There's not much point in printing at a higher resolution than the scan. I'm not familiar with the Umax 300P. Is that 300x600 intrinsic resolution, or interpolated? You almost certainly want any interpolation or dithering turned off, because it will de-sharpen the image. There's also not much point in using grayscale unless you're scanning photos; if the text is B/W, scan in B/W. It saves a lot of memory/filespace, and has a better chance of losing the background clutter. That's why photographers copy documents with very high contrast "line" film, which basically comes out black and white with no shades in between. You'll probably want to retouch the images to get best results (obliterate any remaining clutter, and/or fill in any missing pixels), and you may need to adjust the scanner's contrast or intensity setting(s) to get best results. The optimum settings will probably vary slightly between documents. Also, don't use JPEG compression, unless you're only compressing by relatively small amounts. JPEG is a lossy compression system; the compressed-and-then- expanded image is not the same as the original; detail *is* lost. GIF or TIFF is better. All this is a bit general, but is based on my own experience. Once upon a time I was a photographer (for a printing business) and I use a small desk scanner myself, for faxes and assorted images. More often than not, I end up either retouching the images, or rescanning with different settings, and quite often pass them through image enhancement software afterwards. -- Pete Peter Turnbull Dept. of Computer Science University of York