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Calibrating and Cleaning
The scanner needs to be calibrated as part of your monthly maintenance of the scanner. You calibrated the scanner 
on installation of the software, but the scanner requires calibration to maintain image quality. If the scanner is used 
daily you may need to calibrate the scanner more often.
If calibration does not resolve any image quality issues you are seeing, you may need to clean the scanner.
1. Click on the Calibrate or Clean button...

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Hardware Properties and Interface Behavior
You can use the scanner’s properties page to keep track of scanner maintenance, change some of the hardware 
options, configure the scanner interface behavior, and adjust application options that may be available for your 
scanner.
To open the scanner hardware properties page:
•Windows 7—from the Windows Control Panel, open Hardware and Sound and then Devices and Printers. 
Right-click on the scanner and then select Scan...

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Paper Pickup Options
The Paper pickup options allow you to choose how the scanner responds when a page is inserted into the scanner.
•Delay—this is the amount of time between when the paper sensor is engaged and the rollers start to feed the 
page into the scanner. When the TWAIN interface is open, or when automatic scanning is disabled, the page is 
pre-fed and then the scanner waits until you click Scan in the interface before it will continue to feed and scan...

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Driver Settings
The options in this panel are for configuring how the scanner interface will behave in some scenarios. Only advanced 
users should modify any of the options in this section. Options that are not available for your scanner will be grayed 
out and disabled.
General
•Lock settings—this option prevents the user from making changes to the options in the scanner interface. 
When the interface opens, only the scanning Presets will be available for a user...

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scan without opening this scanner interface. The next time this interface opens, the last used settings will 
match the application settings that were used to scan. Select this option to have the settings reset to the last 
ones used when this interface was open.
WIA Driver
•Use default WIA UI—select this option to display the Microsoft WIA interface instead...

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7Maintenance
This chapter includes:
•Calibrating Your Scanner on page 168
•Cleaning Your Scanner on page 171
•Troubleshooting on page 175
•Uninstalling Your Scanner on page 177
•Xerox Travel Scanner 150 Specifications on page 178
•Xerox Travel Scanner 150 Parts List on page 179
This section contains information about calibrating, cleaning, troubleshooting, uninstalling, scanner specifications 
and spare parts. 

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Calibrating Your Scanner
The scanner needs to be calibrated as part of your monthly maintenance of the scanner. You calibrated the scanner 
on installation of the software, but the scanner requires calibration to maintain image quality. If the scanner is used 
daily you may need to calibrate the scanner more often.
If your scanned images have black or colored vertical lines this may be a sign that you need to perform a calibration. 
If calibrating the scanner...

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4. Click on the Device Settings tab.
5. Click on the Calibrate button to start the calibration utility.
6. Place the calibration page, with the black bar face  d ow n, with the arrows pointing into the scanner. 

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calibration.
8. When calibration is complete the scanner will clear the calibration page out of the scanner. Remove the 
calibration page when the utility prompts you to. Do not forcefully pull the page out of the scanner, the 
scanner will release the page when it has fully exited out of the scanner.
Calibrating from the Windows Control Panel:
If you...