> That specific technique is a perfectly fine idea I don't know… This whole thing reminds me of "The King's Breakfast" by A. Milne. Is it so hard for scanner t

> That specific technique is a perfectly fine idea I don't know… This whole thing reminds me of "The King's Breakfast" by A. Milne. Is it so hard for scanner to make exact copy of a piece of paper? It doesn't sound like a rocket science, really. I don't want it to try and compress anything, to leave watermarks or whatever. If I feel I need a better compression — I'll use a separate tool (which Xerox can provide if it wants so), I don't want my sanner/photocopier even to try modifying image somehow without my specific request to do so. Maybe I don't understand real technological reasons of doing so… but then I really don't. I cannot think of any possible reason of such step being necessary. Except if it doesn't have enough RAM to store image as is, but that really sounds unlikely.