My laser mfp 1815dn is reducing the size of the image of the document i am scanning. how do i get it back to scan and save a full page?

scan a copy to pc documents , save to word , use photo shop and reduce in size
print page and then re-scan

change print grey scale to 2 color.

An 8.5 inch wide document scanned at 200 dpi gives you an image that is 1700 pixels wide. This is almost enough to fill a fullHD TV screen at native resolution (1920 pixels wide) which is unnecessary detail. I would use any picture editing programme (many free ones available) to reduce the overall pixel width of your already scanned images by 50 percent. This will automatically reduce the 1MB image to 250k. If you can scan again, use 100 dpi to scan - the result is same; image will be half as wide (and long), and picture file size one quarter of the 200 dpi scan.

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I had exact same issue, could not scan in any size larger than Letter; changed Scan Default settings for paper size but made no difference. Based on dmf1984's suggestion I did same: went to Start -> Dell -> Dell Printers -> Dell Laser 1815dn -> Network Scan and changed Scan Paper size to Legal hit apply then tried scan again... problem solved

Hello,

When you save the scan select pdf from the pull down menu "Select Type of Document" in the Save Dialog.

Hope that helps.

Multi-function printers cannot scan and then e-mail the scanned image. They can scan and then fax a document.
You need to scan the document, then save the scanned image, open your e-mail program and create the e-mail then attach the image file (file attachment) to the e-mail before you send the e-mail.

after scanning one page .. do not save the page but choose "add another image /page option " and scan accordingly.. and save the entire document after you are done with the scanning of all the pages.

that should be because you scanned the pages separately, did you notice if the PDF document converted was the very last page of the 13paged document which you wanted to make a document from? if that's right, then you just only converted the last scanned page into PDF, to stick all the pages together, i recoment you treating them as images and using word to stick them all together with the "insert>image> from archive" adjusting the size of the image at 1 page and with each 13 pages do the same until you have a full document of 13 images in 13 pages then you can convert it into PDF

On Tech Support Forum (www.techsupportforum.com) "Chuckmg" first reported the problem then later posted a solution that he discovered. In part, he wrote the following:

"After studying the problem further, and doing some experiments, I achieved the desired results of importing the scanned images into MS Word, full-size and centered. For others who might run into the same problem, here are the steps::
1. Scan the document and get a preview image
2. Select only that part of the document which contains the desired image without margins
3. note the dimensions to be scanned, width and height
4. import into Word

o In Word 2003
• double-click on the image
• choose the Layout tab.
• For text wrapping, choose Square
• click on Advanced button
• center both horizontal and vertical alignments.
• Select the "Size…” tab
• make sure that the Scale is set to 100% for height and width.
• Click outside of image and continue.

o In Word 2007.
• right-click on the image and choose "Size…”
• make sure that the Scale is set to 100% for height and width.
• Select Picture Tools > Format tab > Text Wrapping > Square
• Click on down arrow under Position
• choose icon with the image in the center."


If you have not already done so, it is also helpful to use the File > Page Setup function to reduce the borders to 0.5". My next task is to figure out how to save these setting as default. Microsoft Word 2003 Help says:

1. Select the picture that has the attributes (attribute: An object or text feature, such as line fill or text color, that you can manipulate by using drawing tools and menu commands.) you want to use as the default.
2. On the Drawing toolbar (toolbar: A bar with buttons and options that you use to carry out commands. To display a toolbar, click Customize on the Tools menu, and then click the Toolbars tab.), click Draw, and then click Set AutoShape Defaults.

I followed the above steps, saved the document and even rebooted my PC, but my next scan to Word still comes out in its reduced size.

Best regards,
Bob J.