Can a scanned document be retrieved after the fact?

Make sure the Lexmark Pinnacle Pro901 printer driver is installed on your computer. If you have the install disc that came with your printer, just insert it to your computer hard driver and follow the instructions on your computer screen. You can also the download the printer driver from the Lexmark website at http://bit.ly/d3ftso. Select your operating system > download > execute the file. Again, just follow the instructions on your computer screen.
Note: The install disc contains the Lexmark OCR scan software necessary for scanning documents for editing and saving them as PDF files. The downloaded driver does not contain the OCR software.
To scan to your computer using the printer operator panel:

1. From the home screen, navigate to Scan to Computer: Scan > Scan to Computer

2. Touch USB-Connected Computer or the name of a network computer. The local or network computer is the destination that will receive the scan. Wait until the printer has finished downloading a list of the scan applications available on the selected computer.

3. Select an application (in your case your email), and then touch Accept.

4. Select the color, resolution quality and the original image size. If necessary, touch Accept each time you make a selection.

5. Press the start button to start scanning. The scan is complete when the application you selected in step 4 opens on the destination computer, and the scan appears within the application as a new file.

To scan to your computer using the printer software (Lexmark Printer Home):

For Windows:

1. Click Start.

2. Click All Programs or Programs, and then select the printer program folder from the list.

3. Select Printer Home.

4. Choose your printer from the printer drop-down list.

5. Click Email, and then select Photo, Document or PDF.

Note: You can select Document only if an OCR application is stored on your computer. Scanning starts and the scan progress dialog appears.

6. When the scan is finished, a new e-mail message is created with the scanned document automatically attached.

7. Compose your e-mail message. Note: If your e-mail program does not open automatically, then you can scan the document to the computer and then send it through e-mail as an attachment.

For Mac:

1. From the Finder desktop, double-click the printer program folder.

2. Double-click the printer Center to open the All-In-One Center.

3. From the "What is being scanned?" menu on the main screen, select a document type.

4. From the "How will the scanned image be used?" menu, choose To be viewed on monitor/web page.

5. From the "Send scanned image to" menu, choose an application.

6. Click Scan.

7. Retrieve the scanned image from the application, and then send it through e-mail as an attachment.

I hope this information has been helpful.

Yo should save first the file into the hard drive , and then print. If you want to save faster , copy the text into the notepad.

Use your scanner to scan the document or picture. The scanned file will we saved to your hard drive with a name and in a derectory that you specify. Then use your E-mail program to create new mail and click on insert, file attachment and browse to your scanned file, Then click on attach and when you send your E-mail the file will be sent with it.

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No it does not. Contrary to some stories out there the copier does not store copies in the memory or on the hard drive. It can store documents that are scanned and stored onto the hard drive. It can also temporarily store backed up print jobs that are stored before being printed such as in high traffic installations. But the answer to your specific question is they are not stored in memory. This is especially true of a somewhat older model like your IR8500.
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Check in your recicle bin. Otherwise, you have to scan it again

Hello,
Install the Control Center CC3, if it is not already installed. Connect the MFC-5460CN to the computer. Open the CC3 software. Click the Scan button. You will have the choice to Scan to Picture, Scan to OCR, Scan to E-mail, or Scan to file.
You click to E-mail. The MFC scans the document and opens the default E-mail program (Outlook, Outlook Express), attaches the scanned picture and all that is left for you to do is to supply the E-mail address where the document is to be sent.

If you have problems doing that, scan to file then open the E-mail client to create a new message and attach the file you scanned.

Hope it helps.

Here is a link to the users guide to your printer. After it opens go down to the basic scanning section. It will show you how to scan to a file. If it is a document be sure to select the .pdf file type. Also make a note of where it is going to save the file on your computer (most of the time it's My Document > My Scans) So now that you have scanned the file to your computer, open up your email and start a new email. Find where it says "attachement" and click on it. A box will pop open asking you to browse for your file. Just go to where you saved the file and click on the file and hit OK. Your document will be attached to the email.

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I would suggest copy the file ot yoru desktop and open it from your desktop.

sounds like the scanner/copier engine(same device, by the way) has gone way UnHappy. time for a service call or a recycling effort on that machine..it's a major component..and buried deep inside machine.

That means the file has been messed up during transport of some time when it was not being used if you smart enough to have a back up file or two copies of that file just copy and paste or save twice again.