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01-06-2020 04:49 PM
I am using my old 7520 as a stand alone scanner, I scan everything directly to a USB Drive, the scanner is not hooked up to a computer or the internet, either by Cable or wireless. The Problem I am having is this: In the past, if I was scanning a photo to a 600 DPI JPEG, via the touchpad on the unit, it would scan just the image and give me a full size scan. At some point in the recent past, not sure why, it now scans the entire flatbed, producing an image like the attached one below (Click Image to see the full size, the blank portion does not show up against the white background here). I can crop it down to eliminate the blank space, but I think this produces a less desirable image to work with and is time consuming. How can I get it to go back to just scanning the image and not the whole flatbed?
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