Windows 10: New Dell XPS: Cannot add Epson Perfection 2850 Photo scanner! No drivers available Anyware!

Have a New Dell XPS 8950 desktop with Windows 11 OS: Cannot add my Epson Perfection 2850 Photo scanner! No drivers available Anyware! When trying to add a scanner through add devices, get this message: The drivers for this device are not installed. Code 28 There are no compatible drivers for this device. To find a driver for this device, click Update Driver.There must be some way to add drivers into Windows 11 OS to support a scanner! Searching for driver support through Microsoft Support has proven to be a very frustrating merry-go-round with no way to even find anything to download!Also am

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Find a driver for Epson Perfection 1240U Photo scanner on Windows 10 64 bit

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.

 

Epson Perfection 1660 Scanner

What is the make and model# of your scanner?
Epson has the Perfection 1660 driver to download if you have an Epson Scanner. Epson Perfection 1660 Photo | Perfection Series | Scanners | Support | Epson US

 

Epson Perfection 1660 Scanner

The Scanner is a Epson Perfection 1660 Photo
I am on windows 10 64bit I have had the computed for 5years and there has not been an affical driver for it but I found a thread on a forum like this where a person used a different Epson driver, I downloaded it and the scanner worked 100%, I am looking for that driver.

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