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Basic Operations Placing Documents 1469-00R Place documents on the platen glass or in the feeder. Use the platen glass when scanning thick or bound documents such as books. You can load two or more sheets of documents in the feeder so that they can be scanned continuously. For information about the types of documents that can be placed on the platen glass or in the feeder, and information about the scannable area of a document, see Document Type(P. 646) or Scan Area(P. 647) . Placing Documents on the Platen Glass(P. 41) Placing Documents in the Feeder(P. 42) Use documents that are completely dry When placing documents, make sure that any glue, ink, or correction fluid on the documents has completely dried. To avoid paper jams Do not place the following types of documents in the feeder as this may cause paper jams: ● Wrinkled or creased paper ● Carbon paper or carbon-backed paper ● Curled or rolled paper ● Coated paper ● Torn paper ● Onion skin or thin paper ● Stapled or clipped documents ● Paper printed by a thermal transfer printer ● Transparencies To scan documents more accurately Documents placed in the feeder are scanned while being fed into the machine. On the other hand, documents placed on the platen glass remain in a fixed position while they are scanned. To ensure more accurate scanning results, placing documents on the platen glass is recommended. To scan tracing paper or transparencies To scan transparent documents (for example, tracing paper or transparencies), place them on the platen glass. Placing Documents on the Platen Glass 1 Open the feeder. 41