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From: Steve@dstrip.demon.co.uk (Steve Rencontre)
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Subject: Re: Scanner help wanted.
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In article: <1994Nov14.095056.6800@leeds.ac.uk>  men5rcl@sun.leeds.ac.uk (R C Lodge) writes:

> I recently got a LOGITECH handheld scanner viz SCANMAN 256 which I use with a 486sx 33mhz and 4mb memory, pc. I installed the software no problem, but 
when I scan an image, the screen graphics become monochrome. Questions:
> 
> 1) Is this normal?

Yes. If you don't have a true-colour display, the only way to display 
256 shades of grey is to reprogram the colour palette and get rid of 
the colours that Windows normally uses.

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