Donal:

You mean you've run one scanner with several different scanning applications? Or you've run several scanners using one application?

The alias on the desktop points to an application rarther than a hardware device, even if it is just the driuver for that device. Appleworks includes a generic scanner interface for acquiring images using the TWAIN protocol. But it may or may not run on every scanner.

The memory problem is coming from either (a)in OS 9.x, the application actually needs more memory and can have more memory allocated to it. Or (b) the application is not appropriate for the OS level so it is acting as though it is a memory issue when in fact it is a problem in the version of the application.

I think one of those two.

Easy fix in either case.

A