Nikon LS-30 under XP ... "The scanner is not ready" message

[Ian Woodrow]

Does anyone out there have ideas about this one ?

I have a Nikon Coolscan III (LS-30) and an adaptec scsi card (exact type I
can't say just now as I am not at that PC).

Anyway, the fact is.... I installed XP and read about the need to get the
old ASPI layer for Windows 2000 in order for it
to work. This I had already done and tested the scanner which scanned fine.
This wasn't very long ago, and as far as I can
remember the only thing I have anstalled since is Photoshop Elements 6. Now
it is not showing up as a twain source. I've
tried VueScan (which is what I used before anyway... no change there) and it
tells me "The scanner is not ready". I don't
see it in IRFANview when I go to select a TWAIN source.

On boot it picks up and reports scanner type OK. Scanner when powered on
behaves as normal, doing its self check and
then steady light.

I've checked the ASPI layer to see if it has been replaced by the XP one by
something but the versions and file sizes are
exactly as they should be.

Any ideas ? Could it be something that Photoshop Elements 6 has
overwritten as part of the installation ?


Cheers,

Woody

 

[CSM1]

Does anyone out there have ideas about this one ?

I have a Nikon Coolscan III (LS-30) and an adaptec scsi card (exact type I
can't say just now as I am not at that PC).

Anyway, the fact is.... I installed XP and read about the need to get the
old ASPI layer for Windows 2000 in order for it
to work. This I had already done and tested the scanner which scanned
fine. This wasn't very long ago, and as far as I can
remember the only thing I have anstalled since is Photoshop Elements 6.
Now it is not showing up as a twain source. I've
tried VueScan (which is what I used before anyway... no change there) and
it tells me "The scanner is not ready". I don't
see it in IRFANview when I go to select a TWAIN source.

On boot it picks up and reports scanner type OK. Scanner when powered on
behaves as normal, doing its self check and
then steady light.

I've checked the ASPI layer to see if it has been replaced by the XP one
by something but the versions and file sizes are
exactly as they should be.

Any ideas ? Could it be something that Photoshop Elements 6 has
overwritten as part of the installation ?


Cheers,

Woody

I don't have cure, but I do have a trouble shooting procedure.

First download and install the free Irfanview and Plugins/Addons.
http://www.irfanview.com/

Open Irfanview, File menu, Select Twain source, Is you scanner in the list?
If your scanner is in the list, select it, Select.

Then File Acquire/batching scanning, try a scan.
If that works, you have a problem in Adobe Photoshop Elements 6.

I would re-install Photoshop Elements to see if that fixes the TWAIN
problem.

 

[Ian Woodrow]

I already tried it through IrfanView in case it was only Elements that
didn't like things. Nothing under the TWAIN source
at all. And with VueScan which I always used before it was saying that the
scanner is not ready, so it wasn't seeing it either.

I wonder if Elements has somehow screwed up TWAIN. I have an image I can
put back on to try again from there. The image
was taken before I put the scanner on and put the older ASPI layer on. It
worked then so I'll go back to that stage and then
install whatever I put on after that ... then try setting up Elements again.
See what happens.



Woody

 

[CSM1]

I already tried it through IrfanView in case it was only Elements that
didn't like things. Nothing under the TWAIN source
at all. And with VueScan which I always used before it was saying that
the scanner is not ready, so it wasn't seeing it either.

I wonder if Elements has somehow screwed up TWAIN. I have an image I can
put back on to try again from there. The image
was taken before I put the scanner on and put the older ASPI layer on. It
worked then so I'll go back to that stage and then
install whatever I put on after that ... then try setting up Elements
again. See what happens.



Woody

Have you tried re-installing the scanner software, especially the Twain
driver.

You may have lost the Twain driver somehow.

I had a old Acer scsi scanner that was hard to get to work in Windows XP.
If the software got messed up in any way, you had to clean out every part of
the software and remove the registry keys. Then reinstall from scratch.

 

[Ian Woodrow]

I'll try to do something with the TWAIN driver. Everything else
certainly looks normal. Scanner shows up
in the control panel and the Test Scanner comes back saying it tested
fine (although it doesn't seem to do
much and returns the answer very quickly).

I'll have to look up stuff on Twain as it's not something I've messed
around with (fixing wise, that is).



Woody

 

[CSM1]

I'll try to do something with the TWAIN driver. Everything else
certainly looks normal. Scanner shows up
in the control panel and the Test Scanner comes back saying it tested
fine (although it doesn't seem to do
much and returns the answer very quickly).

I'll have to look up stuff on Twain as it's not something I've messed
around with (fixing wise, that is).



Woody

You may want to read here.
http://twain.org/

You should be able to re-install your scanners software. TWAIN driver should
be included in the normal install.