Wednesday, October 14, 2009
Windows 7 and Old Epson Scanner (Perfection 1200U)
I've had this scanner forever and works perfectly well and did so right up to Windows XP. I've now re-built my machine (following my disk crash, detailed in an earlier post!) with Windows 7 Ultimate and surprise, surprise the scanner doesn't work:(
Tried the latest software I could find, Epson TWAIN 5.53 IIRC but the installer falls over:( Did read somewhere that I could perhaps run it in XP compatibility mode....I did try that and Windows did report that it was working but then, following a re-boot, the scanner disappeared off the device list. Might clear things up and try again this evening....was too late to last night to think I was going to get anywhere with this so fingers crossed for later today!!
Never ceases to amaze me how long it takes to re-build a developer machine, even with a pretty rapid machine and everything to hand it takes a couple of man days to get things straight....it wasn't helped by the move to Windows 7 for sure but it was still a lot of time to squeeze in between family and work commitments....
Tried the latest software I could find, Epson TWAIN 5.53 IIRC but the installer falls over:( Did read somewhere that I could perhaps run it in XP compatibility mode....I did try that and Windows did report that it was working but then, following a re-boot, the scanner disappeared off the device list. Might clear things up and try again this evening....was too late to last night to think I was going to get anywhere with this so fingers crossed for later today!!
Never ceases to amaze me how long it takes to re-build a developer machine, even with a pretty rapid machine and everything to hand it takes a couple of man days to get things straight....it wasn't helped by the move to Windows 7 for sure but it was still a lot of time to squeeze in between family and work commitments....
