What bit depth are you using? 24 bpp is severe overkill. 8 bpp (grayscale)
is usually excessive as well. For most printed matter (halftone instead of
continuous-tone), 1 bpp at 300-600 dpi will do, though you might have to
tweak the thresholds a bit. What I've done in the past is scan grayscale
and use netpbm to convert to black-and-white. Multiple pages can then be
stuffed into a single TIFF file with lossless compression of some sort (such
as group 3 fax). A full page at 300 dpi is about 1 MB compressed, so this
should work out to something a bit less when compressed.
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