3-5
Less than
5mm
More than 30mm
Top of the paper
Less than
3mm
More than 30mm
Feed direction
Top of the paper Read surface
• Read the following documents using the Flatbed:
- Paper with clips or staples.
- Paper written on with wet ink.
- Paper of uneven thickness (for example, envelopes).
- Paper with large rumples or curls.
- Paper with folds or tears.
- Tracing paper.
- Coated paper.
- Carbon paper.
- Paper smaller than A8 (portrait) size or wider than A3 size.
- Materials other than paper (for example, clothes, sheet metal, or OHP film).
- Photographic paper.
- Paper with perforations on the side.
- Non-rectangular paper.
- Very thin paper.
• Set documents on the ADF so that the curl of the leading edge does not exceed the measures shown
below.
• To avoid skewing, do not feed documents of different widths during the same batch.
2
Preparing the Paper
• Place the documents face down, with the top to the left as shown in A. (The long side is the top for
landscape mode and the short side is the top for portrait mode.)
• Holding both ends with both hands, lift the documents.
• Hold the documents tightly with your left hand and bend them as shown in B.
• Grip the documents tightly with your right hand, loosen the grip of your left hand, and straighten as
shown in C.
• Even up the feed edge of the batch of paper as shown in D.
NOTICE
Reduce the batch size of the documents if double feed or mispick occurs.
A
(For portrait mode)
A
B
C
Top
B
D
C