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Mac Forum / General / Hardware / January 2005Problems with Epson Perfection 2580 Scanner
Hi all, I just purchases an Epison Perfection 2580 scanner for my PowerMac G4 (mirrored front, dual 867 Mhz, OSX 10.3.7), and it's just not working. I installed all drivers on the disk BEFORE connecting the scanner, and no go. I then downloaded some drivers from the Epson website and still no go. I rebooted between each attempt just to be safe. The light on the scanner stays white. I tried running the Epson Smart Panel software, but it just says "Please install the support twain drivers". In System Profile it does show an Epson Scanner connected. If it won't work I'll have no choice but to return it to the Apple store I bought it from, but problem is that Apple store is 2 hours away. I hate having to drive 4 hours (and waste $30 in gas) if it's not the scanner. Suggestions on anything else I can try? I'm still rather new to OSX so I'm not sure if there's something I'm missing. This is the first hardware device with drivers I've installed. Thanks, Ringo Here's a follow-up. It's still not working, but I can unplug the USB cable from the mac and the light on the scanner turns green. Plugging it back in the light turns white. I'm not sure if that means anything. Is anyone successfully using this scanner with OSX? Thanks, Ringo > Here's a follow-up. It's still not working, but I can unplug the USB > cable from the mac and the light on the scanner turns green. Plugging > it back in the light turns white. I'm not sure if that means anything. > Is anyone successfully using this scanner with OSX? Thanks, > > Ringo Okay another followup. I did get the scanner working last night after downloading another Twain driver from the Epson support site. I downloaded the driver and installed, then rebooted, but no go -- but I did it once more just to be sure (last resort) and after a reboot it worked good. The scanner seems to work good, though some of the colors are a bit washed out from film negatives. Also it appears the film part only does 4 pictures while most of my 35mm negatives have 5. I'm not sure how to scan in that 5th frame without cutting the negative. But all and all nice scanner for $140. RIngo |
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