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jennyjoan | 17:21 Wed 15th Jun 2022 | Technology

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Earlier I was given a loan of a leaflet for me to give back.

Just wondered I have Canon printer and can take photos - is there a way that if I took a photo of the leaflet I could have emailed it to somebody.

thanks

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Redhelen72

Yea and you don’t need a printer.
Depends on your device, take pictures, go to pictures click on pictures and then your options will come up, depending on your device.

Buenchico

The majority of inkjet printers have a scanning facility. Does yours? (i.e. has it got a lid, where you can place a document onto a glass plate when you lift it?).

jennyjoan

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yes - it has the lid then the glass thing - put the picture in - close the lid and out comes the picture.

sanmac

JJ, prior to scanning the item do you get a list of options including "Send To Email"? If so, click on this, scan the item and then open your email The scanned item should be there waiting for you to send it.

sanmac

It will be titled as a PDF document.

Buenchico

Assuming that you're using a Windows PC, turn the printer on and put the document to be scanned under the lid. However DON'T press any buttons on the printer.

Go to your computer and click on the Start button to access the list of programs on it. Look under 'Canon Utilities' and you'll probably see something like 'IJ Scan Utility' listed there. (Canon sometimes change things though, so what you see might depend upon the printer model that you've got).

Open IJ Scan Utility. If your document is A4 size you don't need to alter anything, as that's the pre-set size for document scanning. If it's smaller thoigh, click 'Settings' and then 'Document scan'. Change the Paper Size setting to what it to what you want it to be and then click 'OK'.

Click the 'Document' button to start scanning the leaflet. Once the scan has completed, you'll then see 'Scan' and 'Cancel' buttons. If the leaflet has more than one page, move it in the scanner so that the second page is face down on the glass and click 'Scan'. Keep doing that until every page has been scanned. Once every page has been scanned, click 'Cancel'.

Unless you've changed the default setting, the scanned document will have ended up as a PDF file in your 'Documents' folder, with a long filename that's got the date in the middle of it. (e.g. looking at the scans in my own 'Documents' folder, I can see one called 850004393952-20210605-137013857520.pdf).

Go to wherever you send your emails from (whether that be a website or a dedicated email app) and create a new email to the person that you want to send the document to. Click the 'Attachment' button, which is often a paperclip icon. Navigate to 'Documents' and double-click on the long filename. Then, when you send your email, the leaflet will be attached to it in the form of a pdf document.

Buenchico

Sanmac:
'Send to email' only works when there's a dedicated email app (such as Outlook, Outlook Express, Thunderbird or the Windows Mail app) associated with it. It won't work where someone accesses their email account via webmail.

jennyjoan

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on canon

this is what it says - SYMBOLS

symbol - network
symbol (like a television screen) direct

i

spanner&spade (together)

A

b

c

symbol of a page - ok

symbol of a red world

squarish thing - black

greenish thing - colour

that's all folks on the canon TS3150 canon

jennyjoan

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chris I'd have to read that over and over again. but thanks all the same

jennyjoan

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i turned the printer off and then back on again - a flashing light keeps on at B and a static light at C - I haven't touched any buttons - only the ON button

sanmac

Buenchico, when I scan an item, after clicking on "Send To Email", I next open Outlook Express on my desk top computer and the scanned item is sitting there as a PDF attachment. I then add the address of the recipient and send it.

jennyjoan

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sanmac - I don't have send to email on the actual printer

Buenchico

Sanmac:
These days, the vast majority of people don't use email clients, such as Outlook Express. Instead they log into their email provider's website to send and receive their emails. 'Send to email' doesn't work with 'webmail'.

Jennyjoan:
Firstly, couple of minor corrections to my post above (because I've just scanned something to remind me about how it works).

Once you've finished scanning your document, the button you need to tell your computer that you've completed your task isn't marked 'Cancel'. It's 'Exit'.

Also, the file name for your scanned document won't be in the format I indicated above. It will be something like 'IMG_20220615_0001.pdf'.

However the main thing that I don't seem to have successfully got across to you is that (apart from turning it on), you shouldn't be touching any buttons at all on your printer. Everything is done on your computer, using the Canon IJ Scan Utility.

Redhelen72

If you have an iPad you can scan the document and send in the email without the printer!!

calmck

I think jj recently got an Ipad

calmck

Jj if you have an IPad open Notes. Press the camera icon. Press scan document save it. It will be in your photos. Open your email and write new one then add the scan/photo as an attachment

sanmac

Buenchico, I'm really surprised to hear that the majority of people don't use Outlook, Gmail etc nowadays. Anyway, JJ, I hope that you find a way of sending your document.