Hi Dan Thanks for your thoughts on it I have been experimenting today at various resolutions from 300 up to 2400 At 2400 it takes 4 minutes to scan one frame Down to less than a minute for 300 All the above was without all the correctional options ticked There are real differences between the 300 and 2400 scans, the 300 scan looks OK at first sight and would probably do quite OK for showing to others, but zoom in and the detail is very apparent in the 2400 and lacking in the 300 I just thought I would try a frame with digital ICE and backlight correction at 2400 Its first estimate was 19 minutes ! How much this is influenced by my rather dated computer is another matter It seems its going to be a long business Nivard Ovington in Cornwall (UK) > Nivard, > > I have scanned a bunch of various kinds of images: photos, computer > generated images and drawings. > > My experience tells me that the format used to save the scan is most > important > > I am now using a Brother MFC 495CW all-in-one for my scanning. It gives me > the option of choosing > B&W or Color and setting the resolution.