Epson Scanner Twain driver

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October 30, 2018
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My issue involves CS5.1 and the Epson expression 10000 XL graphic arts scanner. I have recently been unable to import the Epson scan driver in Photoshop. It stopped working about 3 weeks ago. I've tried searching for Epson driver updates and downloading Twain plug ins from Adobe.

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Correct answer gener7

Twain technology is basically 32 bit and meant for Photoshop's 32 bit (Program Files x86) version, not the 64 bit one.

It's basically discontinued technology, but if you still wish to have the Twain function, Vuescan will work.

Trial it out here: VueScan Scanner Software for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux

TheDigitalDog

Inspiring

Go to Epson and download the free Epson Scan (standalone) driver. TWAIN is dead.

Author “Color Management for Photographers" & "Photoshop CC Color Management/pluralsight"

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Participating Frequently

Well it's not dead for me. MeIt works a dream as previously mentioned.

D Fosse

Community Expert

Yeah, but you're stuck with software from the previous century to run it. TWAIN was never developed for 64 bit applications.

It might have lived if it was necessary, but it never was. TWAIN wasn't a "scanner driver", just an interface. All TWAIN ever did was call the native scanner driver from within Photoshop. But then people discovered that the native driver actually worked more efficiently outside Photoshop, because you didn't have to tie up Photoshop while the scan was running. Which could take ages for transparencies and negatives.

Just use the Epson driver. That's what TWAIN does.

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J.225223166r0a

Participating Frequently

I am using Photoshop 7 on a 64bit HP Win 10 PC specifically to scan from my Epson DS-50000 using the Twain option. It works fine for me using Epson Scan 2 software. All features work but I sometimes it reverts back to default scan which means I just have to set it back to my saved setting for the session. Not really a problem.