--- xscanimage.c.orig	Sun Mar  5 14:44:52 2000
+++ xscanimage.c	Fri Feb 25 13:59:45 2000
@@ -872,8 +872,9 @@
 	    case SANE_FRAME_RED:
 	    case SANE_FRAME_GREEN:
 	    case SANE_FRAME_BLUE:
-	      fprintf (scan_win.out, "P6\n# SANE data follows\n%d %d\n255\n",
-		       scan_win.param.pixels_per_line, scan_win.param.lines);
+	      fprintf (scan_win.out, "P6\n# SANE data follows\n%d %d\n%d\n",
+		       scan_win.param.pixels_per_line, scan_win.param.lines,
+                       (scan_win.param.depth > 8) ? 65535 : 255);
 	      break;
 
 	    case SANE_FRAME_GRAY: