straypuss shared this with us in microsoft.public.word.newusers:
Thanks Suzanne, you were a great help, also that was a fast reply
too. may be you can help on this problem that i found on the scanner,
if i scan an doc, then either paste it into paint or word then print
it. The printed backdround of the copy comes out as grey instead of
white. But if i scan straight to the printer, the doc comes out ok
with a white background. Any thoughts on this.
Most scanner software "cleans up" (can't describe it better) the scan
when scanning to printer - at least my HP scanner software did. I could
change a few settings about brightness, contrast, etc which resulted in
white(r) or grey(er) backgrounds.
When scanned to an image, you should do some experiments with changing
the contrast and the brightness of the scanned image before printing.
Your favorite image manipulation will do the job (I would recommend The
Gimp -
http://gimp-win.sourceforge.net/stable.html) but even with Word
you can do some basic manipulation. Right click on the image and click
on the second item from below. Don't know what it's called in English.
Anyway, there you can do something about brightness & contrast.
EXPERIMENT to find out what you need.
Good luck!
