I work in digital imaging for part of my living, and do work for a number of archival projects as well. 600dpi@1bpp is insane. 300dpi is usually fine, if there is a prob increase the image depth. Jim On Monday, September 10, 2001 5:17 PM, Chuck McManis [SMTP:cmcmanis@netapp.com] wrote: > > > This topic has gone over the list a few times, from experience, the > "best" > scans are 600 DPI black and white compressed into PDF files. This > achieves > exactly what is needed, get the data without a lot of excess. The > KA655 TM > that is on the DFWCUG site appears from the PDF to be 100 DPI/8 bit > (note > that's 800 bits per inch net and the result is harder to read) I'll > add > scanning this manual to my list. They don't appear to have come up > with a > 'standard' for their scans. That would help too. > > --Chuck >