My own - extremely stupid - fault! I hadn't realised that I had to get a new cable for the printer! Having now bought a firewire 800 cable instead of stupidly imaging I could still use the firewire 400 cable that I'd had with older iMac, all is well and scanning perfectly. And - if it is not my imagination - quite a lot faster?!
Andrew On 6 Nov 2011, at 1:28 pm, Paul Owen wrote: > A few suggestions - > > Restart Mac > Restart Printer/Scanner > Ensure you have latest Epson drivers installed > Delete Printer/Scanner in Sys Prefs and reinstall > Try other Apps designed to work with Scanner - Preview, Image Capture, ... > > I used to have enormous problems scanning with my HP Printer/Scanner, just > as you describe, they went away when I upgraded to Lion and/or the latest HP > drivers. > > Paul Owen > >> From: andrew lancaster <[email protected]> >> Reply-To: <[email protected]> >> Date: Sun, 06 Nov 2011 11:07:35 +0000 >> To: Smug <[email protected]> >> Subject: [sussex_mug] "No Scanner selected" >> >> Hi. For some time the only way that I have been able to use my Epson >> Perfection scanner is through system preferences. It is under print and fax >> and clicking on the scanner name usually lets me open the scanner and work >> it. >> But thi morning, all I am getting is a message saying "No scanner selected" >> even though "Epson Perfection 2450" has come up to the right of the apple at >> the top left corner of the desktop. >> >> Any ideas how to get it working again? >> >> Thanks in advance, >> >> Andrew >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Sussex Mac User Group" group. >> To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB. >> > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Sussex Mac User Group" group. > To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB.
