Oh man I went to a friend's birthday celebration the other day and got to talking about art with his sister, when one of his relatives commented that a friend of theirs recently cleaned out a barn full of crap, walked off, and came back and handed me a practically new scanner for free!!!!!
So not only now do I not have to try and fiddle with my HP piece of shit, I've got a new Canon LiDE 60 which apparently works just fine!
This was just a test scan of an old beat up comic I never got around to finishing.

But still... NEW SCANNER! USER FRIENDLY! FUCK YEAAAAAAAAAAH!