HP LaserJet Pro M1136 MFP

I recently (Nov 10th, 2011) bought the HP MFP 1136 Printer. It cost me around 9.8 k, the printer seems fine but the Read Iris pro software so provided is a trial version. Which means you cannot select the or edit the scan areas on a particular document. Also the printer takes a lot of time if you change the mode of certain operations like rotating a document, saving it in some other format like PDF, Word. Saving the document as a JPEG is missing. Unlike my previous very affordable HP PSC 1315 and all its drivers are available on HP's website, this one seems a bit fussy about certain tasks. I wonder why the company has adopted to such cheap marketing gimmick? The full version of Readiris basic software is around 120 Dollars (approx). Hope to find a better freebie online for the printer.