--- scanimage.c.orig	Sun Mar  5 14:44:49 2000
+++ scanimage.c	Fri Feb 25 13:59:11 2000
@@ -710,7 +710,8 @@
     case SANE_FRAME_GREEN:
     case SANE_FRAME_BLUE:
     case SANE_FRAME_RGB:
-      printf ("P6\n# SANE data follows\n%d %d\n255\n", width, height);
+      printf ("P6\n# SANE data follows\n%d %d\n%d\n", width, height,
+              (depth > 8) ? 65535 : 255);
       break;
 
     default: