Sharp MX-1800N (serv.man42) User Manual / Operation Manual ▷ View online
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MX-1800N
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
ABOUT THIS MANUAL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
• MANUALS PROVIDED WITH THE MACHINE . . . 4
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BEFORE USING THE MACHINE AS A
NETWORK SCANNER
NETWORK SCANNER
NETWORK SCANNER FUNCTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
PREPARATIONS FOR USE AS A NETWORK
SCANNER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
SCANNER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
• MAKE SURE THE MAIN POWER SWITCH IS
IN THE "ON" POSITION. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
• CHECKING THE DATE AND TIME . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
• STORING SENDER INFORMATION . . . . . . . . . . . 7
• SETTINGS REQUIRED IN THE WEB PAGE. . . . . 7
• STORING DESTINATION ADDRESSES FOR
EACH SCAN MODE IN THE ADDRESS BOOK. . . 8
• STORING A DESTINATION FOR SCAN TO
DESKTOP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
BASE SCREEN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
• BASE SCREENS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
• ADDRESS BOOK SCREEN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
• CHANGING THE DISPLAY OF ONE-TOUCH
KEYS IN THE ADDRESS BOOK SCREEN . . . . . 15
SCANNING AND TRANSMISSION SEQUENCE. . . . 16
ORIGINAL SIZES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
• ORIGINAL SIZES THAT CAN BE
TRANSMITTED . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
• THE SIZE OF THE PLACED ORIGINAL . . . . . . . 18
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ENTERING DESTINATIONS
SPECIFYING DESTINATIONS IN THE ADDRESS
BOOK . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
BOOK . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
• CALLING UP A DESTINATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
• CHECKING AND DELETING THE SELECTED
DESTINATIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
USING A SEARCH NUMBER TO SPECIFY A
DESTINATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
DESTINATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
ENTER THE ADDRESS MANUALLY . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
CALLING UP A DESTINATION FROM A
GLOBAL ADDRESS BOOK. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
GLOBAL ADDRESS BOOK. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
USING THE RESEND FUNCTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
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BASIC PROCEDURE FOR
TRANSMISSION IN SCAN MODE
TRANSMISSION IN SCAN MODE
SCANNING TO E-MAIL, FTP, DESKTOP, AND
NETWORK FOLDER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
NETWORK FOLDER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
CHANGING THE EXPOSURE AND EXPOSURE
MODE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
MODE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
CHANGING THE RESOLUTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
AUTOMATICALLY SCANNING BOTH SIDES OF
AN ORIGINAL (2-Sided Original) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
AN ORIGINAL (2-Sided Original) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
SPECIFYING THE ORIGINAL SCAN SIZE AND
SEND SIZE (Enlarge/Reduce). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
SEND SIZE (Enlarge/Reduce). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
• SPECIFYING THE SCAN SIZE OF THE
ORIGINAL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
• SPECIFYING THE SEND SIZE OF THE
ORIGINAL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
CHANGING THE COLOUR MODE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
CHANGING THE FILE FORMAT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
CHANGING THE SUBJECT, FILE NAME,
REPLY-TO, AND MESSAGE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
REPLY-TO, AND MESSAGE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
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BASIC PROCEDURE FOR
SCANNING IN USB MEMORY MODE
SCANNING IN USB MEMORY MODE
SCANNING TO USB MEMORY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
CHANGING THE EXPOSURE AND EXPOSURE
MODE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
MODE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
CHANGING THE RESOLUTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
AUTOMATICALLY SCANNING BOTH SIDES OF
AN ORIGINAL (2-Sided Original) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
AN ORIGINAL (2-Sided Original) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
SPECIFYING THE ORIGINAL SCAN SIZE AND
SEND SIZE (Enlarge/Reduce). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
SEND SIZE (Enlarge/Reduce). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
• SPECIFYING THE SCAN SIZE OF THE
ORIGINAL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
• SPECIFYING THE SEND SIZE OF THE
ORIGINAL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
CHANGING THE COLOUR MODE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
CHANGING THE FILE FORMAT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
ENTERING THE FILE NAME . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
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BASIC PROCEDURE FOR
TRANSMISSION IN INTERNET FAX
MODE
TRANSMISSION IN INTERNET FAX
MODE
SENDING A FAX IN INTERNET FAX MODE. . . . . . . 62
CHANGING THE EXPOSURE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
CHANGING THE RESOLUTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
AUTOMATICALLY SCANNING BOTH SIDES OF
AN ORIGINAL (2-Sided Original) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
AN ORIGINAL (2-Sided Original) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
SPECIFYING THE ORIGINAL SCAN SIZE AND
SEND SIZE (Enlarge/Reduce). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
SEND SIZE (Enlarge/Reduce). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
• SPECIFYING THE SCAN SIZE OF THE
ORIGINAL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
• SPECIFYING THE SEND SIZE OF THE
ORIGINAL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
CHANGING THE FILE FORMAT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
CHANGING THE SUBJECT, FILE NAME, AND
MESSAGE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
MESSAGE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
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CHECKING THE STATUS OF
TRANSMISSION/RECEPTION JOBS
TRANSMISSION/RECEPTION JOBS
JOB STATUS SCREEN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
• JOB QUEUE SCREEN AND COMPLETED
