[publius911]

That really pisses me off! There is a workaround but it requires enough hours of work so that if you were paid minimum wage, you could buy a new scanner.

You think that smarts?

I worked for myself for 5 years in the late 90s and bought an HP large format inkjet printer.
Windows 95 era.

I still have it, but no one I know of ever managed to write the necessary software to use it with any subsequent Microsoft OS. Even if someone did, I doubt that HP still sells the cartridges than run the beast. It was a great printer-plotter, excellent resolution for anything, B&W or color.

[amigatec]

I had an HP printer with a double sided paper attachment. I was running it over a print server. The drivers from HP didn't work with it and HP didn't have any way to make it work. But at the same time I had a Linux box running and the driver worked just fine with it.

Go Figure.