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Hey thanks for the reply. I have set my scanner to 300dpi now but cant set the quality of the Jpeg :/ Im using the software that came with the scanner. It has some great features like auto rotate so when you scan one side of the mag it flips the next scan 180 degrees automatically. Saves alot of time. The size like you say are huge too. Cant seem to edit that either, there just a set size depending on whether 300 or 600 dpi. I prefer Fireworks to photoshop so may see if there is some batch processing there and Ill drop a full mag on it to hopefully re-size them all with one press. Still in the tiff format I can them compress them to 100% Jpeg as I know FW can do this. Thanks for the help, Ill keep you posted :] EDIT - Patch processing to 60% size of the original tiff got an entire mag down to under a gig - excellent :} Batch processing is a couple of clicks to do a whole mag to in FW. Not sure about other software's but FW is easy enough if anyone is looking for something to do this. EIDT2: - And then batch process Jpegging at 100% gets the full mag down to half a gig. Superb!!

Hi everyone, I have just bought a Plustek OpticBook 3600 to back up many of my aging mags that have great sentimental value. This scanner is superb and takes as much pain as poss out of scanning. I want the best results I can, only want to scan everything once. Have my settings as follows DPI = 600 File = TIFF Now I know from working with images before a TIFF is an uncompressed format and 600 dpi better than 300 dpi but the file sizes are huuuuuuge. 80 meg for a page is going to get out of hand by the time I have scanned 5 mags. Thats 13 pages to a gig!! So, what are the minimum setting for a sentimental fool like me? I can use 600 or 300 dpi and can use Jpeg, BMP, TIFF or PNG. Please can someone advise me here. I want the best scans I can get at a smaller size. I understand Jpeg sacrifices quality for compression as does MP3, as long as its not too noticeable I will be happy. Any advice greatly appreciated,