Printer postscript

Well, I was relieved that I got my printer/scanner installed in time for my important tax document to arrive, which happened today. But I ended up having to hook my printer up to my laptop after all, because the bare-bones generic drivers and scan software that installed in my desktop don’t let me save a scan as a document instead of an image, let alone combine multiple pages into a single document that I could upload to the tax prep site. (The image files were too big to upload.) Oh, well. At least hooking up the laptop worked, though I wasted a lot of time and effort before I resorted to it.

I’m tempted to have another go at installing the latest version of the printer software from the manufacturer’s website, but it didn’t work the first time I tried it. I suspect, though, that that was because I tried to install it before I uninstalled the older version. But what if it clashes with the generic driver I’ve got now? I hesitate to try it and risk screwing things up again.