This time I ran with correct (I hope) command arguments to produce a colour image: scanimage -f PPM --mode col > img
The result was just the first 3 characters of a header. The output of hd img is as follows: 00000000 50 50 4d |PPM| 00000003 I repeated the scanimage command without arguments as follows: scanimage > zzz.pnp As before, the result, zzz.pnp was a good greyscale image. I have tried other 3-character image formats with similar results and also with omitting the -f argument. It seems that Alexey's driver is failing to deal with a colour image. Regards, Bertie
