Sandy, you may also want to consider a refurbished EPSON 2400 available directly from EPSON for only $99. This is a very heavyduty scanner that costed approx $250 when it was first introduced on the market. Here is the URL: http://www.epson.com/cgi-bin/Store/consumer/consDetail.jsp?BV_UseBVCookie=yes&oid=31061924 Refurb units are also available on current models: 3170 for $159 instead of $199. 1670 for $79 instead of $99. Guido Guido D. Corona IBM Accessibility Center, Austin Tx. IBM Research, Phone: (512) 838-9735 Email: guidoc@xxxxxxxxxxx Visit my weekly Accessibility WebLog at: http://www-3.ibm.com/able/weblog/corona_weblog.html Lisa Hall Sent by: 05/25/2004 04:58 PM Please respond to bookshare-discuss To <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> cc Subject [bookshare-discuss] Re: scanners Hi Sandy, I use Openbook 7 with a new scanner from Lexmark 1100 series. When I bought the scanner, I wasn't sure if it would work with Open Book. After installing the scanner, I had to tell Open Book that I was using the original driver that came with the scanner. To my surprise it worked. I haven't had any problem with it. I don't know if Kurzweil 1000 would work with that scanner. I looked on the Kurzweil site and did not see my model number list. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sandra E. Smith" <sandy.knits@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 2004 6:30 AM Subject: [bookshare-discuss] scanners I thought perhaps some of you veteran scanners could advise me here. I have a computer I bought a few months ago with Windows XP; I am running Window-Eyes and Open Book, the latest version, whatever that is. The old scanner I have is just not working. I want to buy a new scanner. Is there one any of you would recommend? Is there such a thing as a scanner that also is a printer? This may opening up a can of worms here, but I am wondering if any of you have recently used scanning programs other than Open Book and what your experience has been. I am, to say the least, not pleased with Freedom Scientifics' tech support, and would like to get away from that company. If you would prefer to write to me privately about this, please do so at sandy.knits@xxxxxxxxxxx Sandy