Not long ago, your options for distributing the fruits of your labor were limited. After typing text into a word processing file and sending it to the printer, you'd dash from the printer to the copy machine, kill a few trees cranking out hard copies, then finagle your way through the obstacle course of your building, leaving a literal paper trail dotting your colleagues' chairs.

Then, you'd wipe the sweat from your brow -- and start on your next document.

That was then, but today we've entered the world of full-fledged electronic distribution: faxes, modems, E-mail -- and Hewlett-Packard Co.'s new network scanner, the ScanJet 4Si. Compatible with Novell NetWare 3.1 and later...