JIMW Frankly I presently find little difference between Epson and HP. Previously HP decided to abandon Apple and withdrew all support for their printers. When Apple came out with OS X and regained some market share they reentered the market again but did not update any of the drivers for the older printers. Everyone who had older printers was forced to buy new ones in order to print with OS X. Epson has at least did not exit the market and then reenter it later, abandoning its older customers. It eventually update many of its older printers to OS X. However what both companies has done regarding ink cartridges has been predatory, anti-environmental and consumer unfriendly. They have done everything possible to discourage competition in this field, while trying to make their cartridges unreliable, and charging the maximum amount the market will absorb. Because of this, The amount of cartridge waste that builds up in landfills each year is enormous. HP's profitability is directly tied to selling ink, not printers or computers. I am personally convinced that HP's recent announcement to recycle computers for free via was to serve as a "shield" to deflect criticism about their refusal to allow third parties to refill their ink cartridges. Call my cynical but I am just waiting for them to play this card when critics ask them to back off their hard stance on ink cartridge recycling for the sake of the environment. Mind you, Hp is not alone in the ink cartridge issue. All the manufactures do it to a greater or lesser degree. So far Canon seems to be in the lesser category. In any case, now that they are affordable (in $500 arena), my next printer will be a color laser printer. They are much more cost effect to print with and don't suffer from the the cartridge recycle problems common to ink-jets. They are also more environmentally friendly for the same reason. Because of the history of the ink-jet manufactures, I will try to avoid buying a laser printer manufactured from one of these companies. I do not wish to reward them for their past transgressions. As for scanners, companies, tend to only update drivers for a couple of years and then abandon the model. I have a Perfection 1240U that I paid $350 for when it came out. It is an excellent scanner. Epson can out with an initial driver for OS X and a couple of pathetic updates and then abandoned it. I have also yet to find a currently supported OCR software for the Mac for OSX. Softscan seems to abandoned the Mac for all of its products(Omnipage & Textbridge) Last time I spoke to them about it, they "confessed" to me that their software was not completely compatible with the current version of OS X and they had no timeframe for an update. The sort of recommend that I not buy it as I might be disappointed, given my desire, for compatibiity, reliability, support, and full functionality. They have a history of doing this as they seem to be primary a Windows company with Mac seemly as an afterthought. I realize this has digressed a bit but I hope all will find some of the remarks useful given the other comments.
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