I bought an Epson photo scanner for just this purpose -- mine has a max resolution of 2400x4800. Although the DPI appears to be adequate, as someone else posted, the actual execution is problematic. One issue is the focus plane of the scanner -- for transparencies, it's slightly above the platen, and it's hard to get a non-mounted transparency to the correct height. Even when I'd position a portion of the fiche at the correct height, the quality of the scan was below what was visible when looking at the fiche on a cheap viewer ... it was a disappointment. (One issue, I believe, is that the tranparency illuminator is non-collimated.) It's possible to get a pretty good quality final product with a LOT of tweaking in Photoshop, but unfortunately you can't apply the same set of tweaks to each image -- it's all done by eye, page by page. The bottom line is that the transparency scanner is pretty good for slides but not so great for fiche. Actual fiche scanners first enlarge the image and then use a more standard scanning system to get an image at a "real" 200dpi or 300dpi or whatever it is you want. They get really nice results. They're also really expensive. Service bureaus vary wildly in cost. I forget the pricing but the best deal I found when I was looking at this more was a company in India that would do the scans and then mail back the original fiche along with a CD-ROM of the scans. Norm