Hi Fred C and gwpriester,

Under normal circunstances I would try using OCR as you suggested (never used before but heard of it), but I am scanning some old documents and the original old "defects" on the document (background and text) are suppose to show up on the final print. I need to keep the final print as original as possible to the original document, the only difference just a bit more readable. Also I will need to reduce the size of the originbal documets to fit in my Photoshop layout.

I think I will try to scan as a TIFF at 300 dpi as gwpriester suggested and see how it goes.

Let me know if you have any other suggestion now that you have a bit more information about my project.

Thanks very much Fred C and gwpriester!
Andy