Scanners with minimal/simple drivers and software for iMac/Lion

Just been told that my old Canoscan 8400F color flatbed scanner will not work with my new Lion installation.
Don't mind too much since I always hated the convoluted and error-prone (system-changing?) Canon scanner drivers and toolbox software.
Which Lion/iMac-friendly color flatbed hardware (for simple image, document, and perhaps OCR) systems would anyone here recommend, please, which also has minimal system installation - that is, where the driver is a single file that can be uninstalled etc?
Thanks!

Brother drivers are included in OS X so you won't (shouldn't) have any trouble setting it up.
Image Capture works a charm, but I only scan occasionally for sharing the odd file - no complaints.
I used to work in graphics for a living so I also have VueScan, although I can't remember the last time I had to use it.
No problem scanning books, although I sometimes have to apply a bit of gentle pressure if it won't lay flat.
As I said before, very happy with my Brother (haven't got any sisters ) - and a couple of friends/neighbours with Macs seem happy with their's (after I suggested they get one - honest, I don't work for them ).
Also, if you want to use it via wifi it was a breeze to set up compared to the Lexmark and HPs I've helped people with.
If you do get one and once it's installed it's worth doing software update as SU doesn't seem to offer any driver updates if it thinks you haven't got a Brother (or any other make for that matter) unless it sees one on your network.

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sir
we have purchased the computer compaq presario model cq3230IX around five year ago. the computer came with complete diver setup and xp operating system preloaded. and we were not given any cds of drivers or any other cds
now my system is formatted and XP SP3 is installed however the system is running without network, audio video drivers
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Below is the link to the product specs page for your PC.
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You must have had it special ordered because according to the specs, it came with Linux, not XP from the factory.
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First install the Intel chipset driver and reboot.
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I have a virtual machine running Windows XP to use some old software that isn't compatible with Windows-7. I also would like to print to my HP C7180 all-in-one printer from the XP VM. I downloaded the entire 520MB app and driver package, and then just the 72MB driver package, but both give me errors stating:
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When Sony will update drivers and software for VPCF23EFX to be compatible with win 10 ??

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How to download software and drivers for HP Pavilion dv6-3127TX. Unable to search the product in help and support center.
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When is Lenovo planning to update their drivers and software to 64-bit versions for Windows 7/8?

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