JOB SCREEN. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
• OPERATION WHEN A JOB IN THE JOB
QUEUE IS COMPLETED . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
• CHECKING COMPLETED JOBS . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
STOPPING A SCAN JOB BEING TRANSMITTED
OR WAITING TO BE TRANSMITTED . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
OR WAITING TO BE TRANSMITTED . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
GIVING PRIORITY TO A SCAN TRANSMISSION
JOB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
JOB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
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CONVENIENT FUNCTIONS
SENDING THE SAME IMAGE TO MULTIPLE
DESTINATIONS (Broadcast Transmission) . . . . . . 83
DESTINATIONS (Broadcast Transmission) . . . . . . 83
• BROADCAST TRANSMISSIONS THAT
INCLUDE INTERNET FAX DESTINATIONS . . . . 86
ERASING PERIPHERAL SHADOWS ON THE
IMAGE (Erase) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
IMAGE (Erase) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
SCANNING AN ORIGINAL AS TWO SEPARATE
PAGES (Dual Page Scan) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
PAGES (Dual Page Scan) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
SENDING AN IMAGE AT A SPECIFIED TIME
(Timer Transmission) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
(Timer Transmission) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
WHITENING FAINT COLOURS IN THE IMAGE
(Suppress Background) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
(Suppress Background) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
SCANNING BOTH SIDES OF A CARD ONTO A
SINGLE PAGE (Card Shot) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
SINGLE PAGE (Card Shot) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
SCANNING MANY ORIGINALS AT ONCE (Job
Build) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
Build) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
SCANNING ORIGINALS OF DIFFERENT SIZES
(Mixed Size Original) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
(Mixed Size Original) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
SCANNING THIN ORIGINALS (Slow Scan Mode) . 109
STORING SCAN OPERATIONS (Programs) . . . . . 111
FORWARDING A RECEIVED INTERNET FAX TO
AN E-MAIL ADDRESS (Inbound Routing
Settings) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
AN E-MAIL ADDRESS (Inbound Routing
Settings) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
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INTERNET FAX FUNCTIONS
RECEIVING AN INTERNET FAX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
• MANUALLY RECEIVING INTERNET FAXES . . 116
PRINTING FAXES RECEIVED TO MEMORY . . . . . 117
SENDING TWO PAGES AS A SINGLE PAGE
(2in1). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
(2in1). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
CHANGING THE PRINT SETTINGS FOR THE
TRANSACTION REPORT (Transaction Report) . . 121
TRANSACTION REPORT (Transaction Report) . . 121
• CHECKING THE ACTIVITY LOG (Image
Sending Activity Report) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
• INFORMATION APPEARING IN THE RESULT
COLUMN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
SENDING AN INTERNET FAX FROM A
COMPUTER (PC-I-Fax) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
COMPUTER (PC-I-Fax) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
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SCANNING FROM A COMPUTER (PC
SCAN MODE)
SCAN MODE)
BASIC SCANNING PROCEDURE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
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ABOUT THIS MANUAL
This manual explains the procedures for using scan mode, Internet fax mode, USB memory mode, and PC scan mode
on the machine.
on the machine.
Please note
• To use the Internet fax function, the Internet fax expansion kit must be installed.
• For information on installing the drivers and software cited in this manual, please refer to the Software Setup Guide and the
manuals that are provided with the expansion kits.
• To use the network scanner function, basic network scanner settings, server settings including SMTP and DNS server settings,
and destinations must be configured in the Web pages. Configure and store the settings as explained in this manual. These
settings require a knowledge of your network environment and therefore must be configured by your network administrator.
settings require a knowledge of your network environment and therefore must be configured by your network administrator.
• For information on your operating system, please refer to your operating system manual or the online Help function.
• The explanations of screens and procedures in this manual are primarily for Windows
®
XP. The screens may vary in other
versions of Windows.
• Wherever "MX-xxxx" appears in this manual, please substitute your model name for "xxxx".
• This manual contains references to the fax function. However, please note that the fax function is not available in some
countries and regions.
• Considerable care has been taken in preparing this manual. If you have any comments or concerns about the manual, please
contact your dealer or nearest authorised service representative.
• This product has undergone strict quality control and inspection procedures. In the unlikely event that a defect or other problem
is discovered, please contact your dealer or nearest authorised service representative.
• Aside from instances provided for by law, SHARP is not responsible for failures occurring during the use of the product or its
options, or failures due to incorrect operation of the product and its options, or other failures, or for any damage that occurs due
to use of the product.
to use of the product.
Warning
• Reproduction, adaptation or translation of the contents of the manual without prior written permission is prohibited, except as
allowed under copyright laws.
• All information in this manual is subject to change without notice.
Illustrations and the operation panel and touch panel shown in this manual
The peripheral devices are generally optional, however, some models include certain peripheral devices as standard equipment.
The explanations in this manual assume that a right tray and stand/2 x 500 sheet paper drawer are installed on the MX-1800N.
To further explain certain functions and uses, some explanations assume that additional peripheral devices are installed.
The display screens, messages, and key names shown in the manual may differ from those on the actual machine
due to product improvements and modifications.
due to product improvements and modifications.