In a message dated 5/11/05 2:58:16 PM GMT Daylight Time, pbp@archive-research.freeserve.co.uk writes: If the worst comes to the worst and you have to buy a new scanner I can't advise you on which one to go for, but I would say don't get an HP scanjet 3970, although the output is good, myself and a friend have both had problems with ours and the software is very slow to load up and run. Thanks, Peter, will bear that in mind. Pauline