<x-flowed>Thanks for the info gary. I'm going to try this out. I'll scan a photo at 400 and then at 200 and print 8x10's from it to compare. I'm looking forward to trying this but unfortunately it'll be several hours before I can go home. At 01:37 AM 1/27/2000 , you wrote: >If you printed your original 1200 dots in, say, 10" of the 11" page, you >would be using about 120 of the dots per inch (dpi), which is a bit low, >although it would probably look fine to a casual viewer. If you increase >that to the 2000 dots you described, that would be 200 dots per inch, which >is a much better resolution and produces a very nice print. You may even >get a little more quality by going higher to 240 or 300, but the difference >wouldn't be as great. Beyond that, you probably couldn't see any difference >at all, except the file would be larger. - Please turn off HTML mail features. Keep quoted material short. Use accurate subject lines. http://www.leben.com/lists for instructions. </x-flowed>