"Why Is My Epson Expression Scanner So Glitchy?"
I recently bought an Epson Expression 10000XL scanner to replace a dying Microtek. With the Epson's great reputation, I was expecting high-quality software -- hopefully better than the capable but finicky and fragile software that Microtek provided. I'm afraid I was disappointed. For those of you with Epson scanners, especially on newer Macs with Snow Leopard, here are some of the problems and disappointments I encountered, plus my own solutions for them. -- Epson Scan turned out to be less powerful than the Microtek software, and it has not been kept properly up to date. It hasn't been revised for Intel Macs -- it still needs Apple's Rosetta translator to run -- and it doesn't even know enough to keep its opening windows clear of the OS X Dock! But the real deal breaker was that color management is broken under Snow Leopard, as lamely acknowledged by Epson's own Web site, with no guarantee of a fix. The result is that what you see on screen is very differen