User Manual

Operation and Maintenance
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• Crop. The image perimeter is removed to allow the image to fit on the
film and print at the same scale as the anatomical area of interest.
An image might be cropped if it is too large to print on the selected film
size, and the size of the area of interest is important to retain.
CAUTION
:
If anatomical areas of interest are near an outer edge of the
image, they might be removed from the image when it is
printed.
• Minify. The image file is reduced by the removal of pixel data.
An image might be minified if the image size is larger than the media in
the imager. For example, a computer radiography (CR) image is
requested to print 35 x 43 cm at the imager with 8x10 in. (20.32x25.4
cm) film selected. The image is minified and printed.
• Scale. The image file is reduced in scale.
An image file is reduced in scale if it is sent from an image source with a
requested image size that is not supported by the imager. The full image
is printed, but the size of the image is reduced to allow it to print on the
media size that is closest to the requested size.