Epson scanner not working

[Cuddly Duddly]

I have just installed Vista and my Epson Perfection 1660 scanner won't work.
Epson tells me it is "not supported" and drivers are not available for this
set up. They suggested I try to get them from their Canadian site (I am in
the US). I also tried the UK site, at someone else's suggestion, and that
didn't help either.

Seems to me this might be a bit like Ford Motor Company ceasing supplying
parts for cars over 4 years old when they bring out new models.

Can anyone help me to save a few bucks by getting this thing to work?

Thank you for any help.

 

[Margaret]

I have just installed Vista and my Epson Perfection 1660 scanner won't
work.
Epson tells me it is "not supported" and drivers are not available for this
set up. They suggested I try to get them from their Canadian site (I am in
the US). I also tried the UK site, at someone else's suggestion, and that
didn't help either.

Seems to me this might be a bit like Ford Motor Company ceasing supplying
parts for cars over 4 years old when they bring out new models.

Can anyone help me to save a few bucks by getting this thing to work?

Probably not. I have a 1650 and will keep using it on XP SP2 until
Vista is stable enough that I can use it as my main machine. Only then
will I shop around and buy a new scanner. One thought, though. Have
you looked into Vuescan by Hamrick Software?

http://hamrick.com/vsm.html

It's not cheap, but it's a great piece of software, says it runs on
Vista, and supports ~700 scanners, most w/o Windows drivers. Yours is
on the list. I use Vuescan with my old SCSI film/slide scanner, and
I've used it with my 1650. Well worth thr $$ IMNSHO.

Regards,

Margaret

 

[Jason Knutson]

I have just installed Vista and my Epson Perfection 1660 scanner won't
work.
Epson tells me it is "not supported" and drivers are not available for
this
set up. They suggested I try to get them from their Canadian site (I am
in
the US). I also tried the UK site, at someone else's suggestion, and that
didn't help either.

Seems to me this might be a bit like Ford Motor Company ceasing supplying
parts for cars over 4 years old when they bring out new models.

Can anyone help me to save a few bucks by getting this thing to work?

Thank you for any help.

Drivers from the UK site work fine for me in 32-bit home premium:
http://esupport.epson-europe.com/Ge...3E74B076EF6274488D07696B26DDE5906A97E857C4D1D

 

[Cari \(MS-MVP\)]

Try Vuescan, it might just do the trick...

http://www.hamrick.com/

Please let us know if you have success.

 

[Margaret]

Drivers from the UK site work fine for me in 32-bit home premium:
http://esupport.epson-europe.com/Ge...3E74B076EF6274488D07696B26DDE5906A97E857C4D1D

Hey, thx for this. Definitely will come in handy. Why is it that US
sites rarely have up-to-date drivers? I've had to go to overseas sites
for motherboard BIOSes, etc.

Regards,

Margaret

 

[Cari \(MS-MVP\)]

Because until we told them this morning, Epson US didn't even realize the
problem existed and has done for quite some time! Now that they do, we hope
the websites will be somewhat more uniform in driver availability.

 

[Guest]

tried this?

http://esupport.epson-europe.com/So...3E74B076EF6274488D07696B26DDE5906A97E857C4D1D

 

[Cuddly Duddly]

Thank you to all who have helped. I'll let you now how it all turns out.