Victory! The Scanner Submits.

After an hour of experimentation, the scanner works if you disconnect it from the enormous programme that controls everything and just tell it to scan. At last, I can use the scanner without making an appointment at the library or paying £9 at SnappySnaps (shame on you, greedy fellows).
Here is one from the archives; the very poor quality is because it's scanned from an A5 comic. The original, which took 3 months to do, was thrown away by the then editor of the Imperial College magazine where I got it printed. He now appears regularly on the BBC and I still have a very small twinge of resentment every time I see him!