On Sat, 16 Nov 2002 16:26:46 -0700 (MST), you wrote: >HP just kinda sprung to mind as a Debian friendly entity Oh how I wish that were true! I'd be able to get my HP 3400C scanner working. If HP were truly Debian (or even just Linux) friendly they'd provide specs to Bertrik Sikken (bertrik@zonnet.nl) who's trying to write the SANE backend for it. Tim