Epson scanner

Please help.

Trying to start my Epson perfection V500 photoscanner results in:"Epson scan doesn't start; use the troubleshooting Assistant..."
In de taskbar appears an Epson-scan-button TWICE (?)

The scanner start with: C:\WINDOWS\twain_32\escndv\escndv.exe

Hardware control indicates:

Windows cannot start this apparatus because configuring data in register are incomplete or damaged. (Code 19)

Uninstalling and reinstalling does not solve the problem.
Loading an older regestrybackup also didnot help.

mjberkx

I saw this on Amazon. It might help.

Initially I was disappointed in this scanner. I was getting artifacts in my scans: posterizing, strange banding (like an old dot matrix scanner) and scans above 2400dpi didn't seem to have any additional detail. For a while I was convinced the optical resolution was 2400 instead of the advertised 6400.

Eventually I discovered that the Epson software sucks. I would recommend only using the Color Restoration (which seems to be first rate oddly) and Digital Ice options. Everything else seemed to ruin the photos upon close inspection. You will need to make any adjustments in photo shop.

In addition to this, the software is difficult to use. It has an option to save your scanning settings -- but it doesn't work (on OSX at least). I have to set the option manually for every scan. When you preview your scan, sometimes it only selects one photo when you mean to change the settings for them all. Between these two problems, I find myself scanning photos with the wrong settings on a regular basis. As a SW Engineer myself -- this is inexcusable.

Some people have complained the scanner is slow -- it is -- but if you compare specs it seemed to be in line with other scanners of this price.

Despite these problems I give the scanner 4 stars. I own a Canon scanner and the software is *far* worse *and* the image quality sucks, so Epson wins by default: Marginal Software and excellent image quality seem to be a winning combination.

DR