Hi Jim I scan lots of pages and hve learned a few tricks. 1. make sure the page isnt folded. That happened to me once and I feld stupid. 2. fiddle around with brightness setting. sometimes the nimver needs to be increased and sometimes it needs to be decreased. 3. there is a setting on my program that says white on black. That takes care of colored writing yellow on blue for example. what book are you trying t scan? If I can get it I'll take a look. my local library is closed until later this month. That's why I haven't been making offers to scan. Take care Good luck Jim. Anastasia --------------------------------- Be a better Heartthrob. Get better relationship answers from someone who knows. Yahoo! Answers - Check it out.