Tim,

When I have a bunch of plans to get scanned at one time I time I will take them to a Reprograrphics company as well. The default graphic file they scan into is Tiff. I asked if they used tiff for themselves for storing their scans vs pdf and he said that for black and white scans the tiff format offers the tighest compression with the ability to minipulate the scan directly.

Most of my scans from them average between 800k and 2meg at 400dpi. Staples scans everything to a server harddrive in tif format but the employees don't have access to that scan folder. They can only access that folderthrough the graphics program they use. After they open it up then they can save it to my flash drive. Only problem is the file size doubles at that point. The original scanhas a smaller footprint.

When I goto the Reprographics company I get the smaller original tiff scan. So I try to save up the plans cause the cost per scan goes down there.