Hi, >It looks like you are getting the image data from scanimage on stdout captured >with the debug info on stderr. this makes me think that the file handles are opened/closed in wrong order: maybe this backend is using different indexes to access stdout/stderr streams. Bye, Yuri Dario /* * member of TeamOS/2 - Italy * http://www.os2power.com/yuri * http://www.teamos2.it */