Epson Perfection 1660 Photo Scanner

[John Meade Snowling]

I have been using the above scanner on Windows 98 for spme time now, but have now gone over to Vista Home Premium and cannot install it properly I have the CD's that went with the scanner when I bought it, can somebody please help me to get it installed please, bearing in mind that I am not a computer wiss kid, well not even a kid actually, by a long way. Thankyou in advance.
Regards John

Epson's web site has updated driver(s) for Vista. Look under Drivers and
Support. When you find the right driver, click on it's name and it will
give instructions for installing it.

Go to the following site and download and install the vista driver:

TWAIN 5 Driver v5.71A
Click on the (+) next to it for installation instructions and notes.
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I enclose links to the Epson website for Vista drivers and utilities for
your scanner. Hope that this is of assistance to you.

(32-bit)

(64-bit)

I am contacting you with a request. We have lost / misplaced the set-up
CD that came with the Epson 1660 scanner. Would you be willing to burn
us a copy and send it to us?

Looking forward to your reply

You'll need to check Epson's site for Vista drivers. They originally
claimed they wouldn't support my 1600 Photo Scanner under Vista, but they
did finally release an updated driver and scanner application for it.

The Windows 98 drivers/CD won't do you any good at all under Vista.

I have a 1650 Photo scanner that I finally managed to get working in my
Vista Home Premium. First, I found a Vista compatible driver for the
scanner on the Epson site. Downloaded and installed the driver. No real
joy at what came up--- a very poor unusable imitation of the
scanner----despite the Epson comments not to use the installation disc that
came with the scanner I figured there was nothing to lose. Put in the
original CD and went through the install process and it actually worked.
Later on when trying to put in some of the patches and upgrades it got all
screwed up again. Eventually, I went through many iterations of trying all
kinds of stuff, finally ending up uninstalling and reinstalling. The only
patch that now refuses to work is the one to upgrade the Copy function.
Good Luck--it wasn't fun

Vista is not the issue, because I made the upgrade of number of
computer in the office to XP. However from the downloaded Twain drivers
from the Epson website, the oldest works, but the functionality in XP of
the scanner user interface, when importing through Photoshop, is not
anywhere it is in Windows 98SE. The Epson 1660 is a combined flatbed and
slide scanner, and under XP it doesn't even give me an option for
slides. The user interface in 98SE included many options for colour
correction, scanner options etc. all absent under XP, as well as Smart
Panel.
That's why I would like to go back to the original installation CD.

Original OP system was ME. I had all the same (similar) issues in trying to
get the scanner installed with the Vista OS. As I said in the earlier
post--it wasn't easy. I did a number of installs/uninstalls. Went to
Device Manager, found and deleted the scanner several times. Installed the
Twain Vista Driver and eventually managed to install Smart Panel (Original
CD's) and its upgrade with no problem. As noted, the scanner now works as
it did under ME except for the Copy function upgrade. When I have some time
(and frustration level is low) I'll give it another try--BTW, my scanner
also is a flatbed with slide and negative scan capability. If you are
persistent, one of your tries will work

Thanks MLD for your encouraging words. I will try again. I have found
some patches on the microsoft site. See if that will work.

There IS no help. If you can't find drivers, you need to find a new
scanner.

It's just that simple.

[Sue Boley]

That driver is for 32-bit only. I am having the same problem as Snowling. We both have 64-bit Vista. There are 64-bit drivers on Epson's UK site, but I can't get either of them to work although one did install without error messages. Any suggestions?

I tried this about six months ago. Get drivers from . I never got the scanner working with Vista 64-bit although I downloaded the files offered and tried everything I could think of. I see now that the Twain driver for 64-bit offered on the URL above is different from the files they offered previously so may try it again. I currently run the scanner with another Vista (32-bit) PC using the 32-bitTwain driver I downloaded from . The successful 32-bit Twain file is named epson12242.exe. The files offered at that time for 64-bit were only epson318534eu.exe and epson318535eu.exe. Perhaps the Twain driver epson31879.exe available now will actually work with 64-bit.

Then what is the Twain driver on this page for? See
The file is called a Twain driver for Epson 1650 and it should work also for 1660. The Copy Factory files are the same ones I found 6 months ago on this website for Epson 1660. Also, the Twain driver then offered for Epson 1660 but for use on 32-bit Vista was not the same one as the file now offered on this URL which has identified my OS correctly as 64-bit. There was no Vista 64-bit Twain driver last January on this page. Unfortunately my scanner is currently being used with another PC. It is a Vista (32-bit) PC using Twain driver epson12242.exe. When I get the scanner back I'll try my 64-bit Vista PC with this Twain driver (epson31879eu.exe) now downloadable. If anyone does it sooner than I can, please let us know if it works.

[Stubai99]

Hi sorry to drag this up again but can anyone help me to get the epson 1660 scanner working with Vista 64bit? I downloaded the drivers that dwarf suggested on 09-01-2008 but when i tried to run it it said the version of software installed is incompatable with the update... this is only the copy factory software and not a driver... I cannot find a 64bit twain driver Please help thank you

In Epson's FAQs they state:

"Q: Does Epson have Microsoft Vista 64-bit drivers available for my scanner?
A: Currently, we do not have Microsoft Vista 64-bit drivers available for
your scanner. However, you may be able to use the VueScan software from
Hamrick; it supports Microsoft Vista 64-bit. Please visit the Hamrick web
site for more information. " their supported scanners list shows the
1660. Try the free trial and if it works purchase the program.

There are no 64 bit Twain drivers, the Twain Group (not part of Microsoft)
will not write any.

The OP said Vista 64 bit OS. Epson does NOT have a driver for that scanner
that will work with Vista 64 bit. The link I posed is the only currently
known work around for the 1660 scanner under Vista 64 bit.