The scanner has 4 quick-access buttons, for one-touch scanning, copying, creating e-mail attachments and creating PDFs. The scanner also has user-programmable buttons. The copy button scans the document and sends it to the printer which prints out a copy. There is a photo-film button that scans the image and puts it in an image-organization software. An image-editing program such as Adobe Photoshop can crop an image or flip it, if it is upside down.
A flatbed printer scanner copier fax can scan in black-and-white mode, grayscale mode, color mode and twin mode. The scanner allows light to pass thru the object and captures the object on the bed. You have to line up the image on the bed, and close the lid before scanning. You’ll see the image preview in the software. There are trays for slides and negatives, and there may be a transparency adapter or unit.