This topic explains how to image a plate with Rock Imager 2. You have two options: If you are using barcode labels on your plates, then follow the instructions on this page. If you want to image a plate that does not have a barcode label, please see Instant Imaging.
Place the plate in any available slot with the label facing towards you.
Tell Rock Imager to scan the barcode.
Choose from the following options:
To image an entire plate with the default imaging settings, on the Imager menu, point to Image, and click Plate(s).
To image an entire plate with the imaging setting(s) of choice, on the Imager menu, point to Image, and click Plate(s) Using. Rock Imager will display a dialog box that asks you to select available imaging settings.
To inspect your plates well-by-well or drop-by-drop without taking images, go to the Live Image tabThe Live Image tab is a sub-tab of the Imager tab. It is the tab that displays by default when you open the Imager tab. To find the Live Image tab, go to the Imager tab (top-left of your screen), and look for the tabs at the bottom-left of your screen. and use the manual navigation controls.
To image a specific drop with the default imaging settings, on the Imager menu, point to Image, and click Drop.
To image a specific drop with your choice of imaging settings, on the Imager menu, point to Image, and click Drop Using.
If you have tagged certain drops as interesting in Rock Maker, you can opt to image only those drops by going to the Imager menu and selecting Interesting Drop(s) in the Image menu to use the default imaging setting.
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Point to Image, and click Interesting Drop(s) Using to use a custom imaging setting.
When your plates have been imaged at least once, you can view the images in Rock Maker.
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