Thank you - I understand now but it took me a long time. The instructions are terrible. Suggestion that someone in QA should try out a focus group and see how long the average person takes to figure out how it works. And when I searched here, it's easy to confuse CentreWare with CentreWare Web. Perhaps it would be a good idea for the wonderful diagrams in the Quick Setup guide to actually show how to do everything you're speaking about. If not, it isn't going to be Quick or Set Up!!! ;)
Thanks for confirming the True Black guesswork. Searching the manual only shows the statement about coomposite black, which was a complaint that surfaced several times by other users. It appears that Xerox has fortunately addressed the issue of making every print True Black by default instead of per print dialog boxes.
Regarding the scanning, using Acrobat or Photoshop to scan makes it very easy to acquire images as you need them scanned with preset profiles - e.g. Color, Gray, BW, Two sided, etc. It also allows you to preview the scan immediately. I don't see any profiles on the scanner. This means that every time you want to scan something you need to run through the entire list of options in a multi-tiered menu to set up how you want to scan. If there were a couple of presets you could use it would make the process you describe sensible. More odd is the fact that if you do "Scan to" on the 6027NI, it DOES require you to have a USB cable because it will send directly to the PC. But for some reason if you're using Acrobat and connected via USB, it can't do the same in reverse with a local driver. Agreed, it's not as fast but the device MUST have presets for scanning.
Thanks for you refforts.