SureScan System User Guide
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For slides that have a scan protocol mapped to their design, the scan protocol is assigned
in the Slot Table, and the slot State changes to
Ready for queue
.
For slides that do not have a scan protocol mapped to their design, the scan protocol remains
empty and the slot State remains “Present”. Assign a scan protocol, as described in
or change protocol scan settings”
. For more information on the Scan Control program main
window, see
“Scan Control Program Window Reference”
For information on how to map scan protocols to slide designs, see
You can add slides to the cassette while a scan is in process. See
Step 4. Set or change protocol scan settings
The first time you set up to scan a slide, select a scan protocol to use. See
on page 25. Once the slide is scanned, the program remembers that scan protocol and
assigns it to all slides with the same microarray design. You can change these assignments later.
You can also manually set scan settings for a selected slide.
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For each slide in the slot table, click the Scan Protocol and select a scan protocol to use for
scanning the slide. See
2
(Optional) For a selected slide, in the scan settings pane, change one or more scan settings to
use for scanning only that slide. See
“Changing Slide Scan Settings”
The current scan protocol settings are displayed for each selected slide in the right pane of the
Scan Control software main window. For more information on these settings, see
Step 5. Add slides to the scan queue
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In the Scan Control main window, click
All to Queue
to add all slides in the slot table with a
State of
Ready for queue
to the scan queue.
A confirmation dialog box appears. Click
Yes
to add the slides to the queue.
Or
In the Scan Control slot table, click the State cell for the first slide to scan and click
Add to
Queue
.
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For each additional slide you want to scan,
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Click the State cell and select
Add to queue
first
to add the slide to the top of the scan
queue.
Or
NOTE
Once you add a slide to the scan queue, you cannot change its scan settings.
To change the scan settings, remove the slide from the queue.
To add a slide to the scan queue, its State must be
Ready for queue
.
