I recently built a new PC and use the 64 bit version of Windows 7. I had no trouble finding drivers for my printer, and various other hardware, but my Epson Perfection 610 wasn’t recognized and Epson’s website didn’t list it as Windows 7 compatible, even in the 32 bit flavor. Fortunately, there’s an undocumented way to get it to work.
After scouring Epson’s website and not locating a driver, I found a program calles Vuescan that did work with the scanner, even in Windows 7. Unfortunately, it costs around $40, which would pay for half a new, cheap scanner. I kept searching and found out that the Epson Stylus CX3200 All-in-one driver will run the scanner without problems!
- Download the Stylus CX3200 driver here and expand the files out to your hard drive.
- Plug your scanner in and let windows 7 complain that it can’t install it correctly.
- Open your Device Manager and right click the unknown device it has detected.
- Click Update Driver and browse to the location you placed the driver files.
- Choose the CX3200 driver and tell Windows you want to install it anyway, even though it isn’t known to work with your hardware.
Any TWAIN compliant scanning software should work fine now with your Epson Perfection 610!
Tried the above fix on my Windows 7 Home Premium O/S and it works OK.
Its a bit fiddley to do but after a 22Mbit download from Epson & some perseverance I
finally managed to get my Perfection 610 to scan once more. Many thanks to the contributor.
I also tried the above fix, but couldn’t get it to work.
I went through items 1 – 4, and I navigate to c:\epson\epson12258….
but I wasn’t given the option of selecting the CX3200 driver.
Am I doing something wrong or have I missed something ???
Hope you can help..
John C
Hi John, I also did the same thing and got the same result. Also tried installing with the setup file but had no luck there either.
Someone has posted a much simpler solution that has worked for me;
It is here;
http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/234322-34-epson-perfection-scanner-vista-driver
and reads;
Open device manager, right-click on ‘Perfection 610′ to enter driver update, and click “Browse my computer for driver software”, and click “Let me pick from a list of device drivers on my computer”, and simply choose the driver(epsion stylus cx3200 series). I think it may work on Vista also.
No downloads, the driver is already there!
It works! Thank you very much!
I tried the Toms Hardware trick and W7-64 bit knows it’s not a CX3200 and won’t install the driver.
I got this to work on Vista 64-bit. I tested with the WIA option in PSD. It did not work with the Twain option for some reason.
Thanks! It works fine under windows 7 64bits. I am delighted as I won’t need to buy a new scanner.
@deez. You have to choose manually the driver and force its use. If you let Windows decide, it won’t install.
Thank you very much, finally I can leave Windows XP behind if I need to make a scan
thanks very much, this is indeed a great help
thanks very much