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I would say that it depends on the nature of the document; you may indeed want to use the "line art" or "black and white" setting. This can work well for, say, black text printed on dark purple paper. With typical scanner software, if you chose the "black and white" setting (that is, not color, not greyscale, but literally black and white), you can set the white point -- that is, the brightness threshold below which everything is set to black, and above which everything is set to white. With my pretend black-on-purple document, the purple paper will be just a tad lighter than the black text; when the threshold is set just right, it'll count the paper as white and the text as black. (A little too far one way and the whole page will be black; a little too far the other, and it'll all be counted as white.) Oh -- you'll probably also want to increase the resolution to a relatively high value when scanning in "black and white" or "line art" mode. For typically-sized fonts on printed pages, something like 300dpi is often appropriate. After scanning such a document, it's often quite useful to convert to greyscale in roughly a 3:1 or 4:1 (linear) ratio, if the resulting image is intended to be viewed all-at-once on a computer monitor. If you're trying to re-create the original document's look, you could try to be smooth and re-fill the white with the original document's paper color... depends on what you're after, I suppose. The classic primer on scanning is Wayne's http://www.scantips.com/ -- it's *amazing*. -Greg ------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe? mailto:type3-request@vwtype3.org, Subject: unsubscribe