Aye - Epsom, salt of the earth? I think not.

I found about 500 junk preferences, with names full of punctuation like swear words (err, here's one: [∂∞êÊøˇfi††~q|êË8è¿ö`øˇfl], in my prefs folder recently. It was AGES before I discovered the culprit - the Epsom scanner. It makes one every time I fire up Photoshop, apparently. You might be better off just buying a different printer. Tom