Getting grey background on documents when copying

When i copy a document there is always a grey shaded background instead of a white background. apart from the fact this looks bad, it is using up all my black ink. can't seem to find the right button to hit to sort this out. can anybody help?

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If you are getting a grey back ground, this means you have the wrong setting- the scanner is seeing a 'photo' image. look at your controls for TEXT or LINE

Posted on May 09, 2007

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