Re: [PLUG] mac os x scanner NOT printer

["William H. Magill" <magill@mcgillsociety.org>]

On Friday, February 14, 2003, at 03:09  PM, Fred K Ollinger wrote:
> Can someone please give a suggestion. Here's the problem. Scanner  
> worked
> flawlessly. The user upgraded (by herself, I wasn't there) to jaguar.
> Scanner doesn't work.

By the way... meant to ask...
When you say upgraded -- do you mean from 10.1.5 or from OS 9?

It's not surprising that a scanner that worked under OS 9 would fail to  
work under OS X. (Printers as well).

Other than that... after upgrading to 10.2.4 (which came out on Friday)  
I find that I can now scan using the Epson TWAIN driver with my Epson  
CX5200 - "All-in-1" printer copier scanner (USB) and Readiris Pro as  
well as via both Apple's image capture program  
(Applications/utilities). Since there doesn't appear to be anything  
involved with TWAIN in the upgrade, I suspect that I got caught on the  
classic unix conceit -- "you don't have to reboot when playing with  
hardware." This particular upgrade does require a reboot after  
installing a new kernel.

So, at any rate, you can down load the Epson TWAIN drivers from the  
Epson developer site...www.epsondevelopers.com ... which is off the air  
currently.

It appears that the 1650 is not supported by Epson under OS X. (Epson  
apparently doesn't consider it a "production" model any longer... the  
1660 being the current version. If you follow the links from the 1660  
to tech support to OS X at the bottom of the page (not the note at the  
top)... they have the 10.2 TWAIN drivers there... (no idea if this URL  
will copy, it is extremely long... [TWAIN driver v5.75a]

http://www.epson.com/cgi-bin/Store/support/ 
supDetail.jsp?BV_SessionID=@@@@0155216478.1045496017@@@@&BV_EngineID=ead 
cghgjgkkibfdmcfjgckidnk.0&infoType=Downloads&oid=14583&prodoid=21643925

ftp://ftp.epson.com/drivers/epson10588.sea.hqx

And for what it's worth, it appears that all of their supported TWAIN  
scanners use the same driver. (Epson apparently names files  
sequentially on their ftp site.)
T.T.F.N.
William H. Magill
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