Agreed - my son has fitted a continuous system to his Epson - works fine.

I use HP myself, and agree with Arkie that although the printer is fine, the HP software is painful to use, particularly if you want to scan several items at a sitting. I have TWO different HP printers and guess what - two different software packages.
And on Vista, the printer has installed itself at least 11 times. Whenever I plugged in the USB lead, it seemed to install again, and never knows which one to use. That's probably Microsoft's fault, but it means I usually use my XP laptop for most scanning.