Well having fixed the scanner software installation with my OKI MC342 I like it even more.
The scanner utilities are really neat!
When you select 'Start scan' in the panel applet you are offered a straightforward scan or save as PDF or save to folder. Each of these can be configured from the applet to specify destination directory, scanner options, etc.
In addition you can add new scan types so you can, for example, add a 'Scan to Tiff' if you want.
By default the basic scan squirts the scan into the Gimp, scan to PDF saves the PDF and then fires up the default PDF viewer, etc.
It's nearly all written in Python too so if one really wanted to change things radically it wouldn't be too difficult.
All in all I'm very pleased with it now, I was fairly happy before I got the scanning to work from Linux, now it's well nigh ideal.
It is rather big but the price from eBuyer (£171 inc shipping) seems pretty reasonable for an all singing, all dancing, all-in-one printer, copier, scanner, fax machine. It prints duplex (of course) and has an ADF for the scanner and fax which also does duplex.