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Epson scanners and TWAIN support in Photoshop
Authored by: ckgaparajita on May 04, '02 01:03:44AM
Hey, thanks for the tip! It turns out the Epson TWAIN driver didn't work for one reason -- the folks at Epson forgot to include the TWAIN Data Source Manager. Duh. The Canon installer installed one, that's why the Epson TWAIN driver started working. However, you don't need to install the Canon scanner driver to get the Data Source Manager. Here's how to get the Epson TWAIN driver working: 1. After installing the Epson TWAIN driver, point your browser to http://www.twain.org/carbon_dsm.htm 2. Fill out the form with any old name and email and submit it. 3. Download the SDK disk image in the page that follows after you submit the form. 4. Mount the disk image and double-click it to open it. Open "Carbon TWAIN SDK", then "TWAIN" within that. Inside that folder you will see a shared lib called "TWAIN Source Manager.Shlb". 5. Copy "TWAIN Source Manager.Shlb" to /Library/CFMSupport on your Mac OS X system drive. That's all there is to it! Note that the data source manager you installed is 1.9b3. You might want to periodically check back at www.twain.org to see if a more recent version has been posted. Happy scanning! :-)

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Epson scanners and TWAIN support in Photoshop
Authored by: Welles Goodrich on May 04, '02 05:44:36PM

ckgaparajita,

Thanks for your discovery and posting of this item. I has caused me some head scratching for several days. Your's is a perfect tip. My Epson scanner was recognized in less than a couple of minutes for the download and install time. Simple!

Welles



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Epson scanners and TWAIN support in Photoshop
Authored by: brettc on Jun 12, '02 07:38:01PM

Thanks for the excellent feedback on setup. I found that the TWAIN driver only seems to work with USB and not Firewire.
Performing the steps of installation just as described still required a "Restart" in order for it to be recognized. Some other weird message about a "copy in progress" came up until restarting which caused it to work.

Message displayed without USB attached:
"Cannot find the Scanner on the bus. Please ensure that it is switched on, ready to scan and the cables are attached correctly."

...Back to VueScan for Firewire support!
...Maybe next time!



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Epson scanners and TWAIN support in Photoshop
Authored by: baertech on Jan 19, '04 12:08:58PM

Thanks for the great info. Unfortunately, that link is no longer available, or functional. Do you have any advice on how to access these files another way? much appreciated, this has been driving my crazy!

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jbaer



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