Marian Boury writes: 
 I bought a Gateway computer 1 1/2 years ago when the XP was first out. At 
 that time I also bought an Epson Perfection 1250 scanner. Every time I want to 
 copy something, I get an error message that the scanner is not connected. At 
 first I thought it was my kitten that had been laying on the cords, but I have 
 fixed it so he can't do that and I still get the error message. After I pull out 
 the cord and reconnect it, it works fine (unless I have many, many pages to 
 copy). 
 Also, I have to copy using the color button or the pages are reduced to less 
 than 1/4 the size of the page and I can't find anywhere in the book to change it 
 so it is full sized. 
 Help, Please! 
 Hi
 Marian, 
 My sense (from the reviews I've read) is that you've got yourself an inexpensive 
 and buggy scanner. I recommend: 
 
   Download the latest drivers for the scanner. Uninstall the old ones before 
 installing new. 
   Make sure you're current with Windows...