode”.
Select “Request password only after plugging power 
cord”, the project will request user to input password 
only for the first time plugging on power cord of the 
projector.
Select “Always request password while projector 
turns on”, user have to input password every time 
when switching on the projector.
Administrator Password
“Administrator Password” can be accepted by both 
“Enter Administrator Password” and “Enter Password” 
dialogues.
Press  to change “Administrator Password”.
The factory default of “Administrator Password” is 
“1234”.
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