{"id":617,"date":"2007-12-10T21:00:05","date_gmt":"2007-12-10T21:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/blog\/?p=617"},"modified":"2014-08-04T16:55:32","modified_gmt":"2014-08-04T16:55:32","slug":"leopard-1051-appears-to-have-broken-my-epson-scanner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/2007\/12\/10\/leopard-1051-appears-to-have-broken-my-epson-scanner\/","title":{"rendered":"Leopard 10.5.1 Appears to have Broken My Epson Scanner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In one of my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/blog\/?p=572\">early Leopard posts<\/a> I was happy to report that my Epson scanner was working perfectly. However, yesterday when I went to scan it wouldn&#8217;t work. It kept telling me there was an error communicating with the scanner. I checked the connections and all seemed normal. The only real change there has been on the system since the last time the scanner was used was the update to 10.5.1. I can only conclude that that&#8217;s what broke it.<\/p>\n<p>Regardless of who is to blame I did eventually find a solution. First, go to the Epson site and download and install the latest drivers for your scanner, the description should explicitly say that it supports Leopard. Then reboot. It doesn&#8217;t tell you to but I couldn&#8217;t get the scanner back into life without a reboot. At this stage I found that the Epson Scan utility wouldn&#8217;t even launch. However, the TWAIN drivers themselves do work so you can scan using Preview.app. I&#8217;d never used Preview to scan before and I have to say I&#8217;m impressed with the interface. You can scan from within Preview by going to <code>File -&gt; Import Image ...<\/code>.<\/p>\n<p>I have to say I&#8217;m a little disappointed with Apple over this, 10.5.1 was supposed to fix things, not break them!<\/p>\n<p>[tags]Hardware, Scanner, Apple, OS X, Leopard, Epson[\/tags]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In one of my early Leopard posts I was happy to report that my Epson scanner was working perfectly. However, yesterday when I went to scan it wouldn&#8217;t work. It kept telling me there was an error communicating with the scanner. I checked the connections and all seemed normal. The only real change there has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[12],"tags":[460,462,26],"series":[],"class_list":["post-617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers-tech","tag-hardware","tag-operating-system","tag-os-x"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7t9xK-9X","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=617"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7501,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617\/revisions\/7501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=617"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}