Find a driver for Epson Perfection 1240U Photo scanner on Windows 10 64 bit
Epson doesn't officially support this scanner under Win10 64 bit. What to do? After searching around I found the solution myself. Please see below.
Solution 1:
I found a solution here.
(translated the following steps from german. Sorry if it's not exactly translated.)
- Search the Win10 64 bit driver for the Epson Perfection 2400 scanner
- I found "Epson Scan 3.0.4 17-Jul-2009 20.68MBs" and installed it. The installer asks for the scanner model. I only selected EPSON Perfection 2400.
- Connecting the scanner afterwards needs some manual help: Go to device manager and find the EPSON Perfection 1240. Manually install the driver from the context menu - Update driver... - Browse my computer... - Let me pick from a list...
- Select Imaging devices
- EPSON Perfection 2400
- Done
The scanner is shown as EPSON Perfection 2400 instead of EPSON Perfection 1240. But it works.
On the german epson support page there is also an update for the driver "EPSON Scan Updater 1.0 13-Jul-2018 0.72MBs". I also installed this afterwards with success. Probably the english version "Scanner Driver and EPSON Scan Utility v3.04A" has this update already included.