Mick Maguire wrote:
> 
> Well, I have tried pretty well every thing I can think of, scanning at
> different resolutions, adjusting the dpi of the image from everywhere
> between 150 and 1200 dpi and the results always seem to be about the same.
> The printer driver is set to Best quality and the paper type is set to be
> photo paper. I tried both options of raw printing or scaling and I always
> end up with exactly the same problem. The image of the scanned output is
> magnified from what you actually get. I would say that it is probably up to
> 10x what you see on the paper. Perhaps I am just hoping for too much from
> this old 600 dpi printer.

Just a thought:  If there's a "dithering" option in printer setup, turn
it off.
This is often coupled with a 256 color palette (a holdover from the old
days,
circa 1990 for the Mac and 1994 for the PC).  Dithering is really ugly.

-Lon
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